Have had this happen a few times with Red Tail Hawks.My buddy had a golden eagle swoop on his daughter last summer in NW OK. Truly terrified him. He won’t be outside without his pistol n
Seems like a good time for this...Bigger than our bald eagles.
It was interesting on our last trip to Alaska, we were on a boat tour. A tour guide naturalist told the group that the biggest killer of bald eagles in Alaska were salmon.
They swoop down on a big king salmon get their talons hooked in there and drown when it’s too big to lift and fly away with. There are YouTube videos showing exactly that.
I don't know, have you seen those starlings in the parking lot at Walmart?? Those things are huge. They might carry even an average Walmart shopper off.Actually I kind of believe this. Anecdotally there are many stories of large birds carrying off animals of "larger size." There are reports in the central US of even large birds attempting to carry off people. Last time I went to Walmart though I would not have believed it, think a Sikorsky Sky Crane would have had trouble...
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