Chapter 105 Bald Eagle (X)
The living habits of bald eagles are quite special.
They often appear in groups, but unlike most social animals, they do not care for each other or cooperate in hunting.
The bald eagles that move in groups are typical representatives of "being able to share hardships, but not watching their own kind enjoy happiness alone."
Once in the group, which eagle gets the food first.
The other sea eagles would surely surround it immediately and start a frantic snatching movement.
Even if you don't get the bird, you can't let other eagles eat it all by themselves. The main purpose is to "harm the bird without benefiting yourself".
Therefore, when the group of bald eagles waiting on the shore for salmon to swim over saw a fat little eagle flying through the air with a salmon in its grasp, they felt extremely uncomfortable.
"Oh oh!" I lifted your fish!
"Oh oh!" Don't eat it, everyone!
A group of sea eagles, which are good at kleptocytosis and parasitism, flapped their wings and took off, trying to snatch the fish from the fat little bird.
When they flew into the air, the adult sea eagle discovered that
Chase, but can’t catch up.
God knows what that fat chick eats to grow up. It just left the nest and is still far from adulthood, but its flying speed is much faster than that of an adult bird!
The second to last in the Electric Lighting Class was promoted to the last in the Falcon Class. All the sand sculptures on the beach combined didn’t even touch the tail hair of the little fat chick.
On the coast, there was a sea eagle with a far higher IQ. Seeing that the little fat bird was circling in a big circle, it seized the opportunity and planned to rush into the air to intercept him when he flew over.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the adult eagle flew into the air, the little fat chick suddenly turned sideways, keeping a vertical posture with the ground and passing by the adult eagle.
Yu Yijun caught the salmon and tossed the adult sea eagles around for several rounds like walking a dog, chirping proudly.
"Chichi~" Stupid people, you know you are a badass~
"Chirp, chirp~" If you dare to steal my food in the future, I will sneak away from you.
After walking on the sand sculpture, the little fat bird flapped its wings and caught the salmon and returned to its nest on the shore.
In the bird's nest, the two birds are still guarding the empty nest alone.
After being released by their three chicks, they had planned to abandon the nest like most sea eagle parents.
But before abandoning the nest, Feichu, the last born but the largest one, brought back a mallard duck.
"???"
The sea eagle couple was confused.
As bald eagles, they were well aware of the bad qualities of their own race.
Once a young bird leaves the nest, it can never repay its parents for their kindness in raising it.
Next time you meet your parents, it would be considered filial piety if you don’t snatch food from them.
Some young birds cannot compete with other birds, so they rely on their parents not to be cruel to them and specifically choose to parasitize their parents.
The sea eagle couple originally thought that feeding the mallard was just an accident.
Half a day later, the fat little bird brought back another black-bellied whistling duck.
——There’s no other way. The success rate of hunting practice is getting higher and higher, and I can’t finish eating it.
Yu Yiyun accomplished four kills in one day, and flew towards the peregrine falcon with his prey in his grasp, scaring it so much that it used its wings to drive him away.
"Hiss!" Stay away from me!
"Hiss!" If you don't lose weight, I will!
The peregrine falcon is a medium-sized bird of prey, and its slender body helps to increase its flying speed.
If it eats too much and becomes a big fat ball like its apprentice, how can it maintain a speed of over 300 kilometers per hour?
Yu Yiyun caught the prey and tried to feed it to the crows.
"Gaga!" Baby, I'm full!
The hot summer ended, the temperature gradually became milder, and the ravens regained their previous mobility and hunting abilities, feeding themselves well every day.
Not only did he feed himself, but he also fed his godson and goddaughter.
Yu Yijun raised her head and saw her brother and sister who were always by Raven's side. She wanted to shake their shoulders to wake Raven up.
What godson and goddaughter!
Yaya, didn't you realize that you were parasitized? !
Although she thought about it, Yu Yiyun, who was the first to "parasitize" Ya Ya, did not dare to say it out loud.
He passed the mallard to his brother and sister, trying to lighten the crow's burden.
The older brother and sister burped, indicating that they couldn't eat another bite.
It is obvious that this parasitic relationship makes their lives very comfortable.
Yu Yiyun looked at their size and flapped her wings to drive her brother and sister away.
"Chi!" Waste!
"Chirp!" Learn to hunt with me!
Because they have been living together day and night since childhood, the older brothers and sisters are even more afraid of the little fat boy than their parents, and a blood repression has formed.
In addition, the flying skills were taught to them by the fat little Jiuchi Bachi, so they developed a good understanding with each other.
Even if you don't understand the chirping language, you can still understand the general meaning just from the tone and body language.
“Chichi…”
“Chirp…”
The two idiots said aggrievedly, "Just go away" and "Why are you shouting so loudly?"
As a result, Yu Yiyun couldn't send the mallard duck away after going around in circles, so he had to take it back to the nest to feed his parents.
From that day on, the number of sand sculpture hunting training classes increased from one to three.
As the saying goes, three cobblers make a Zhuge Liang. No matter how stupid two idiots are, they can at least play a supporting role.
After teacher Yunyun's hard teaching, Yu Yiyun got more and more prey in the next half month, and took the leftovers back to feed the parent birds.
After so many times, the sea eagle couple, who had just finished their task of raising chicks, became lazy again and stayed at the nest every day waiting for fresh food.
Before the salmon season in Alaska arrives, a pair of sea eagles eat the plump salmon freshly caught in the bird's nest before all of their peers.
As they munched on the salmon, his grape-sized head seemed to realize something was wrong.
"Oh huh?" Did we have salmon at this time last year?
"...oyi." Honey, I was still a novice at this time last year.
"Oh."
The female eagle recalled carefully that at this time last year, she had not yet divorced her dead ex-husband.
"Oh~" She spread her wide wings, embraced her little husband, and enjoyed the salmon dinner sweetly.
After eating a whole salmon, the female eagle savored it with satisfaction, confirming that this was not the same salmon from last year.
Salmon is a shared staple food among top predators in the sea, land and air, delivering food throughout their migration.
Killer whales prey mainly on salmon in the early stages of their migration, stunning them and then swallowing them whole.
Brown bears prey on migrating salmon. In order to gain weight as quickly as possible in the fall, they mainly eat nutritious fish eggs.
The bald eagles will wait until the salmon have finished spawning and gather in the shallows to pick up food.
Alaska has long winters with extremely low temperatures.
The salmon season for bald eagles lasts a long time, and even salmon that have been dead for days are washed ashore and will still be fought over by the eagles.
Strictly speaking, the salmon caught by Yu Yiyun does not belong to the "bald eagle's feeding process."
The time goes back to three days ago.
Yu Yiyun, who used to be a Mackenzie wolf in North America and had just been reincarnated from an ocean gadget into a little eagle, was very familiar with every aspect of the salmon migration process and knew roughly when and where they would appear.
Yu Yiyun followed the salmon's migration path and came to the fork in the river, where he saw countless brown bears occupying the best hunting spots early.
Brown bears living in North America, especially mothers with cubs or about to give birth, usually eat mainly plants and carrion and rely entirely on salmon to survive the winter.
The strong and powerful brown bear uses its strength to occupy the best hunting spots.
Female brown bears with less competitiveness or those with cubs have to queue at the back or settle for another location.
All the bears are waiting to see who will catch the first salmon of the year.
Suddenly, accompanied by the crisp chirping of "chi chi chi", three bald eagles that had not yet shed their feathers flew over.
The brown bear, who only has salmon in his mind, doesn't take the eagle sauce seriously.
Nowadays, there are more and more bald eagles in the United States, and brown bears are naturally familiar with the habits of these robber birds.
The three of them must have been waiting, like their peers, for the brown bear to finish eating the fish eggs and throw the remaining fish meat onto the nearby river bank.
Every year during the salmon season, brown bears throw away dozens of tons of salmon, nourishing countless animals on both sides of the river.
Coyotes, ravens, foxes, Mackenzie wolves, and bald eagles often fight over the fish thrown away by brown bears.
The brown bear looked at the three sea eagle chicks and thought that they came at a bad time.
The salmon haven't swam over in large numbers yet, and the brown bear hasn't eaten enough, so how could it throw fish onto the shore?
When the salmon arrived one after another, there were too many robbers waiting on the shore to pick up the leftovers, and these three young birds were definitely not a match.
It was definitely a mistake for the young bird to try its luck here...
Xiong Xiong secretly felt sorry for the three young birds that were destined to starve, just as he heard a loud chirp from the fat bird flying in the front, and it suddenly began to dive towards the water.
During the dive, he constantly folded his wings and used gravity to accelerate.
The whole set of movements is smooth and flowing, and it doesn't look like a sea eagle, but more like...
Falcon? ? ?
Xiongxiong examined his round body. It couldn't be said that he was exactly the same as Falcon, but it could be said that they were completely unrelated.
The fat little bird dived straight down and was about to dive into the water.
Wetting wings is a very dangerous behavior for sea eagles.
Wet feathers would prevent him from flying.
What's worse is that there are so many hungry brown bears around.
They certainly don't mind eating the fat little chicks that can't fly before enjoying their salmon.
The brown bear dog on the shore jumped into the river stealthily, intending to take advantage of the leak.
Unexpectedly, before the young bird fell into the water, it cleverly changed its posture in the air.
A few tenths of a second before touching the river, it flapped its wings with the help of the wind direction to correct the skewed attack.
Then it stretched its two eagle claws into the water, and with lightning speed, it quickly grabbed the salmon swimming towards it and flew high into the sky with it.
Before the brown bear could react, the first fish of the year had fallen into the claws of the sea eagle, which is known to "not hunt but only pick up garbage" and "would starve to death if it didn't parasite".
The photography crew who come here every year to film and record brown bears fishing accidentally captured the entire process of sea eagle chicks fishing.
The camera assistant played back the clip and asked awkwardly, "Do you want to cut this footage?"
Editing, splicing, and blurring the timeline are all commonly used techniques in documentary production.
The protagonist of their filming was the brown bear, so how could they let a bird steal the limelight?
The director watched the entire process in silence, shook his head and said, "Don't cut it. This footage is more valuable than a brown bear catching fish."
"What?" The photography assistant was confused. "Isn't it just a bird that can catch fish? You can see it everywhere."
"Birds that can catch fish are everywhere, but there are not many sea eagles willing to catch salmon," the director commented. "He is too young and may not know what his peers are doing. Our national bird will never take the initiative when it can get something for nothing."
The director didn't know that after the little sea eagle caught the salmon, it ordered its brother and sister to take turns flying hundreds of kilometers with the salmon, provoking its fellow eagles who couldn't wait for the salmon.
"Chirp?" See this salmon?
"Chichi~" I caught it~!
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