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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I've heard of being camera shy before but this really takes it to a whole new level.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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 Take that you paparazzi
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| look at where those talons are,base of the neck and a little further down the spine,holy fuk he could have died.They can squeeze pretty tight.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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What kind of eagle is that? Immature bald?
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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That pic is his only proof of sanity.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks like a golden eagle to me
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks like a golden eagle to me |
thats my thought
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Is that a camera strap that's flying out into space, or is it possibly a set of jesses or lead for a falcon / hawk? In any case, I'd really hate to be that individual at that moment.
Steve
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HangDiver
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Eagle sets up camera, puts up a sign "FREE CAMERA".
Guy comes running over to get his free camera...
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Don't fuk with mother nature!!! she'll grab you amongst the neck and ears! 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| How big is that dude ----- cause the bird is close to his size
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| HangDiver wrote: |
Eagle sets up camera, puts up a sign "FREE CAMERA".
Guy comes running over to get his free camera... |
 I think you are correct, the camera was the bait. Humans! What a dumb animal. 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| Wow! Sucks to be him! Cool shot though.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Same dude...
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| A hunting golden eagle attacks a cameraman during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty, December 5, 2009. When it snows on the steppes of eastern Kazakhstan, hunters saddle up and gallop off with eagles on their arms in search of prey. Many in Kazakhstan see eagle hunting as a symbol of their nation's nomadic past and a throwback to an oft-romanticised era before these steppes turned into a geopolitical battleground between competing regional powers Russia and China. Picture taken December 5. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| strap appears to be jessups. if so, actually nice photo, not as threatening as appears. handler just needs to elevate perch. to struggle would be worse than futile. my basis for these assumptions? somewhere i still have pics of me, my wing, and (pet) raptor.
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Avnav8r
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Hey,
That is a Golden Eagle and the long strap appears to be a leash that has either come untied or broken. Many of the Mongolian Falconers that fly Goldens fly them at weights so low that they attack anything within sight or reason. For centuries, they have hunted Goldens from horseback to attack wolves and if the bird misses the wolf, then a number of times the eagle has come back to attack the rider/falconer and or the horse. A hungry Golden Eagle is a force to be reaconed with (read here:Dangerous)! When my wife, Dale, and I worked at the American Eagle Foundation, we were flight training a human imprinted female Golden Eagle that weighed 13 pounds and had over a 7 foot wingspan. She did not like being hungry and when she flew to the glove, she would land feet spread far apart (in attack mode) with her hackles raised. Her feet were as large as my hands and equipped with 2-3 inch talons, backed up with an estimated 1000-1200 psi grip. To have this hungry, agitated bird on my glove, has been, quite frankly, one of the scariest things I have ever experienced!!! We decided to not flight train her soon after that and probably saved us from serious injury. We fed her up and became a great educational bird. When she matured, she started laying eggs in the Spring and since she was a human imprint, she considered Dale and me as suitable mate substitues. She had a nest where she incubated her infertile eggs. When she wanted a break from incubation, she did a certain whistle to either Dale or me and we would go in to her enclosure to relieve her (the bird had us trained). When she was sitting on her eggs, she was as docile as a sitting hen. Quite a contrast from the hungry bird we were flying to our gloves!
To sum all this, the photographer in the picture was lucky if he escaped with a few punctures to his coat!
John Stokes
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