They are not fight for dominance, they fight over the carcas, which was placed front of a photoblind, to make much easier to the photographers to capture some action.
This is why the smaller birds are there too, not because some fortunate accident, or curiosity!
This is a new trend in europe, started by a hungarian unethical bird photographer, who already fooled a lot of magazin and photo contest with his pictures!
Photographers and/or some business was build up on photo turism, are dig into the ground a photoblind with a one way mirror glass, so photogrpahers do not have to have any skill about the birds and nature, or wildilfe photography, because they are completly separated from the nature, sitting in a "room" behind one way mirror glass.
They are place a life stock carcas to the fornt of the photoblind and the birds of prey, and other meat eater birds like magpie and crow came to fed on it. So the photographers can shoot houndreds of pictures of action like this. It is impossible to not get least a few good shot, even you get a camera in your hands at a very first time, and you are in the nature at a very first time.
In a photoblind like this, even a blind person took pictures like this! It is true, it is happened!
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February 7, 2013
February 7, 2013
White-Tailed Eagles, Poland
Photograph by Sylwia Domaradzka, My Shot
I took this image during my last trip to Poland, where I was amazed by these birds. It seems like every one of them wanted to dominate the group. Displays of such mild aggression were very common.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
What Makes This a Photo of the Day? The first thing that grabbed me about this photograph was the obvious—the moment of interaction between the eagles. But after spending more time with this picture, I also came to appreciate the smaller birds on the periphery, like spectators at the main event. —Alexa Keefe, Photo of the Day editor
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