Giant Raptor Terrorizes Alaskan Village

An anonymous reader writes "A giant raptor, rumored to have a wingspan of 14 feet, has been spotted by a number of Alaskans in the general vicinity of Manokotak. There is speculation that the beast could be a Steller's sea eagle, but Phil Schempf, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is dubious: He says that no creature that large has flown in more than 100,000 years. Read about it in this Anchorage Daily News article, which notes that residents have been warned to keep their children indoors."

Comments

Taste like chicken.

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Man...just the idea of 13 foot wing span makes my lips start to twitch. UMMM....wings....hot sauce...FIRE UP THE GRILL!!!

Move along people, nothing to see here..

[tedDancin]

.. it's just our friend Steve Ballmer practising his new conference routine.

11-11.5 ft. wingspan for the Wandering Albatross

[Bob Bitchen]

Diomedea exulans has the largest wingspan, capable
of spending several months aloft hunting the ocean
and never touching land. They don't weigh as much as the Steller's but they are big. But they are
exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe one got very lost. Possibly blown off course by a hurricane. Maybe the russians have been busy with genetic experimentation. Or perhaps it's a Chernobyl migrant.

more alternate links (damn slashdot)

[diesel_jackass]

(yay news.google!)

Southwest Alaskans say bird is the size of a small plane
Seattle Post Intelligencer,WA
A super-sized bird in Alaska-Scripps Howard News Service
Raptor-like bird spotted in Alaska-Ananova
Southwest Alaskans say bird is the size of a small plane-Kenai Peninsula

Re:more alternate links (damn slashdot)

[GregWebb]

Southwest Alaskans say bird is size of a small plane?

OK, has anyone been observed looking up at the sky and asking 'Is it a bird? Is it a plane?'

Sorry...

Re:The end is near!

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

The top of the food chain no longer belongs to mankind!
No worries, mate. We haven't been on the top of the chain for a while.
Pray! Repent!
Methinks you mean: "Repent, prey!"

I belive it

[Perdo]

You only need to see one 300 pound halibut, 2000 pound moose, pumpkin the size of a truck, cabbage that you could roof your house with, ravens 4 feet tall, 30 pound king crab with 6 foot long legs and ouf course foot long buds to belive a story like this. I lived in Alaska 18 years and I do not doubt this one bit.

Everything is bigger there.