My father works at a farm supply store and today he had a farmer in from Lac La Biche that had a rather interesting story...for years he has had 2 eagles that live nearby and during calving time would feast on the discarded placentas from the corrals...last year with all the snow he had his cattle calving away from the corrals, in the trees, etc... he said he lost 13 calves to Eagles? All calves taken were from heifers and he had personally witnessed one of the two eagles drive off the heifer while the other would fly in and pick up the newborn 50lb calf(must be a smaller breed of cattle) and fly to "tree top level" and then drop the calf to kill it...the two eagles would then go in and eat at the dead calf? I don't know if he saw this once and yotes or wolves got the other 12 and he figured the eagles were responsible for all or he saw the eagles do this numerous times? My questions are: is this possible? I know Eagles are huge but can an Eagle fly a 50lb animal to tree top level? and if so where was the video cam? That would be amazing to see!!!
I don,t believe it for a second. I used to have cattle as well. My cattle always calved in the corral but there were bald eagles nearby. Never had a problem.
When my dad told me this tonight I immediately called BS...just wanted to see if anyone here has witnessed an Eagle pick up anything larger than a good sized fish....
I have witnessed a baldy half lift half drag a dead calf some distance. I do not believe an eagle could actually fly with the load of a calf. a golden, I have witnessed fly with a 30lb lamb. it dragged it down hill till it gained speed to attain flight.
i agree sounds like a story from a certan somenone and should be in the hunting/fable section ..
although this being said i saw a video of golden eagles somwhere in south america? pickin up baby wild goats off cliffs and droping them to their death to eat . soemone with superior googler skills could easy find these videos /
Eagles Killing Calves?
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