'First case' of a bald eagle killed by a loon

[Still Waters]

A wildlife biologist at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, D’Auria got word of a dead eagle found at Highland Lake in Bridgton. The bird had been found with a puncture wound in its chest and, because it is illegal to kill bald eagles, D’Auria had the bird radiographed for a possible bullet wound at Norway Veterinary Hospital.

What she eventually found astounded her. The evidence collected from the radiograph, and a pathologist’s examination at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, indicated that the big bird had been stabbed through the heart by the beak of a loon.

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/05/20/outdoors/a-maine-loon-killed-a-bald-eagle-by-stabbing-it-in-the-heart/

[SHaYap]

Steve and the stingray reincarnated? 

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[Piney]

Just now, third_eye said:

Steve and the stingray reincarnated? 

Crows and robins attack and beat up on bald eagles, so this isn't too much of a surprise. One top of that, loons are pretty aggressive when messed with. 

 

 

[Oniomancer]

Stabbed through the heart

and you're to blame

you give loons a bad name.

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I guess it's up to me so here it is... 

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The younglings would be lost otherwise... 

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[Kittens Are Jerks]

7 hours ago, Piney said:

Crows and robins attack and beat up on bald eagles, so this isn't too much of a surprise. One top of that, loons are pretty aggressive when messed with. 

I was nearly attacked by one up at the cottage after inadvertently getting too close to the mother and her babies. It was unnerving to say the least.

[openozy]

21 hours ago, Still Waters said:

stabbed through the heart by the beak of a loon.

Loonatic.