The Disputed Giant Bird - Washington's Sea Eagle

10 ft is big but a Condor is like that

I've seen a huge golden eagle in about 1971. It landed on top of a power tower. Its wings spanned all the power lines. So whats that? 15 or 20 foot wing span?
These so called experts ought to get up off thier fat lazy butts. Get out into the wild and make some actual scientific observations.

Dark morph Steller's sea eagle? Not quite as big, but still, big. Steller's generally live in eastern Asia, but have been seen numerous times in North America. Could their range have mostly shrunk?

You sure did a very professional vid here. Kudos.

To me, the fact that he named it after George Washington adds a lot of credibility to Audubon’s accounts. It just seems weird to name a made-up species in honor of someone you deeply respect. I really hope that one day a specimen of this bird turns up.

I don't think he made it up. I think it's possible there really were some specimans and they have become lost or destroyed. As to using a known image, I think he chose that pose because it was known and would work for what he hoped this bird would represent. Ultimately I think there was very few of these birds and not all those other accounts and claims are true. It's probable that Audubon did use the bird to gain support, but he didn't make it up. I could be completely wrong of course, but this is my feeling.

アメリカ人は「デッカイのが好き！」なんでも見た物はデッカク他人に伝える。同じ物を見たら自分が見た方が大きいと主張する。一山一獣、一湖一竜が当たり前のいい加減で適当な国民性、だから怪獣大国になった。

It should also be noted that in the middle of the 20th century, the bald eagle was almost extinct. Fewer than 500 nesting pairs were known to exist in the early 1960s compared to more than 71,000 today. A bird that was even more sensitive to human encroachment and pollution might easily have gone extinct before we came to our senses.

Years ago in Northeast Ohio while driving doing my work route in the morning I saw a huge black /dark colored bird that was standing in the road.. It took flight spreading its wings and they were wider than half the 2 lane street.. This bird was bigger than any I have ever seen in the wild.. It was not a turkey or buzzard or eagle which are common in my area and big birds in their own right.. I looked on the internet when I got home and the only picture and size of my sighting that was close was a condor but I have never heard of them ever being in Northeast Ohio..

Early Fall 1986, I encountered a giant brown colored eagle on a gravel road in western DeKalb County, IL. The body stood at least 4ft high (its head could have peered in my driver'sside window). It's the largest eagle I've ever seen. Easily 2X the size of a Bald Eagle. I obsrrved it for tens of minutes... it obsrrved me. Then I backed up and drove in reverse. It seemed I was interrupting it from feeding on something in the 8ft high cornfields. It would switch its attention from me to something in the cornfield.

I thought the largest eagle was the Haast eagle from New Zealand?

I. Have. Personally. Seen. One. In. Virginia.

Given what happened with the sauropod specimen in the american natural history museum as well as the red cat pelt, i say we fund expeditions to museum basements, not nature

Could he have also just found a color morph of bald eagle. Explains all but the size. Probably rare and blends in with adolescences. Remains would just be bald eagle remains. I assume bald eagles do t try to pair up with juveniles so it’d make sense that two of them found each other.

Audubon was an a$$h0! for shooting the bird. If he truly loved nature he would’ve shot it. Lost all caring.

wouldn't it be easy enough to ask the Natives if there was such a bird?

Why would Brits embrace a bird named after a rebel American President?

Anybody check cliff faces on the Great Lakes for nest sites?

I had never anticipated that the man hailed as a great conservationist was such an unmitigated jackass. Humans, first we discover, then we destroy.

Maybe, just maybe, Haliaeetus pelagicus used to be found in north america 150 years ago? They have been Seen there over the years, Most likely lost individuals, so maybe there was a very small Population at some Point in history?

Washington lays against the Canadian border. Could it be possible it was some kind of stellers sea eagle or maybe a subspecies of it? I don't see white on the wings or tail, but the beak is the same and paintings could be different from actually photo's. I know Washington is a far cry from Alaska that has a border to Russia, but I can immagine that a relict-population or maybe some vagrants could live in the Washington area before the region was more heavy populated.

How is it a sea eagle when it was witnessed in Kentucky, should be called a river eagle

I love how excited this dude got and described himself as a lover of nature, and his first thought after seeing a special bird is "I must shoot it!".
The past was... surely something.

Perhaps upon the plate the position was generic because in his writings his sightings were somewhat fleeting.

Could you refrence your sources were you got this information? Im conducting a study on the washington's sea eagle.

So eagle Bigfoot

My uncle who lives near the ohio river told me that he saw something similar after i showed him you're video and he pictured the eagle and it was masive it was like nothing i have ever saw i know animals very well but this wasen't bald or golden eagle nor steller's eagle sence he dosen't go there

Great video! Thanks for all the nature!

Audubon literally seen thousands of birds he’s more experienced than most…I think he would’ve known if it a just a golden eagle. Unfortunately I think it’s extinct, the natives speak of thunderbirds giant birds resembling eagles…

It kinda reminds me of the Thunderbird from native American legends. Its possible that this bird could be it.

I personally believe that it could of been real.

Wow! This video completely blew my mind. I just watched it today, and I can’t stop thinking about it… I’m not sure what it is exactly—maybe it’s the way you present everything so engagingly. I almost never leave comments, but I just couldn’t resist this time. It’s 4 a.m., and I’m still lying awake because of this Washington’s Sea Eagle—it won’t let me sleep!

As an illustrator and a huge fan of Audubon, I’ve seen that eagle illustration before but never really paid much attention to it. You’ve genuinely changed something in me today. I know it sounds a little odd, but discovering your channel has been such an exciting experience—I’m instantly in love with it.

I’d love to see more mystery-themed videos about animals, but honestly, this particular one really got to me. It’s still on my mind, and I can’t shake it. Amazing work!

It is called a Seagle

It’s crazy any of these modern ornithologists think they know better than Audubon. He is probably the greatest ornithologist who will ever live. A trailblazer the likes whom you only get once in history He knew what he saw. I think to be skeptical of his account is being skeptical for the sake of being skeptical.

One option that was missing is the white tailed sea eagle wich is larger than both bald or golen eagles, its mostly native to Europe asia and japan but can be found as far west as greenland. There could have been a north american population thats now extinct, but even if so audoban would have been exagerating still.

It was a turkey vulture some people just don't have a brain

Audubon was a huge racist and an absolute asshole.

I remember when I was a kid I saw a massive bird fly over our apartment in Everett Washington, me and a couple other kids told our parents but no one believed us, but my grandma told me it could have been a Thunderbird. Regardless this was a surprise to find, talk about a throwback =3

I live 15 min from his Park in Henderson KY. Think I have a few of his color books of nature.

Now i hate audubon. He just goes around taking out birds for his dumb drawings! Eagles mate for life, he left a path of destruction, some mate somewhere probably with chick's was waiting for their return! Too bad same couldn't be done to audubon or his mate. J.Off

Audubon sounds like a psycho.

Really hard to believe that like 5 museums and several unnamed zoos have had specimens of this species but not a single one remains or has ever been identified.

Another video showing another reason why scientists were wrong lol

as an artist, i honestly wouldn't even call the painting plagiarised. none of it is 1:1 or anything, and i suppose you could argue that it was possibly inspired by the original art, but honestly that pose seems like a pretty common pose to go to for an artist when depicting something like an eagle. it's interesting but still shows off most of the animal quite well. and putting it on a rock just makes sense. if you ask me, i really don't think it's that damning.

tiny braces emerald hummingbird specimen:not lost.A giant washington eagle specimen:lost

I'm quite sure that this bird existed. Trust this gentleman. Lots of open land a this time, and people did not pay as much attention to the natural world as they do now.

That bird is literally the same size as Haast's eagle of New Zealand which became extinct ~1400s?

Would an eagle hybridization be a theory? A lot of hybrids are larger than the two parent species.

Could these be the thunderbird from native American mythology?