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Adult eagles with feet / leg injuries
Topic Started: Oct 23 2015, 11:41 AM (336 Views)
Maria K.
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Hi Doc.

It seems that it happens more often than we believe, that some of the adult eagles getting a leg / foot injured. Our local female eagle were limping through the last year breeding season, she has two offspring's, which fledged successfully.
For some days ago, came the Norwegian female eagle limping to the nest. I have observed that her offspring’s were quite aggressive, bite her and push her from the nest. Could it be possible, that this kind of injuries happens, when the adults makes their food deliveries, special in the air? I am thinking about Wray’s injury too, I saw in 2013 on the WE- cam, at one of the adults and one of the fledglings touch each other in the air, it could have been a prey delivery in the air.


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Eagle Guy
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There are many ways they can injure their feet/legs, including fights with other eagles, getting poked with the fins of fish they are capturing, and hitting a perch too hard when they are landing.
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JoJo
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Oooops!!!!
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