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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 1 2006, 08:44 AM (321 Views) | |
| Teddy_Neal | Aug 1 2006, 08:44 AM Post #1 |
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When you are banding, do the adults ever bomb you? How do you counter that? What's the most dangerous on the eaglets, the talons or the beak? Is that transmitter on the eagle for life? How do you get them to leave it alone? Do you get mites from the birds on you?
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| Eagle Guy | Aug 1 2006, 10:17 AM Post #2 |
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Usually when we approach the nests the adults do dive bomb us, but they usually don't come closer than abou 5 feet. I'd say the most dangerous parts of the eaglets are the talons. They can lock their feet closed and the talons are long enough and sharp enough to go completely through your hand. That's why we get control of the feet first. The transmitter should fall off in a couple years so that they don't have to carry a non-functioning transmitter for life. The birds preen the straps under their feathers and usually leave the transmitters alone, except for picking at the antennas sometimes. The bird lice crawl all over us when we are banding, but mammals are not their preferred animals, so they drop off within an hour or two. |
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| Teddy_Neal | Aug 1 2006, 10:41 AM Post #3 |
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Thank you, Dr Sharpe! |
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| Teddy_Neal | Aug 1 2006, 02:21 PM Post #4 |
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Is the nest susceptible to lightning strikes up there in the top of that tree? |
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