At this time, the Steller's sea eagle had already started fighting with the two albatrosses.
The Steller's sea eagle was seen crushing towards the two albatrosses like a king of the sky. The two albatrosses immediately panicked and flapped their wings hard, trying to escape into the distance.
But how can an albatross be as agile as a Steller's sea eagle
Albatrosses are one of the best gliding birds in the world, but they are not good at flying. In windless weather, albatrosses cannot even fly and can only float clumsily on the water like ducks.
There is a line in a song that says it is better to fly when the wind is against you, which is the most true portrayal of the albatross.
When the wind is right, albatrosses can glide behind ships for hours without flapping their wings, their wings' incredible length acting as extremely efficient airplane wings, allowing them to glide forward quickly.
But they need to take off against the wind. When there is wind, they can even fly against a Category 12 typhoon. When there is no wind, if they want to take off, they need to run wobbly with their short legs, or jump directly from the edge of a cliff. They cannot fly by themselves.
“Wow!”
Under the gaze of everyone, the Steller's sea eagle pounced directly in front of the smaller of the two albatrosses and grabbed it viciously with its claws.
“Gu—”
The other albatross immediately changed its course and rammed hard into the Steller's sea eagle.
Albatrosses are very loyal to love. Once a pair relationship is established, they will almost live together until one of them dies. Divorce or flying away when disaster strikes is almost non-existent among albatrosses. They are more devoted than mandarin ducks.
For example, now the Steller's sea eagle is pouncing on the female bird. The male bird did not choose to escape, but immediately turned around and fought desperately.
"Chiu—"
The Steller's sea eagle let out a loud eagle cry, as if it was very disdainful of its opponent, and actually collided head-on with the albatross.
Although albatrosses look big, they are actually very light. Even their bones are hollow. Some luxury brand stores sell pipes made of albatross bones at very high prices.
The Steller's sea eagle collided with the albatross, and the albatross immediately fell into the water like a kite with a broken string.
The Steller's sea eagle only glided to a higher altitude. It shook its head and turned around, continuing to attack the albatross as if nothing had happened.
A thrilling battle is about to take place here.
“Gu—”
“Gu—”
The two albatrosses folded their wings together and fell into the sea.
The albatrosses descended extremely quickly, and they dived into the water in an instant like two ospreys.
"Chiu—"
The Steller's sea eagle chased the predator to the surface of the sea, and even stretched one of its claws under the water.
Xiang Yang had just climbed to the top of the cabin with the squid and was about to call the Steller's sea eagle when he saw the Steller's sea eagle suddenly stop at the sea level, flap its wings vigorously, and lift itself into the air.
"Chiu—"
The Steller's sea eagles circled around the fishing boat over the sea.
Xiang Yang immediately relaxed when he saw this scene. He knew that there was no way the two albatrosses would fight with the Steller's sea eagle again.
Albatrosses are not only good at gliding, they are also very good at diving. They can even dive to a depth of more than ten meters underwater and swim freely. Their stomachs are very magical and can drink seawater directly.
Although the Steller's sea eagle can dive underwater, it can only dive a few meters at most, and it has to come up immediately after staying underwater for a while, and it cannot swim freely underwater.
The most important thing is that this Steller's sea eagle was once dragged to the bottom of the water by an octopus when it was hunting. As the saying goes, once bitten, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. It now has enough food, and the Steller's sea eagle will not rashly dive to the surface of the sea unless it has no other choice. At least Xiang Yang has never seen it go into the water again.
"Tiger head." Xiang Yang shouted loudly to the Steller's sea eagle in the sky.
"Chiu—"
The Steller's sea eagle responded to Xiang Yang, but did not come down from mid-air. It continued to hover at low altitude, constantly scanning the sea.
"We are going back, why don't you come down?" Xiang Yang continued to shout.
The Steller's sea eagle was still somewhat intelligent. When it heard what Xiang Yang said, it immediately let out an unwilling cry, folded its wings, and fell towards the deck.
Seeing this, Xiang Yang immediately threw the squid in his hand onto the deck.
The Steller's sea eagle held its head high and chest puffed out, like a victorious general, and walked very complacently to the squid. It stepped on the squid's head with its claws, lowered its head, and pecked and ate the squid's tentacles in a few bites, leaving only a bald squid head, which it pried with its claws and pushed into the sea.
Xiang Yang was suddenly shocked. Don't Steller's sea eagles eat squid heads? How come he didn't know that
At this time, Chen Qingsheng came over and said, "This Steller's sea eagle has been spoiled by the crew. It now only eats the softest squid tentacles. It also only eats the eyes and internal organs of some animals. It has become a picky eater."
Xiang Yang asked Chen Qingsheng to bring the Steller's sea eagle into the cabin, while he himself carefully searched for the two albatrosses on the sea.
Before the 19th century, the albatross' breeding grounds had a good living environment because they had no natural enemies on isolated islands.
But their numbers have been declining dramatically since sailors began to catch them in the 19th century.
First, one of the two albatrosses was hit by a Steller's sea eagle. If it was injured, Xiang Yang was willing to treat it, if not for anything else, so that the crew could see more of these spiritual seabirds at sea in the future.
As a result, Xiang Yang burst into laughter when he saw it.
I saw two albatrosses floating leisurely on the water, sharing the squid head that had just been thrown into the sea by a Steller's sea eagle.
Seeing this, Xiang Yang immediately threw another squid into the water.
Watching the two albatrosses finish eating the squid, Xiang Yang was sure of one thing, that is, the two albatrosses were really not injured.
After knowing this, Xiang Yang was completely relieved. He ordered the crew to turn the fishing boat around and head towards the dock.
This time, they decided to catch some turbot first, but they saw a battle between a fin whale and a sperm whale. After that, Xiang Yang didn't dare to let the crew go to the sea again, so he ordered them to catch some turbot.
Although the catch was not much, we did catch a sunfish and a killer crab, so it was a good harvest.
Xiang Yang was satisfied with the gains from this voyage. Although these gains were not comparable to his previous gains, he had originally come out this time just to bring new crew members out to test the waters. He had not expected to gain too much. He would be content if he could earn back the fuel costs.