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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Moderator's Pub
 
2007-01-30, 20:45

I once visited this place in Sitka, Alaska. It's a rehabilitation center for injured birds of prey, mostly eagles.

Sometimes an eagle will grab a salmon from the water that's so heavy that the eagle will get dislocated wings from trying to carry such a heavy fish.

The eagle will just sink to the ground and die if not rescued, because it can't fly anymore.

Eagles are plentiful in Sitka. I enjoyed touring the raptor rehab center, because they rehabilitate and return to the wild so many eagles! They are quite magnificent birds.

(Many have been shot by idiots who just want to see if they can hit a bird in flight. Grrrr.)

https://www.alaskaraptor.org/AboutArc/Index.cfm
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