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Eagle Deaths by Wind Turbines Increasing, Study Finds

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Wind turbines at Altamont Pass in Northern California (a known eagle-fatality site not included in the study); image by Bonita de Boer/Flickr/Creative Commons License. . A recent study has documented a rise in the number of turbine-related eagle deaths in the United States. . News Bald Eagles Golden Eagles windmills'

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

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She is The Eagle Huntress , the young Kazakh star of this captivating film, and her joy comes from a life integrally connected to nature. In Act 1, we meet Aisholpan and her family—her eagle hunter father, Rys, her hard working mother, Almagul, her younger sister and brother, and her grandfather, also once an eagle hunter.

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Thought experiment

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Horses have a good chance. The main strategy for horses is organisation. Horses live in groups. The ones who would last until the very end would be lions , tigers bears, eagles and wolves. They are quite fast and can hide in places predators can't reach like Holes, pieces of debris etc. Not to mention their speed.

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Linkwood Distillery: 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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While it has no official status – at least not yet – many Scots regard the Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ) as their national avian mascot. Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935). Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935).

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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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A vicero gets his horse ready to look for giant anteaters. The mythical Harpy Eagle , a bird that is actually easily seen at its nesting sites around villages like Surama, definitely falls into this category. View from 10:18 onwards to see my first glimpse of a juvenile harpy eagle close to Surama village.

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Birding with the Pale Rider Close Behind

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I am driving down the dirt track in the Carska Bara Ramsar site (Serbia) and a cloud of dust closely follows me, like a rider on a pale horse. Passing a Red-backed Shrike … one adult White-tailed Eagle flies by. Just for fun, it seems – joie de vivre? One Western Marsh Harrier … and my first Lesser Grey Shrike this year.

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Osprey in Missoula

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“Do you see the eagle?” So does another located at Dunrovin Ranch (in the background of which you can occasionally see poet Mackenzie Cole and others of my MFA buddies working on horse training.) Time enough, I suppose, for our newcomers to figure out that those aren’t eagles.