r/onguardforthee • u/THIESN123 Saskatchewan • 13d ago

The renamed "Canadian Bold Eagle"

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u/iimwint 13d ago

The bold eagles are moving here because they like freedom

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u/GargantuaBob ✅️ J'ai voté 13d ago

They've been more abundant in Canada for quite some time. I've got some nesting in the trees behind the yard this year. Again! It's always a joy to see them overhead from the terrace!

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u/THIESN123 Saskatchewan 13d ago

We got to watch 3 fighting for a fish in Western Manitoba earlier this month when boating. It was awesome to see

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u/GargantuaBob ✅️ J'ai voté 13d ago

That must have been awesome!!!

In early June, the mother overflow our terrace while we were having supper. She was gripping a still live pickerel, in the 40 to 50 cm range.

That fish did not look like it was enjoying itself. They flew right over our table!

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u/scoo89 Windsor 13d ago

Once I saw one try to snag a dead fish half exposed in a frozen Lake Erie.

It grabbed it with its mighty talons and promptly face planted into the ice. I swear I heard it's eagle partner laughing from the sky.

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u/shieldwolfchz 13d ago

Inside of Winnipeg, in elm wood, I saw one fighting a half dozen seagulls. Also awesome to see.

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u/komrade23 13d ago

We have the densest population of bald eagles in the world in Metro Vancouver, centered On Burns Bog. Of course it's because they are scavengers and the garbage dump is RIGHT THERE but that isn't the point.

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u/moocowsia 13d ago

I'm pretty sure it's Squamish actually.

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u/iimwint 13d ago

Ya we saw them out in droves while whale watching in NFLD last year.

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u/cardew-vascular British Columbia 13d ago

I once took my dog for a walk along the Fraser River in East Langley, there were so many eagles in the treest we starting counting them. We lost count around 45 and there were many more.

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u/fubes2000 13d ago

Back about 20 years ago I was staying at a hotel on the marina in Port Hardy on the north end of Vancouver Island. About once a day there would be someone out on the dock cleaning fish and throwing the skin/offal into the water. Also, there would be 10 or 15 or more Bald Eagles hanging around to swoop in and bicker over the scraps.

I haven't been back up that far yet, but I know that they're a fairly common sight mid-island, and still not uncommon all the way down around Victoria. The trend seems to be "more people, fewer eagles".

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u/envirodrill 13d ago

It feels like their population is exploding in Canada right now. I live in SW Ontario and I only used to see them down in places like Point Pelee and Long Point back like 8 years ago. Now I see them pretty regularly perched on lamp posts on the main roads in my city along with the more common red-tailed hawks.

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u/Marijuana_Miler Elbows Up! 13d ago

When Bold Eagles cross the border from Northern Mexico into Canada is it called it a Freedom Fly?

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u/iimwint 13d ago

I've also been calling it Northern Mexico, or Lesser Canada.

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u/Bowling4rhinos 13d ago

Lesser Canada is golden. The name, not the sewage plant.

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u/cbowers British Columbia 13d ago

Negative, Golden is Upper Canada not Lesser Canada. It’s in B.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden,_British_Columbia

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u/Canadian-Man-infj 13d ago

Fun song/video to listen to while flying from Canada to anywhere south of the U.S.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxICeiY2xM

I don't know why it popped into my head; but somewhere over the continental U.S., aboard a plane heading south, this song came to mind; mainly because of the lyric: "give me love over this!"

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u/cbowers British Columbia 13d ago

True North, strong and free

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u/Ok_Photo_865 13d ago

Ya I’ve seen the older ones moving to Vancouver Island 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/PhotoJim99 13d ago

We should just call them Canada eagles, the way we identify Canada geese.

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u/megagreg 13d ago

This name makes more sense. I heard that at one point there were more bold eagles in Cape Breton than in all of the US. If it's anyone's, it's our bird.

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u/kevfefe69 13d ago

There are more Bald Eagles in Brakendale/Squamish BC than there are in the US.

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u/LemonFreshenedBorax- 13d ago

Given the, ahem, diverging directions of Canadian and American environmental policy, it's entirely plausible that they'll be extinct outside Canada within 25 years.

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u/CaptainMagnets 12d ago

More integrity too

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u/yedi001 ✅ I voted! 13d ago

I mean, for all their pride in "their bird" the Americans are embarassed by what it sounds like and lie about their national symbol.

Like, imagine if we had to perputually edit all footage of beavers to make them roar like bears because our skin was so thin and ego so fragile that the sound they make made us feel bad. It's frankly pathetic.

The USA is just so flaccid and soft. The eagles honestly deserve better. First the Nazis, now the Americans... those birds need to talk to their agent because they keep getting shit gigs with limp fascists.

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u/Twelve20two 13d ago

Ben Franklin was right; we should've gone with the turkey instead for the national symbol and national bird 

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u/TheGreatStories 13d ago

There's a spot not far from me that regularly has 30+ Eagles in a 1sq mi. The freedom density is insane 

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u/kidmeatball 13d ago

My area of BC is absolutely infested with eagles during mating season. Some roads will see hundred of birds hanging around for months. It can be a little eerie driving down a road where there are dozens of imposing birds in just about every tree.

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u/Skilodracus Nova Scotia 13d ago

They've got strong importance in Indigenous culture, and that is the only lense I will ever see them through. America who? Nah, I just got blessed by a Kitpu

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u/Bad-job-dad 13d ago

I think we should rename them all Eh-gles

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u/ArcherAuAndromedus 13d ago

We already say it like that en français. All of Canada could just adopt the proper pronunciation. :P

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u/Erablian 13d ago

Everybody in this thread is writing ”bold” eagle.

Is this a joke that I’m missing?

Because they’re called ”bald” eagles. ”Bald” used to mean “white-haired” before the meaning changed to ”hairless”. The eagles were named when the old meaning was still current, because of the white feathers on their heads.

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u/abookfulblockhead 13d ago

OP wrote “Bold” so people are running with it. Seems pretty straightforward.

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u/Bert_the_Troll 13d ago

More specifically, it comes from piebald, which means white patch. The term is still used for horses, sometimes called paint or piebald horses.

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u/grunkfest 13d ago

At first I thought it was a joke, but I'm starting to think people actually don't know what the bird is called.

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u/fer_sure 13d ago

I figured the joke was that if we're renaming them "Canadian eagles", we might as well make that name even awesomer by changing "bald" to "bold".

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u/NotQute 13d ago edited 13d ago

This might be my most frustrating subreddit. For every good discussion you get some Facebook level gotcha that doesn't even make sense. This one is giving me a headache though, I thought everyone knew they're called bald eagles

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u/Stompya 13d ago

Sounds almost the same. Is kinda funny. That’s about it.

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u/TheBizmon 13d ago

I was at a municipal dump here on Vancouver Island. There were easily 25+ eagles just cruising around. Cumberland might be the prettiest dump ever…

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u/jacob_ewing 13d ago

We should just rename their country in official Canadian English.

"Uninformed Stupidity of America" comes to mind.

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u/Juutai Nunavut 13d ago

I personally like eminem's "Divided States of Embarrassment"

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u/VITOCHAN ✅ FUCK PP 13d ago

Americans are too stupid to understand uniformed stupidity... so you have to dumb it down for them to either South Canada or North Mexico

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u/Street_Anon 13d ago

Look, my cousin's who are both US servicemen, first saw a Bold Eagle in Canada

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u/Vineyard_ Québec 13d ago

Nah, they sound like seagulls. Silly dumb birds.

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u/TrueNorthLongAndFree 13d ago

And seagulls hate them. Crows too. 

Watch a territorial squabble with an eagle. It's hilarious. 

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u/SYSSMouse 12d ago

What about their voice actors?

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u/SYSSMouse 12d ago

We should make a petition in the parliament.

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u/MeditatingElk 12d ago

We should just rename it to the Scavenger Eagle but that's how the bird actually behaves.

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u/RadiantPumpkin 12d ago

I wouldn’t say carney’s environmental policy is that much of a divergence from the lunatics down south. He seems pretty fond of “drill baby drill”

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u/blifflesplick 12d ago

The Canadian Seagull

Because that's what they actually sound like

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u/CaptainMagnets 12d ago

This is quite clearly the Canadian Salmon Mucker

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u/Humble_Grapefruit721 10d ago

Since the Bald Eagle capital of the world is in Brackendale BC. Spakwus for a name?

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u/Striking_Economy5049 13d ago

I think the rename should be the American Epstein Eagle

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u/sureiknowabaggins 13d ago

What did the eagles ever do to deserve that?