Ja mazajam ir ievainojums, tad pavisam bēdīgi (video negribu skatīties).
Tad jau jāsaka, ka labāk būtu, ja tas viss ātrāk beigtos.

Raven komentārs: https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 74#p853374Liz01 wrote: ↑11 May 2022 12:38 There is a good comment on my video YT- channel
Golden Eagles practice obligatory siblicide. In other words, if more than one sibling hatches in a Golden Eagle next, only one survives. There could be a rare exception but this is genetically encoded behavior in this type of eagle. A slowdown in food can provoke more aggressive behavior, but alas, the end of one eaglet is pretty inevitable here. Hopefully the suffering will end soon.
that is what we have seen, and I have interpreted it at the same way. This food deprivation triggered what I was waiting for.
Since we cannot weigh or accurately measure the amount of prey biomass that is actually making it into the stomach of any of the birds, and as we can only observe a single pair, we can only speculate what is occurring in our beloved Soomaa nest. The fact that Helju devoured her own egg last season, hints that food availability may be an issue in this region as well. Kotkaklubi mentions food shortage being a possibility for the behavior on their website.
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, citing various papers, states: "Conflicts between siblings occur frequently and occasionally result in siblicide, particularly when food is limited (78, 530, 2). The notion that only one of two nestlings ever survives (48) is incorrect (but it is likely true for Bonelli’s Eagle [Aquila fasciata], Verreaux's Eagle [A. verreauxii], and other species of Aquila eagles; see Table 4 for details on brood sizes of Golden Eagles).
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