Talk:Bighorn sheep

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An Eagle?

From the characteristics section: "Bighorns are well adapted to climbing steep terrain where they seek cover from predators such as coyotes, eagles, and cougars. "

Was this some kind of joke? I do not believe bighorns face predation from eagles. Furthermore, how would climbing up a slope provide any protection from an airborne predator like an eagle? I think the word "eagle" should be eliminated unless someone can offer some reference to support the claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.74.90 (talk) 22:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not a joke but until they are a certain size, eagles can easily take lambs. In fact a lot of birds can kill the lambs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.26.109.139 (talk) 07:01, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not true, the lambs are just too large, an eagle has trouble handling some trout, and grown house cats prove too large for them to handle, the california condor would be a considerable danger if it wornt for the fact that they dont kill their pray.

I have seen an eagle knock a mountain goat off a ledge to its death. It can happen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.107.91.66 (talk) 20:37, 5 August 2013 (UTC) Bears should be in in this list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.124.92.254 (talk) 21:31, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We have large birds of prey in Ohio -- including eagles. they are not capable of eating small dogs, much less big horn sheep lambs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.186.139.101 (talk) 14:35, 21 August 2011 (UTC) I have seen an eagle pick a lamb up from a field, and lift it all the way to the top of a tree. Sheep producers in our area of BC have problems with bald eagles that pick up poultry and lambs. Occasionally golden eagles will kill larger lambs, and there are reports of small animal kills in Alaska by golden eagles. On youtube there is a video of an eagle knocking a wild goat off a cliff, then going down to eat it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Firhillfarm (talk • contribs) 17:39, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, an eagle. I did a bit of research and it seems that eagles do capture lambs. I found a news article about domestic lambs and government resource regarding Bighorn Sheep. Jesseraekern (talk) 14:57, 29 March 2020 (UTC) ^[1] ^[2][reply]

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Scouting

The section on scouting feels rather out of place. I don't doubt that the efforts of the boy scouts might have helped conserve bighorns in Arizona, but it seems like a level of detail beyond what is present in other sections of the article, and more detail than in most other Wikipedia articles I've seen on wild animals. There are surely countless other conservation efforts of equal or more importance that have occurred elsewhere in bighorn sheep range, so why devote an entire section to this one? My suggestion would be to remove this section from the article, and perhaps replace it with a new section that discusses conservation from a broader perspective. BiasOnTheOddByte (talk) 01:37, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I trimmed the Scouting material down to a short paragraph, and renamed the section "Conservation".~~I've marked the section as needing expansion: it would be great if multiple editors can collaborate to expand the section.~~ — hike395 (talk) 19:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/09/remarkable-photograph-eagle-carrying-helpless-lamb-sparks-fear/

[2] ttp://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/frpa/iwms/documents/Mammals/m_bighornsheep.pdf

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