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Post by oldgreengrolar on Jun 18, 2023 9:18:09 GMT
Feel free to post accounts on interactions between vultures and eagles.
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Post by oldgreengrolar on Jun 18, 2023 13:18:18 GMT
 Male Eurasian black vulture and female Steller’s sea eagle. |
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Post by oldgreengrolar on Jun 18, 2023 13:19:50 GMT
 An Unlikely Pair LIKE OLD FRIENDS meeting for lunch, a cinereous vulture and a juvenile Steller’s sea eagle pose for a camera trap set along a game trail in the Sikhote-Alin Reserve in Russia. While both cinereous vultures and Steller’s sea eagles are winter visitors to this corner of the southern Russian Far East, it’s possible that these two individuals had never encountered a member of the opposite species before. Steller’s sea eagles move south in winter from far northern places in Russia like Magadan and Kamchatka, but are relatively uncommon this far south. Cinereous vultures come east mostly from Mongolia, and are rare this far north along the Sea of Japan with no more than a few dozen records in the reserve since the 1960s. This might explain the eagle’s submission to the vulture — it had perhaps never seen another raptor so large — so it waited patiently for the vulture to finish eating before moving in to feed. What makes this encounter all the more remarkable is that it was captured completely by chance: when a deer was killed (or simply died) along the game trail, this camera happened to be in the perfect place to document the interactions of this unlikely pair. blog.wcs.org/photo/2018/03/30/an-unlikely-pair-camera-trap-vulture-eagle-russia/ |
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Post by oldgreengrolar on Jun 18, 2023 13:21:57 GMT
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