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Old July 7, 2007, 04:36 PM   #26
taralon
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Just as a FYI:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=009...OR-enlargePage

and:

http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/Eagles.asp

and:

http://arcticcentre.ulapland.fi/docs...etal2006WB.pdf

Indicates that though deer/caribou/reindeer predation by eagles is not their primary food source, that they will kill large game animals with relative ease.

The one mulie doe I saw killed by a golden eagle (the one with the broke foreleg) got hit in the upper neck/head region. The neck, and skull were both obviously broken after the impact, and the talons has tore deep into the neck and severed the main arteries on one side. It was dead before it even hit the ground.
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