Two gulls were photographed in a dramatic mid-air life or death confrontation with a bald eagle. The battle occurred over the skies of Alaska, according to the the U.S. Department of the Interior who took to Facebook on Tuesday to update their followers about the fight. Soaring through the air, the eagle was snapped with its feet holding one gull, which had its beak around the eagle's talon. A second seagull flew above, and nipped at the eagle's feathers trying to get the bald eagle to drop the gull which it had snatched from a nest. According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, 'David Canales captured this once-in-a-lifetime photo from his kayak on Prince William Sound in Alaska while on an 11-day expedition from Valdez to Whittier.'The life and death fight took place over Alaska as the three birds battled
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