OWL Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL) had a bit of a fight on their hands on Wednesday – an eagle fight.
On a post on their Facebook page, OWL described a situation involving a pair of eagles.
“Today we helped convince these two eagles to separate after an intense interspecies fight. This time of year many adult Bald Eagles are coming back to their previous nest sites only to find another eagle trying to claim the nest for their own. They chase and lock feet in legs (or chest and heads) sometimes the fighting eagles won’t let go of each other and can do some serious damage.
“OWL is called and in most scenarios the eagles are not seriously injured. We encourage them to both fly away, occasionally one or both have serious injuries. That is when we might intervene providing medical care. These two were not injured and as soon as we separated them they took flight, only to have the younger eagle go for the other eagle again! We then separated them a second time and gave one eagle a bit of a head start to fly away before the other flew off as well!
This is the most natural reason we get calls to OWL, every other issue is generally involving human caused problems.”
