Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:26:01 -0400From: NBNature Listserv
On December 2, 2002 me, Alain Clavette and Roger Guitard were lucky enough to observe interaction, over the water off Anchorage provincial park on Grand Manan, between an immature Golden Eagle and an adult Bald eagle and it was evident (to me at least) that the Golden was the dominant bird.
The Bald Eagle would try to get the upper ground (in a way of speaking) by climbing higher but the Golden would rapidly cut him off and would consistently stay over the Bald. There flight style was also quite different with the bald having that slow, labored flight that we know well while the Golden always seemed to be going faster and with some purpose.
All of these details looked to me like the attributes of a superior hunter and in any case with the two big guys going at it over the water betweenAnchorage and Wood Island the duck were sure keeping a low profile.
Roger Leblanc
Moncton
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That must have been fun to watch! I've watched osprey outmanoever eagles ,too. Bald eagles are designed for other things, I guess, they don't gain height quickly.
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