Bald eagles?

why are bald eagels americas national bird when theres losds in canada and naff all in america?

 

cuz dumb americans killed all their habitat and theres few left.

 

Atleast you dont eat your coat of arms

 

because the phoenix bird seemed a bit too esoteric and creepy

 

its the way jesus wanted it to be

 

Make that almost killed, then woke up and smelled the coffee. I spotted a bald eagle in a city park in Columbus GA recently.

 

Washington state has quite a few, but then again, we're almost canada...

 

loads of bald eagles around anymore. i see them all the time. and they're our emblem because we got it first.

 

there are golden eagles and bald eagles up here...they're the most prevalent ive ever seen them in these parts lately...

 

golde eagles are really cool. we get loads of hawks, too.

 

naff all? must mean common, since i've seen quite a few of them around.

 

why?

because were the best

 

Ben Franklin thought the North American wild turkey should be the national bird. Of course, the turkey of his day was nothing like the domesticated descendants we know today. The wild turkey of Ben Franklin's day was a brightly plumed, cunning bird of flight. Unlike eagles, turkeys live in flocks. Imagine seeing a flock of birds as large as turkeys flying across the sky. It must have been a wondrous sight. Wild turkeys have longer necks and legs as well as smaller breasts than turkeys bred for the table. The true American turkey was "wild and wary to the point of genius," said author G. T. Klein.

A letter from Ben Franklin to his daughter about his desire to make the turkey the national bird.

 

well, they certainly look better than their domesticated distant cousins... but they never struck me as being any smarter than any other birds. several of them used to roost in a tree in my parents' backyard for a while; i probably could have killed them with a rock if i had so desired.



by the way, the link didn't work for me.

 

America. Fuck yeah.

 

here try this..

http://www.clickondetroit.com/sh/holidays/stories/holidays-20001113-135438.html

you ever hunted a turkey? trust me they are the HARDEST animal to hunt in north america..

the ones in your folks back yard musta been somewhat domesticated because thats not normal .

 

i've never really hunted anything. unless you count those two random roosters that took up residence in our chicken coop at one point...

but anyway, i just know that i was able to pretty much walk right up underneath those wild turkeys before they ever even seemed to notice me.



and this link was fruitful. :cheers2:

 

well they were certainly wild turkeys by all physical descriptions. but i'm sure it's quite possible that they became used to humans somehow.