Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

Summary

A Canada goose successfully fended off a bald eagle in a rare 20-minute battle on a frozen lake in Burlington, Ontario.

Captured by photographer Mervyn Sequeira, the encounter took on symbolic meaning amid rising tensions between Canada and the U.S., sparked by Donald Trump’s trade policies and comments about annexation.

The confrontation paralleled recent national pride moments, including Canada’s overtime hockey victory against the U.S.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    841·
    22 hours ago

    Bald eagle = overrated and cowardly

    Canada goose = looks goofy but is a bloodthirsty killer when provoked

    Yup, this tracks.

    Edit to add more, because I feel like it: Bald eagles are basically vultures who occasionally fish. They are opportunistic scavengers. Canada Geese on the other hand are very chill, standing around in groups foraging in the grass, but are not afraid of anything. If you get too close they will not escape or even flinch — instead they will either hiss at you, threateningly walk towards you, or lunge at your face and fuck your shit up:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_qrUKKdmvA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMdhAFPWzFw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kT3yEhyPeg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgwmPUak70

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    251·
    23 hours ago

    Goose: *does goose stuff* (srs, don’t mess with geese)

    Eagle: This bitch crazy!

    • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
      6·
      21 hours ago

      Just post a bunch of geese as your border guards (and maybe international trade negotiators too?) and you’ll be fine. I feel they’re an underutilized Canadian resource!

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    19 hours ago

    Augury was a Greco-Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as “taking the auspices”. “Auspices” (Latin: auspicium) means “looking at birds”. Auspex, another word for augur, can be translated to “one who looks at birds”. Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes politically motivated augurs would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes.

    • NotLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      16 hours ago

      In England we have a rhyme about magpies, reading meaning into how many are together. 1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl and 4 for a boy. 5 for silver, 6 for gold. 7 for a secret never to be told. My friend would say good morning Mr magpie and salute them, I think that’s an old superstition too.

  • imvii@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 hour ago

    I think it should be legal to hunt bald eagles in Canada.

    Ok, I don’t really. I just think it would be funny watching the faces of MAGA as Trudeau announces it’s now legal to shoot them.

  • NotLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    16 hours ago

    Paganism is coming back to save us. Brb I’m going to chuck some knives in the river.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    391·
    21 hours ago

    For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice.

    Unlikely? Author has never met a goose it would seem.

    • thebigslime@lemmy.world
      31·
      19 hours ago

      If you’ve got a problem with Canada gooses, then you’ve got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      81·
      19 hours ago

      If you’ve got a problem with Canada goose then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that Marinate.

      • arctickako@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I think we should all take a good look in the mirror and ask ourselves, where we would be, without the Canada gooses.