{"id":149007,"date":"2023-12-23T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=149007"},"modified":"2023-12-23T06:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T13:19:42","slug":"an-upset-adult-bald-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/23\/an-upset-adult-bald-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"An Upset Adult Bald Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it fair or even accurate to say that Bald Eagle vocalizations are \u201c<\/em>ridiculously weak and insignificant.\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 40D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an older photo of an adult Bald Eagle that was one of perhaps a dozen eagles that had collected on a small pond at Farmington Bay WMA. ‘He’ was upset because another eagle had just landed right in front of him so he let his displeasure be known by reacting this way and calling out aggressively in typical Bald Eagle fashion.<\/p>\n

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A different crop of the same photo reveals part of a juvenile that was also there but the younger eagle wasn’t the one the adult was most unhappy with. The eagle that had just landed was actually in front of the juvie and just barely out of frame to the right.<\/p>\n

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Just looking at this photo causes me to hear that typical Bald Eagle vocalization<\/a><\/span><\/span> in my head. The first time they hear it, most folks are surprised by what it sounds like. Cornell’s Birds of the World has some interesting things to say about the vocalizations of Bald Eagles so I’m quoting them below.<\/p>\n

“Though among the most iconic bird species in North America, the vocalizations of the Bald Eagle are less well known and often not recognized by the public. The sound most often attributed to the species in movies is the scream of the Red-tailed Hawk, rather than the weak, gull-like calls typically given by the Bald Eagle. Its call was described by Brewster as \u201cweak in volume and trivial in expression\u2026it consists of seven or eight notes given rather quickly, but haltingly and with apparent difficulty, as if their author was choking or gasping for breath. It cannot fittingly be called a scream, but is rather a snickering laugh expressive of imbecile derision, rather than anything else. My notes render it thus \u2014 Ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ker.\u201d It was characterized by Bent as \u201cridiculously weak and insignificant.\u201d The functions of vocalizations are largely unknown and need study.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose the accuracy of Bent’s characterization of Bald Eagle calls is fair game for debate but I suspect we could all agree that those “pantaloons” of the adult are pretty magnificent.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Is it fair or even accurate to say that Bald Eagle vocalizations are \u201cridiculously weak and insignificant.\u201d?<\/p>\n

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