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Identifier: birdlore17nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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big enemy the Coot dived, butsoon had to come up to breathe, at which the Eagle instantly swooped. Againand again the helpless bird dived and swam under water, but the Eagle wasever on the watch, and in the end they went away through the air together. That the most expert of diving birds cannot always escape was suggested bymy finding a Pied-billed Grebe in a Bald Eagles nest upon one occasion;but it is just possible that the Grebe had been picked up dead, for Eagles arenot averse to eating carrion. Thus I once found two of them feeding on the carcass of a dead horse incompany with a flock of Vultures, and on another occasion discovered fourEagles eating some dead rays which fishermen had left on they . beach. The old story that they sometimes carry off children must be dismissed with the statement that it is highly improba-ble—for one reason, because babies small enough to be carried by an Eagleare not usually left unguarded in situations likely to be visited by these birds. (404)
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BALD EAGLE Order—RaptoresGenus—Hali,€etos Family—BuTEONiD/E Species—LEUCOCEPHALUS National Association of Audubon Societies The Bald Eagle 405 I have never known them to attack domestic animals other than lambs, butC. J. Maynard says: While encamped on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, near the mouthof the Suwannee River, I heard one morning a loud squealing among the half-wild hogs, of which there were an abundance in the place. I found that threeEagles were attacking the newly born progeny of an old hog, and she wasendeavoring to defend them. The little grunters, of which there were several,had taken refuge under the top of a fallen tree, which, however, afforded themonly partial protection; thus the Eagles could see them, and, tempted by thedainty titbits, would swoop downward and endeavor to grasp the little black-and-white pigs in their talons, but were constantly repulsed by the anxiousmother, who bravely defended her offspring, at the same time giving vent tosome

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