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Broomstick wrote: ↑2023-08-03 05:18pm >cough<

In English a "chicken" is a very specific type of bird, Gallus domesticus. Needless to say, the most recent posts in this thread were confusing to me because the only reason I could think of for a G. domesticus to be in an eagle's nest would be very, very bad for the G. domesticus, if it were even still capable of thought, as opposed to the more likely state of being a meal.

If you are referring to the growing, post-hatching offspring of a bird in general the correct English term is "chick", without the "-en". For specifically an eagle's chick, the term is "eaglet". Sorry for the mini-English lesson, I hope you were not offended by it, I only mean to promote clarity and understanding.

But yeah, I think getting tagged would, for the eaglet, be like an alien abduction. Or being temporarily taken by fairies and returned. We must be very frightening, capricious creatures to the animals of the world.

Broomstick wrote: ↑2023-08-25 07:04am Well, it's a bit fuzzy, but when they leave the nest for good they're definitely eagles. Before that use your judgement - do they look more like adults or babies at this point?

Broomstick wrote: ↑2023-09-03 03:02pm As I have often pointed out to people, in nature predators don't hunt to kill, they hunt to eat. With sometimes unfortunate implications for the meal. Concepts like "a clean kill" and "a humane death" are entirely human concepts, and not even universal amongst our kind.

The Infidel wrote: ↑2023-08-25 03:39am Both eaglets are now grown up in size and fly around and often sit on branches outside the camera's coverage. They still get fed from the parents. Nest is often empty, but not always.

Is is correct to call them eaglets when they're grown? They are now like late teenagers, I guess. Kinda fully grown, but haven't learned to catch their own food yet.

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2023-09-04 10:43am

Broomstick wrote: ↑2023-09-03 03:02pm As I have often pointed out to people, in nature predators don't hunt to kill, they hunt to eat. With sometimes unfortunate implications for the meal. Concepts like "a clean kill" and "a humane death" are entirely human concepts, and not even universal amongst our kind.

There's also the fact that the fresher the meal, the less chance of contamination or disease, which is why the oppossum 'faints' to fool predators.

Not to say that a hungry eagle will not scavenge, it will eat carrion as an 'easy meal', which is why many in the US suffer from lead poisoning. The eagles, vultures, and other raptors are drawn to the 'field dressing' many hunters leave behind, which often includes bullet fragments. This is why there's an effort to get hunters to move away from lead bullets, but its a supply/demand thing. Manufactorers will make lead bullets as long as there's a demand, and until the demand is big enough they won't switch metals.

Patrick Ogaard wrote: ↑2023-09-04 11:31am

The Infidel wrote: ↑2023-08-25 03:39am Both eaglets are now grown up in size and fly around and often sit on branches outside the camera's coverage. They still get fed from the parents. Nest is often empty, but not always.

Is is correct to call them eaglets when they're grown? They are now like late teenagers, I guess. Kinda fully grown, but haven't learned to catch their own food yet.

If they are out of the nest regularly, and more or less full-grown, but the the parents still tend to them, they're fledlgings, or fledgling eagles.
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