Eagles

Video: Fox, eagle, 2 cats just hanging out in Unalaska

"Our fox and eagles and cats basically get along just fine here. Sometimes if there is food they might fight over the food some," says the Unalaska resident who posted this YouTube video.

Anchorage landfill hazers battle eagles, ravens, gulls

The bald eagle may be America's bird, but as the employees of Anchorage's Municipal Landfill know, it is also an incorrigible trash hound. Each winter, 200 to 300 eagles take up residence at the main city landfill off Hiland Road in Eagle River.

Video: Landfill manager discusses eagles

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Band confirms dead eagle as one of Alaska's oldest

A Kodiak Island bald eagle survived 25 years of Alaska hazards but met an unfortunate fate last month on the crossbar of a utility pole: electrocution.

Old Alaska eagle is put down

An elderly bald eagle from Alaska has been euthanized at the Smithsonian's National Zoo after falling ill.

Alaska Air pilot aborts takeoff after jet engine strikes eagle

An eagle was sucked into an engine of an Alaska Airlines jet as it was about to take off from Sitka on Sunday, causing the flight to be aborted.

Eagle attacks have Unalaska residents on alert

Residents of Unalaska have reported at least two eagle attacks within the past two weeks. Police on Wednesday posted warning signs near high-traffic nesting areas where eagles are known to dive-bomb passers-by.

Large, dive-bombing bird gives Aussie tourist a souvenir

Walking from the Cooper Landing Library toward the Wildman's store on the Sterling Highway just after 4 p.m., a bird Brian Hard believes was an eagle swooped down and dug its talons into his skull.

Eagle survives plunge during mating dance

An acrobatic display of passion proved too much for a pair of eagles engaged in a mating dance over Alaska's Prince William Sound.

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Dentist gives injured bald eagle prosthetic beak

An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak -- using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter.

Dentist to help bald eagle get his broken beak fixed

Dr. Kirk Johnson has convinced hundreds of young people to let him take an impression of their teeth. The process is similar, but a lot trickier, when the impression is being taken of the beak of a bald eagle.

Haines eagle foundation gets healthy donation

Before the Haines Bald Eagle Festival ended last month, problems seemed to stack one atop another.

Bald eagle that promoted Indiana state fair, parks dies

A bald eagle from Alaska that appeared in Indiana Department of Natural Resources shows at the state fair and state parks for many years has died.

Member of the 'Eagle nation' flies free after treatment

Several hundred people cheered the recent release of a rehabilitated bald eagle at the Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow on the Carlson Center lawn in Fairbanks.

Homer Spit eagles likely to be fed through winter

Rather than putting an abrupt stop to feeding the Homer Spit eagles after many winters' feedings by Jean Keene, the Homer City Council is likely to let Keene's program continue until March 27.

Homer's 'Eagle Lady' dead at 85

Jean Keene, the 85-year-old "Eagle Lady" whose feeding program drew hundreds of bald eagles and scores of nature photographers to the Homer Spit each winter, died Tuesday evening in her Spit home.

Wounded eagle gets a new beak

More than three years after a poacher in Alaska shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name -- with the help of volunteers.

Slimed eagles, save one, soon to return to Kodiak

After a brief vacation to the mainland where they've been fed, bathed, blow-dried and pampered, many of the eagles that made pigs of themselves in a seafood truck filled with fish guts will spend Valentine's Day back in Kodiak.

Slideshow: Cleaning fish oil-slicked eagles

Slimed eagles get baths, TLC in Anchorage

Slimed eagles get baths, TLC in Anchorage

The hot, humid air inside the warehouse smacked of fishy funk, giving away the 18 bald eagles tucked into kennels inside. They, along with 13 others still in Kodiak, were the lucky ones.

Slideshow: Cleaning fish oil-slicked eagles

Slimy eagles take to the air in plane rides to rehabilitation

The 30 bald eagles that survived a deadly feeding frenzy in a dump truck filled with fish guts are flying again. Era Aviation and Alaska Airlines are bringing the birds from Kodiak to Anchorage so they can be cleaned and cared for by the Bird Treatment and Learning Center before being returned to the wild.

Eagles plucked from fish guts doing well; release expected

Though two birds died overnight, most of the Kodiak eagles rescued Friday after becoming mired in a truck full of fish guts are doing well and will soon return to the wild.

At least 20 eagles die looking for easy meal

Dozens of bald eagles descended on a dump truck hauling fish guts at a Kodiak processing plant Friday and got tangled in the mess, leaving at least 20 of the birds drowned, buried or crushed, according to federal wildlife officials.