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Golden Eagle over Dublin

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  • #2
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    Bird does appear to have a pronounced S-curved rear edge, which does suggest juv golden eagle. The tail however looks a bit short. The tail length in golden eagle should be roughly equal to the width of wing, but the tail feathers do appear to be moulting so it might give an impression of a short tail.:confused:

    The gull on right looks like an adult herring gull, which can have a wingspan of 125-155cm. A golden eagle can have wing span 190-225cm. A buzzard can have a wing span 110-132cm. The wing span (bird on left)looks more like the length of a buzzard. However is the bird on left alot higher up so it appears smaller:confused:
    Any more photos???? Were the two birds at more or less the same height???


  • #3
    cameramonkey
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    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    Bird does appear to have a pronounced S-curved rear edge, which does suggest juv golden eagle. The tail however looks a bit short. The tail length in golden eagle should be roughly equal to the width of wing, but the tail feathers do appear to be moulting so it might give an impression of a short tail.:confused:

    The gull on right looks like an adult herring gull, which can have a wingspan of 125-155cm. A golden eagle can have wing span 190-225cm. A buzzard can have a wing span 110-132cm. The wing span (bird on left)looks more like the length of a buzzard. However is the bird on left alot higher up so it appears smaller:confused:
    Any more photos???? Were the two birds at more or less the same height???

    They are not my photos, I didnt see it. I just spotted the photo when I was on flickr. You could post a question on flickr to him.Do you think it is not a golden eagle? looks like quite a big bird and the gull looks to me like it is closer to the camera.


  • #4
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    They are not my photos, I didnt see it. I just spotted the photo when I was on flickr. You could post a question on flickr to him.Do you think it is not a golden eagle? looks like quite a big bird and the gull looks to me like it is closer to the camera.
    Leaning more towards a buzzard. Would definitely need more photos to be 100% sure though.
    I'm not signed up with flickr unfortunately.


  • #5
    Gaspode
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    That's a buzzard, I see buzzards around my area nearly every day and the wing formation looks the very same. Still a really cool bird to see.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Definition in the photo is poor but it looks like a Buzzard


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  • #7
    Kess73
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    Looks much too small to be a Goldie. It does seem to be flying higher than the gull but even taking that into account the wingspan in proportion to the body looks wrong. My money is on it being a buzzard. Although the more I look at the pic the more doubts I plant in my head that I am wrong :)



    Would be cool to be true though. I remember the first time I saw a Goldie in the wild in Ireland. Was only a juvenile but I was transfixed by it. Majestic bird that conveyed it's size and power with every beat of it's wings.


  • #8
    Smartypantsdig
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    Kess73 wrote: »
    Looks much too small to be a Goldie. It does seem to be flying higher than the gull but even taking that into account the wingspan in proportion to the body looks wrong. My money is on it being a buzzard. Although the more I look at the pic the more doubts I plant in my head that I am wrong :)



    Would be cool to be true though. I remember the first time I saw a Goldie in the wild in Ireland. Was only a juvenile but I was transfixed by it. Majestic bird that conveyed it's size and power with every beat of it's wings.

    Having observed golden eagle on Mull, I agree with the span to body relationship argument.


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