The eagle parachuted down on to the shoveler feet first making minute
adjustments to it's direction with it's wings.As soon as it grabbed the
shoveler the teal settled on the water right beside it obviously knowing it was
safe.It took the shoveler to a butchering site on the ground almost a kilometre
away.This was located by the activity of a pair of ravens and whistling
kites.The shovelers bill was amazing with single row of comb like structures
on the lateral margins for straining microinvertebrates.The brutality of this
observation pales next to a black-shouldered kite I saw at gloucester a few
years ago sitting on a fence post holding down a desperately struggling brown
quail and plucking it alive and then ripping strips of flesh of its breast and
eating it alive.
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