Pishing A Golden Eagle
What happens if you pish at a golden eagle:
This is Andi, one of the education birds at The Raptor Center. She's an adult golden eagle and we know she is female because of her large size (in the raptor world, females are larger than males) and each spring she lays an egg (it's unfertilized, it's just that her hormones are ready to make an egg). She was found injured during a snow storm. Her injuries were consistent with a collision with power lines. When she was brought in, she had porcupine quills all over her face. Though none were in her eye, as she recovered, her left eye clouded up with scar tissue and is now blind in that eye (we speculate that a quill did get in there and she got it out before she was captured). That combined with a permanent wing injury makes her unreleasable and she will spend the rest of her life at TRC.
This is Andi, one of the education birds at The Raptor Center. She's an adult golden eagle and we know she is female because of her large size (in the raptor world, females are larger than males) and each spring she lays an egg (it's unfertilized, it's just that her hormones are ready to make an egg). She was found injured during a snow storm. Her injuries were consistent with a collision with power lines. When she was brought in, she had porcupine quills all over her face. Though none were in her eye, as she recovered, her left eye clouded up with scar tissue and is now blind in that eye (we speculate that a quill did get in there and she got it out before she was captured). That combined with a permanent wing injury makes her unreleasable and she will spend the rest of her life at TRC.
posted by birdchick at 8:13 PM
13 Comments:
sounds like she is pishing back!
Number one: she is gorgeous, and damn if she isn't trying to find that little bird that is in her mew!
Number two: You have stones to do that to a golden eagle.
Number three: She's gorgeous.
What is pishing? I'm not a birder and have seen you use the term before. What does it mean?
not just in the raptor world... ;(
LOVE that vogue she strikes right before the end of the clip - very smug
what a cool thing TRC exists to help give a beaut like her the 2nd chance she needs and give us the opportunity to learn about em :-)
Strange: she sounded a little like a mocking seagull.
Beautiful! Beauty and strength. That's all I could think of while watching this. And how exciting it would be to get so close to this beautiful creature.
I pished a bengal tiger in the Bronx Zoo once. This was back when they had cages, and it stopped pacing at the sound.
I didn't know it was called pishing in those day, I was just using the sound I learned to get a cat's attention, but it sounded the same as on your recording.
Susan,
I'm not actually in the mew with her, I'm just outside and have zoomed the camera so you can't see the mesh.
megj,
every time I write the work pish, someone asks what it is. If you note in the blog entry, it's highlighted red. That means it's linked to another page. If you click on the word pish, it will take you to an explanation of pishing.
She makes all kinds of strange noises. I don't know if anyone caught it, but at the end of the recording, you can hear a bald eagle in the next mew squeaking.
That was a bald eagle making that sound?! Wow. Thanks for sharing this--I love to see large birds react to things. It reminds me of my parrots!
Do that here, and the cats will be asking for dinner. Does Mr. Neil pish his cats ? Even my dog reacts to it.
kitmarlowescot2
Pish a cat and they will come to you too. Try it with Mr. Neil's. Even my dog responds to it.
kitmarlowescot2
That was cool. I didn't know you could make a pishing sound around raptors. I thought it was only "reserved" for songbirds. Thanks.
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