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From: andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor)
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Subject: Re: The buzzards of Hinkley
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Date: 11 Dec 90 00:52:10 GMT
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In article <10775@helios.TAMU.EDU> e343gv@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gary Varner) writes:
> I've always wondered how different a nation we might have become if the
> turkey vulture -- a shy, quiet scavenger -- had been our national bird,
> rather than the bald eagle -- a noisy, aggressive raptor 

Isn't the Bald Eagle reputation and hence its choice as US national bird
based (anthromorphically) on its appearance? I thought, like many eagles,
it is by preference a timid scavenger, taking live prey only when carrion is
unavailable.

Does the Bald Eagles range touch Asia? In other words are there
Soviet Bald Eagles?

Andrew