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charisstomaTwo Bald Eagles Have ‘Adopted’ a Young Red-Tailed Hawk
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eagles-red-tailed-hawk?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=77f3000a43-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-77f3000a43-63124913&ct=t(Newsletter_06_13_2017)&mc_cid=77f3000a43&mc_eid=dbc2f66964
A pair of bald eagles there are raising up a red-tailed hawk—normally a rival species—alongside their own three chicks, the Vancouver Sun reports.
A heartfelt attempt to help out some neighbors? Probably not. The eagles likely kidnapped the baby hawk, intending to feed it to their own children, raptor specialist David Bird told the Sun. When it survived the trip and started peeping, they just started feeding it instead. (This theory is supported by retroactive photo evidence, which indicates that there were once at least two hawk chicks in the nest.)
A video by Christian Sasse shows the brave youngster, which is smaller and scruffier than its adoptive siblings, gleefully taking food from the bloody beak of one of its parents. Observers say the hawk is more than able to fend for itself—and that at times, the eagle chicks even seem to defer to it, the Sun reports.
Long video and the photographers don't see the hawklet yet at half way through. Ah from comments it does show up, 35.30. And it's crop is full per the commentary. It'll fledge in estimate 7 -10 days and eaglets later in July. This was recorded mid June.
Hancockwildlife.org
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eagles-red-tailed-hawk?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=77f3000a43-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-77f3000a43-63124913&ct=t(Newsletter_06_13_2017)&mc_cid=77f3000a43&mc_eid=dbc2f66964
A pair of bald eagles there are raising up a red-tailed hawk—normally a rival species—alongside their own three chicks, the Vancouver Sun reports.
A heartfelt attempt to help out some neighbors? Probably not. The eagles likely kidnapped the baby hawk, intending to feed it to their own children, raptor specialist David Bird told the Sun. When it survived the trip and started peeping, they just started feeding it instead. (This theory is supported by retroactive photo evidence, which indicates that there were once at least two hawk chicks in the nest.)
A video by Christian Sasse shows the brave youngster, which is smaller and scruffier than its adoptive siblings, gleefully taking food from the bloody beak of one of its parents. Observers say the hawk is more than able to fend for itself—and that at times, the eagle chicks even seem to defer to it, the Sun reports.
Long video and the photographers don't see the hawklet yet at half way through. Ah from comments it does show up, 35.30. And it's crop is full per the commentary. It'll fledge in estimate 7 -10 days and eaglets later in July. This was recorded mid June.
Hancockwildlife.org
