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hello and welcome to another episode of the american burning podcast from the american

birding association i'm nate swick thank you as always for listening i'm not going to officially

brand this story as birds in the news, partly because I realize now that I

inadvertently copied that segment from Mo and Sarah at the Bird shirt podcast. Sorry about that,

Mo and Sarah. I'll come up with something different there. Give me a little time. But this story

I'm going to talk about here is perhaps one of the most

sensational bird-related headlines I have ever seen, and that is by a significant margin.

I am no stranger to sensational bird-related headlines. This is from the Wall Street Journal

from the end of last week, published online and in print.

The article is headlined, Bald Eagles are back, and they want to eat your pets.

I'm just going to let that just sit with you for a while.

Evidently, the run of positive bird and burning stories that we saw in the last year is coming to an end, along with the pandemic.

We are ready to reinstate our antagonistic relationship with birds, especially the big, scary ones.

So I have some issues with this story, not least of which the credulity shown by the journalist here.

It talks a bit about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report that found that bald eagle numbers have quadrupled.

You may remember we talked about that last month on the this month and birding segment.

Then it jumps from there to make the claim that this increase has prompted anxiety in pet owners who are now dressing their small dogs

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