In Search of a Golden Eagle | Paste editor JoshJackson on chasing rare birds
I left my house before dawn to look for an eagle. Actually, my first destination would be the site of a pair of Trumpeter Swans that had been reported up in Walker County, Ga., about 40 minutes from where a Golden Eagle has been spotted over several days this past week, not far from the Tennessee and Alabama state lines. Both the eagle and the swans would be what birders call “lifers,” birds I’ve never seen before.
Like most birds that people chase, these are common birds elsewhere in the country—just rare to see in the state of Georgia. At one point, though, Trumpeter Swans got dangerously close to extinction. In 1933, fewer than 70 individuals could be found in the wild, and North America’s heaviest bird looked like it was going to join the Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet and the Great Auk as extinct birds in this country.
After my first ever pitstop at a Buc-ees for their restrooms and a brisket breakfast burrito, I made my way towards Crawfish Springs Lake near the town of Chickamauga—best known as the site of the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War. As I left the interstate, I headed into rural northwest Georgia. This is Marjorie Taylor Green’s district, and signs proclaimed the returns of both Trump and Jesus.
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