Cooperative Hunting at Lake Sonoma
Bald eagles are well known scavengers and very opportunistic in that they never pass up an opportunity for food according to Wade Eakle, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), South Pacific Division ecologist. Eakle and USACE Park Rangers witnessed a newly discovered raptor forging behavior, coined as ‘cooperative piracy’ displayed by the two iconic emblems of American freedom in Geyserville, Calif. in spring 2013.

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Photo by: Wade Eakle |  VIRIN: 130524-A-FB631-101.JPG