World's largest eagle attacks Kittiwake birds

4 million breeding sea birds, including a variety of puffins, make their annual journey to Talan, an island in the northern Sea of Okhotsk in Eastern Russia, to form an amazing avian colony. Watch this breath-taking wildlife video to see a Steller's Sea Eagle take advantage of the nesting season to pluck a Kittiwake bird from mid air. Brilliant short from BBC natural history epic, The Blue Planet.
rich_magnetsays...

Largest bird? Sort of. According to wikipedia:

Steller's Sea-eagle is the biggest bird in the genus Haliaeetus and is one of the largest raptors overall. Females typically weigh from 6.8 to 9 kilograms (15 to 20 lb; 1.07 to 1.4 st), while males are rather lighter with a weight range from 4.9 to 6 kilograms (11 to 13 lb; 0.77 to 0.94 st).[3] At its average weight, the Steller's outweighs both the average Harpy and the average Philippine Eagles by over 0.5 kilograms (1.1 lb; 0.079 st).[3]
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The Steller's sea eagle has the second largest median wingspan of any eagle.[3] Both the wing chord and wingspan, at an average of 2.13 m (7.0 ft), are similar or slightly smaller than to those of the Steller's close relative, the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which is rather smaller in both weight and total length.[3]
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The bill is very large. In fact, the skull (at around 14.6 cm (5.7 in)) and the culmen (at around 7 cm (2.8 in)) of the Steller's Sea Eagle are the largest of any eagle and are comparable in size to those of the largest accipitrids, the Old World vultures.[7][8]

zaustsays...

Attenborough's voice is probably the most boring thing I've ever heard. What he says is interesting but he is makes it a challenge to listen to a word he says - he's like the rohypnol of the presentting world.

gharksays...

Attenborough is irreplaceable, people tried, and failed. Getting him out of retirement for these new series was a big win as there's simply nobody else that can present in such a natural manner. Maybe it's just because a lot of people grew up watching him, I don't know, but there's certainly a lot of people that don't share your opinion.

zaustsaid:

Attenborough's voice is probably the most boring thing I've ever heard. What he says is interesting but he is makes it a challenge to listen to a word he says - he's like the rohypnol of the presentting world.

siftbotsays...

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