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Do bald eagles eat a lot?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

If they're hungry.

supplement. In New Zealand there used to be a Haast Eagle, Harpogornis moorei, which was the largest bird to have ever flown.

It arrived in NZ from Australia as a fairly ordinary sized eagle, but in NZ it had no competition, and as top predator it rapidly increased in size. It grew to have wings about 3m wide.

Its main diet was the large flightless Moa and similar. With the arrival of the Maori about AD1300, it now had a competitor who was even more efficient in killing.

It was known to snatch tiny children from Maori settlements, and eventually hunting parties were sent to kill it.

I have seen film of a Spanish Eagle that was able to snatch small goats from a cliff, then dropped them to kill them.

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15y ago

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