FARK.com: (7203885) Baby golden eagle found burned in Utah wildfire has pulled through and may recover enough to fly one day, prompting his caregivers to name him Phoenix

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		Baby golden eagle found burned in Utah wildfire has pulled through and may recover enough to fly one day, prompting his caregivers to name him Phoenix (salon.com)		28
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brap		2012-07-09 02:02:10 PM

:(

I wanted to call him Smelty.

Or Tafffy. But I want to call all my pets Taffy.

brigid_fitch		2012-07-09 02:34:36 PM

Yeah, that turned out well for the last thing to be called Phoenix

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platedlizard		2012-07-09 02:38:17 PM

Seems like every other golden eagle gets named Phoenix. At least this one kinda earned it.

Golden eagle chicks are dicks by the way, they invariably kill their siblings.

unlikely		2012-07-09 02:42:12 PM

Later, he'll eat the D'Bari and have to be executed by the Shi'Ar

beantowndog		2012-07-09 03:01:26 PM

platedlizard: Golden eagle chicks are dicks by the way, they invariably kill their siblings.

Were the siblings named for other fake colleges?

platedlizard		2012-07-09 04:02:50 PM

beantowndog: platedlizard: Golden eagle chicks are dicks by the way, they invariably kill their siblings.

Were the siblings named for other fake colleges?

Nah, Concord is still around.

kingoomieiii		2012-07-09 04:10:12 PM

Hmm. I would have gone with Bernie.

MAYORBOB		2012-07-09 04:55:07 PM

If I found a burned eagle chick, I'd make it dinner.

Hermione_Granger		2012-07-09 04:56:41 PM

They should call him Fawkes.

Evil Mackerel		2012-07-09 04:57:54 PM

platedlizard: Seems like every other golden eagle gets named Phoenix. At least this one kinda earned it.

Golden eagle chicks are dicks by the way, they invariably kill their siblings.

I believe it started the fire.

strapp3r		2012-07-09 04:58:01 PM

MAYORBOB: If I found a burned eagle chick, I'd make it dinner.

when they are young, even their beaks are yummy!

danielscissorhands		2012-07-09 04:59:05 PM

The Phoenix has risen from the ashes.

Other Phoenixes not so much...

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LeroyBourne		2012-07-09 05:02:15 PM

I loved how they had to ask for it to be removed. It's just laying there, smoking, in pain, crying, and they're on the horn going threw hoops to give the poor creature aid.

RumsfeldsReplacement		2012-07-09 05:03:03 PM

An Eagle who got burned? Should probably name him Nnamdi.

Russ1642		2012-07-09 05:03:45 PM

Philameena's a better name

monstera		2012-07-09 05:03:52 PM

Poor thing is going to have an identity crisis.

Gunz_drawn		2012-07-09 05:05:40 PM

As a former resident of Phoenix, I wish Phoenix, Scottsdale, Glendale and Moon Valley would all DIAF.

/ Prescott is cool though.

Somaticasual		2012-07-09 05:07:18 PM

Sources say his recovery has waxed and waned..

BKITU		2012-07-09 05:07:25 PM

Russ1642: Philameena's a better name

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Some 'Splainin' To Do		2012-07-09 05:08:02 PM

unlikely: Later, he'll eat the D'Bari and have to be executed by the Shi'Ar

Then, after that, it'll turn out that the golden eagle wasn't really the phoenix in the first place, but that it was cocooned and dropped into the ocean and then...

You know what, never mind. None of that other stuff ever happened.

MoronLessOff		2012-07-09 05:10:34 PM

http://www.fark.com/comments/7202110/Phoenix-rehabilitated

Gyrfalcon		2012-07-09 05:15:58 PM

LeroyBourne: I loved how they had to ask for it to be removed. It's just laying there, smoking, in pain, crying, and they're on the horn going threw hoops to give the poor creature aid.

Golden eagles are a protected species. There are restrictions on who can take one, and why. In some cases, it may also be better to allow a creature to die as opposed to taking it out of its environment.

You may not agree with all that, but those are the reasons why they did what they did.

Chinchillazilla		2012-07-09 05:18:27 PM

unlikely		2012-07-09 05:18:47 PM

Some 'Splainin' To Do: unlikely: Later, he'll eat the D'Bari and have to be executed by the Shi'Ar

Then, after that, it'll turn out that the golden eagle wasn't really the phoenix in the first place, but that it was cocooned and dropped into the ocean and then...

You know what, never mind. None of that other stuff ever happened.

But then it will all be messed up when the eagle's daughter comes back from the future to help the Forest Service fight the Sentinels and a US Senator and brings some weird cyborgs with her and then ... er... I honestly couldn't follow it after it got all retconned and retwisted and redone and re-conned and Cabled and ... yeah.

belhade		2012-07-09 05:21:50 PM

Hermione_Granger: They should call him Fawkes.

This was my thought as well, but better expressed by one with an appropriate username.

thursdaypostal		2012-07-09 05:42:12 PM

No pictures?

BKITU		2012-07-09 05:55:56 PM

thursdaypostal: No pictures?

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saturn badger		2012-07-09 06:25:16 PM

Unfortunately one of the Decorah eagles was not as lucky. I watched them grow up. Very cool to see.

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