Attack bird seen tossing baby goat off cliff

The world today can produce some pretty scary things and what might be scary to one person might not have the same type of influence on someone else. This post is about that contrast.


Did you know that there is what I call an "attack bird' out there that grabs small goats and tosses them off steep cliffs to kill and eat them? As you'll see in the video, no one is more scared than the parents as they watch there offspring get muscled off the side of a cliff. Keep in mind that these birds that are known as the Golden Eagle live all around the globe and while it's not very likely, a small toddler weighs about the same as a young goat...and in this world, eventually everything becomes possible.

The Golden Eagle is known as a bird of prey and can grow quite large especially the females as they are always bigger than the males. The average wingspan is about 7 feet and the bird standing up averages about 3 feet, and that's just the average specs, not the biggest.

The Golden Eagle caught my attention because of it's diet. Many small animals fall victim when this attack bird is hungry.

A hungry Golden Eagle will eat...

• mice
• rats
• birds
• hawks
• owls

But when they're really hungry they'll eat...

• foxes
• wolverines
• young deer
• lambs
• goats

The way these attack birds hunt is interesting.  They have very powerful eyes which allow them to see prey from very far away.  Their weapon of choice is usually their long sharp talons that have no problem cutting and tearing their prey apart.  There are times when the Golden Eagle will use some type of tactics to hunt down their prey. 

The male and female have even been known to work as a team by the male bird driving or luring their prey into the direction of the awaiting female, or as you'll see in the video below, tossing them off cliffs.