White-tailed eagle at . However, this is dwarfed by the largest avian prey credited to a white-tailed eagle, an adult male great bustard ("Otis tarda"), which weighed an estimated (which, much like exceptionally large fish taken, must have been consumed in the killing spot or subsequently dismantled as too large to fly with). Among the land birds taken, more than 20 passerines are included in the prey spectrum but most are obviously too small and swift to be anything but incidental prey. The smallest avian prey known for white-tailed eagles was a great tit ("Parus major"), a species which weighs on average.
Otis Norcross great-great grandfather of Otis Norcross, Jr., both of whom served as schoolteachers in the early Watertown colony ("see family tree below"). This Norcross blood-line extends further in perpetuity with Otis Norcross' great grandfather Peter Norcross (1710–1777) whose younger brother William Norcross (1715 – "ca". 1775), and his wife Lydia [Wheeler] (married 6 Nov. 1741), are the great, great grandparents of Otis' third cousin once removed American poet, Emily Dickinson; daughter of Emily [Norcross] and Edward Dickinson; granddaughter of Joel Norcross and Betsey [Fay]; and great granddaughter of William and Sarah [Marsh] Norcross. During the American Revolution, the Norcross family "served