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Q. How much food do bald eagles need to eat in a day?
A. It depends on the bird's size, weight, level of activity, general health, weather, and other stressors. An adult might need about 5 to 10 percent of its body weight, depending on circumstances.
Q. How big are bald eagles?
A. Sizes and weights vary greatly:
Southern birds are smaller and lighter than northern birds; an Alaskan male can weigh about the same as a southern female.
Average lengths range from 71 to 96 centimetres (2.3 to 3.1 feet).
Average weights range from just under 3 kilograms to 6.3 kilograms (6.6 pounds to 14 pounds) although weights as high as 7.7 kilograms (17 pounds) have been recorded for Alaskan females.
Averaged across their entire range, male weights range from 3.6 to 4.1 kilograms (8 to 9 pounds); female weights range from 4.5 to 6.4 kilograms (10 to 14 pounds).
Average wingspans range from 168 to 244 centimetres (5.5 to 8 feet).
MDDoxs
reply to post by Biigs
Oh I will agree with you! Carnivorous birds would most definitely take advantage of a weak animal that died or on its last legs.
My position is that birds alone would not be able to strip cattle of enough material (based on feeding behavior) to recreate the mutilated bodies that have been found.
H1ght3chHippie
Unless a new eagly type emergd, capable of removing tissue with laser scalpels, then no, it could not be the cause.
H1ght3chHippie
Unless a new eagly type emergd, capable of removing tissue with laser scalpels, then no, it could not be the cause.
copperhead12
reply to post by Biigs
I have lived on ranches all my life. My family and I lived right in the middle of the cattle mutilations.
I found a very large bull that weighed over a thousand pounds That had been mutilated within two hours of being let out into the pasture.
His ears, tongue,rectum, and penis had been removed with surgical precission. No blood anywhere!
The sheriff came out and took pictures and samples, the blood left in the body was crystalized.
There was no sign that he had struggled.
We had a friend that was a butcher and we asked if he could duplicate the cuts. He had been cutting meat for over 40 years. He couldn't do it and said it must have been with a laser.
Birds, coyotes, and even flys and bugs would not come any where near the body.
The sheriff asked us to leave it where it was and see what happened.
FBI and other "experts" came by every day or so and looked at it but just drove on.