tags: three eagles, National Geographic, international photography contest, image of the day
Image: Jose Hernandez,
Nature Honorable Mention,
2008 International Photography Contest [larger view].
The photographer writes;
This is a shot of three [bald] eagles fighting over a fish in Homer, Alaska, from March 2008. You can see the fish at the top of the image flying by itself, but it was caught in its fall by another eagle.
There's lots more gorgeous images here for you to enjoy!
GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 





















Comments
Toi = you
Trois = three
Ménage à trois = household of three
Posted by: pough | December 1, 2008 3:55 PM
thanks for the correction. i am having "one of those days" today. hopefully, it won't last!
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | December 1, 2008 4:09 PM
Thanks for posting this!
Posted by: Marilyn Terrell | December 1, 2008 5:22 PM
Honorable mention?
The photo of a lifetime... what won? An ostritch doing math in the sand with a stick in it's mouth?
Posted by: kamaka | December 4, 2008 8:39 PM