Police break up eagle party

Alaskansnowbirds · May 11, 2013

This is why you don't leave fish waste in the back of your pickup in Alaska.

This happened in the Safeway parking lot in Unalaska, Alaska which is a town out on the Aleutian Chain.

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2013/05/09/police-break-up-eagle-party-at-unalaska-safeway/

Great Horned Owl · May 12, 2013

That's a good story. Eagles are very opportunistic scavengers. My daughter lives on a lake near here that (during the winter) gets a lot of ice fishermen, especially on weekends. When they catch fish too small to keep, they just throw them out onto the ice.

There is a pair of eagles that makes the rounds every Monday, cleaning up after the fishermen.

Joel

Gary RV_Wizard · May 12, 2013

Bald eagles often follow the smaller ospreys around and literally rip off the fish the osprey catches. And that's our national symbol!

Wendy · May 12, 2013

Looks to me like a good reason to leave fish waste in your pickup ! Wow.

Lenae · May 15, 2013

I used to live in Unalaska. My family moved back to Oregon about a year ago. There are signs all over town during spring and fall with pictures of eagles dive-bombing people, warning folks to watch out. They are garbage birds there. The dump outside of town has HUNDREDS of eagles, all the time, just hanging out. I wish I knew how to post pictures in this forum.

Once, my husband was loading our garbage bins in his pickup to take to the dump, and we had an extra bag that didn't fit in the cans. In the time it took for him to come inside and get the last bin, there were four eagles there, tearing apart the trash. It wasn't fish either, just normal household trash.

Edited: I added a pic I had on my computer.

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