Bird Schools Fox on Dinosaur Ancestry
Posted by Richard Conniff on December 6, 2013
Not long ago, I posted pictures of an eagle taking on a Saiga deer. This time it’s an Australian wedge tailed eagle carrying off a fox. These birds also have a reputation for attacking hang-gliders and paragliders.
Check out the legs on this female taking off from nest:
It kind of makes me think of Rodan, “the giant monster of the sky,” in the 1956 science fiction movie. Rodan was a flying dinosaur that could destroy everything in its path with beak, talon, or sonic boom.
Or, uh, wait, I’m a wildlife writer. What I mean to say is, “Gee, what a beautiful bird.”
John S. Wilkins said
I was once in a glider around 1500 ft (in Victoria, Australia) and a wedgetail eagle sat in the thermal opposite us, and spent a good few minutes checking us out before he decided we weren’t a threat to his space.
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Richard Conniff said
I had a similar experience, though not so threatening, one time flying in a Piper Cub down the Rio Grande, with roseate spoonbills off our wingtips.
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