can a eagle kill a coyote
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WOW, Every winter, eagles will kill a few newborn calves around here. It usually happens when the river freezes over. Nothing you can do except feed them something else like a road killed deer. I was always impressed with that, and the calves didnt have fangs like those coyotes.
EWaCoyoteHunter2
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WOW!, i cant tell if thats real or not. If its real, then thats pretty cool!
Verminator2
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Did the coyote attack that guy on the horse?!?!?
EWaCoyoteHunter2
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I dont know, thats what it looked like. I like how the eagle swoops down, and just makes the coyote roll!
todbartell
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looked like it! and it looked like he fell off his horse /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
that video was WILD /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
that video was WILD /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
ballistic_trep
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Wow! Pretty cool!
Bob Tobergte
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I don't know about a coyote, but I saw one take the dust mop dog next door right out of his yard. I never did like that yapping little dog.
I know that you & me are gonna catch Hell, but that would really be sumpin to see. A yappy little precious dust mop getting his due. Good!
I don't know about a coyote, but I saw one take the dust mop dog next door right out of his yard. I never did like that yapping little dog.
I know that you & me are gonna catch Hell, but that would really be sumpin to see. A yappy little precious dust mop getting his due. Good!
No, I doubt an eagle would even try, much less, have the ability to kill a coyote. A mature golden eagle, weighs give or take a little, 12 pounds,and a mature coyote averages 25 pounds. An eagle has a tough time taking off with a jackrabbit in its mitts, much less tackling a coyote.
Theres an old movie called harpy, the harpy eagle is the larges eagle in the world and comes from africa i believe. in this movie the guy teaches the eagle to kill wolfs. he starts with a decoy wolf he pulls behind a horse, then in the end of the movie the eagle kills a live wolf. now i no this was hollywood but yes i believe that a eagle can and will kill coyotes.\
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No, I doubt an eagle would even try, much less, have the ability to kill a coyote. A mature golden eagle, weighs give or take a little, 12 pounds,and a mature coyote averages 25 pounds. An eagle has a tough time taking off with a jackrabbit in its mitts, much less tackling a coyote.
The eagle doesn't have to take off with it and raptors frequently kill prey larger than themselves. I had a 500 g. (1 lb) male prairie/peregrine falcon that would routinely cut thru a flock of ducks and take the lead drake mallard. That same tiercel took 3 full grown jackrabbits (this was his prairie blood talking) and bound to a full-grown Canada goose but lost that one before we could get there. Out in Idaho, I had a friend who caught coyotes with his golden eagle, running in a team with an Irish wolfhound. The hound would flush and push the 'yote, and the eagle would take it down from a soar or off a nearby cliff. Doesn't have to kill it- as long as it can hold the coyote down, the falconer can do the killing. Trained raptors know this and will bind and hold to prey much bigger than they'd normally take by themselves.
In the wild, if you have a pair of goldens working together, they can kill some pretty large prey. I'm not saying they'll do it regularly, but a hungry eagle is a ferocious bird. Twice here on the ranch, I've found freshly dead and partially-eaten pronghorn with hair and golden eagle body feathers strewn together for 20 yards in a zig-zag line. Quarter mile away were my resident eagles with huge crops. There's no question that they ate the pronghorn and the feathers mixed in with the antelope hair looked just like the aftermath of a Harris' hawk taking down a jack. I have case after case of other biologists seeing similar things- one of them was counting 'lopes from a helicopter when a golden came in underneath them, bound to a yearling 'lope and took it down. My ex-boss called me up last year wondering if I could say anything to eagle/pronghorn interactions for a book he was editing. So, the evidence is there.
What you're seeing in that video sure looks like Mongolian eagle hunters. They've been doing this kind of thing for a long time- it's how they collect furs for sale. Couple of links:
http://www.mongoliaaltaiexpeditions.com/
http://www.mongoliatoday.com/eagle.html
That dog that jumps on the horse is probably a chase dog just like my friend's Irish wolfhound was. Surprisingly, eagles (and other trained raptors) can work with such things and not take them. Some guys use small dogs like Jack Russell terriers to push rabbits and others use ferrets, and the hawk doesn't take them.
The eagle-cam is WAY cool!!
No, I doubt an eagle would even try, much less, have the ability to kill a coyote. A mature golden eagle, weighs give or take a little, 12 pounds,and a mature coyote averages 25 pounds. An eagle has a tough time taking off with a jackrabbit in its mitts, much less tackling a coyote.
The eagle doesn't have to take off with it and raptors frequently kill prey larger than themselves. I had a 500 g. (1 lb) male prairie/peregrine falcon that would routinely cut thru a flock of ducks and take the lead drake mallard. That same tiercel took 3 full grown jackrabbits (this was his prairie blood talking) and bound to a full-grown Canada goose but lost that one before we could get there. Out in Idaho, I had a friend who caught coyotes with his golden eagle, running in a team with an Irish wolfhound. The hound would flush and push the 'yote, and the eagle would take it down from a soar or off a nearby cliff. Doesn't have to kill it- as long as it can hold the coyote down, the falconer can do the killing. Trained raptors know this and will bind and hold to prey much bigger than they'd normally take by themselves.
In the wild, if you have a pair of goldens working together, they can kill some pretty large prey. I'm not saying they'll do it regularly, but a hungry eagle is a ferocious bird. Twice here on the ranch, I've found freshly dead and partially-eaten pronghorn with hair and golden eagle body feathers strewn together for 20 yards in a zig-zag line. Quarter mile away were my resident eagles with huge crops. There's no question that they ate the pronghorn and the feathers mixed in with the antelope hair looked just like the aftermath of a Harris' hawk taking down a jack. I have case after case of other biologists seeing similar things- one of them was counting 'lopes from a helicopter when a golden came in underneath them, bound to a yearling 'lope and took it down. My ex-boss called me up last year wondering if I could say anything to eagle/pronghorn interactions for a book he was editing. So, the evidence is there.
What you're seeing in that video sure looks like Mongolian eagle hunters. They've been doing this kind of thing for a long time- it's how they collect furs for sale. Couple of links:
http://www.mongoliaaltaiexpeditions.com/
http://www.mongoliatoday.com/eagle.html
That dog that jumps on the horse is probably a chase dog just like my friend's Irish wolfhound was. Surprisingly, eagles (and other trained raptors) can work with such things and not take them. Some guys use small dogs like Jack Russell terriers to push rabbits and others use ferrets, and the hawk doesn't take them.
The eagle-cam is WAY cool!!
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