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Quoting "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>:
> A retired Chief told me the former Naval Facility in Adak, Alaska had(s)
> lots of Bald Eagles. They used to hang around the dumpsters. Personnel
> couldn't do anything about them either.
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> Perhaps major segments of the Bald Eagle population moved South because
> major military food sources have dried up? There have been I'm sure,
> lots of other base closures in Subarctic North America since the end of
> the cold war. Is it possible these previously well-fed scavengers
> migrated towards greener pastures over recent years?
In defense of the bald eagle, it is not a scavenger. It is a raptor, with
stereoscopic eyesight, that hunts its prey. All hunting animals in the wild
(with the possible exception of man) will take advantage of carrion to some
degree. The fact that a hunter will eat food from a dumpster or road kill does
not make it a scavenger - scavengers, such as vultures, eat only carrion and do
not hunt and kill their prey. A hunter eating carrion (or from a dumpster) can
be said to exhibit scavenger-like behavior, but the activity does not
reclassify the animal as a scavenger.
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