BellaOnline Forums News and Politics Animal Life Guess who's coming to dinner...and guess what he's eating?!!

The bald eagle has made an appearance in Canada's east coast province of Newfoundland. But new studies show that his diet is not what you might expect...Listen to what Bob McDonald, host of my favourite Saturday Science show on CBC radio, called Quirks and Quarks, found out:

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/media/2003-2004/mp3/qq-2004-03-13d.mp3

Shelley, I have been trying to listen to this all day. It seems to get get stuck on "tuning in". Don't know if it is my computer or the program.

So, please tell me, just what are these honored bird eating?

Rose

Rose, the eagles have been spotted preying on newborn caribou calves!! A local Newfoundland biologist had started to notice this unusual behaviour and has begun a study to track them and try to discover just why the sudden shift in diet.

I will try to see if I can find a different link to get you to the audio interview. It's really quite interesting. I just tried the above link again and it is still ok, for me. Perhaps it is your computer but let me see if I can find another. If I do, I'll edit it into this message.

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Rose, try this one:
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/03-04/mar13.html

Scroll down to the *Bald Eagle* segment (I think it's the third story down) and click on the *mp3* link. Hopefully, that will work for you.

I'm going to wait until I get to school on Monday and pull up that site. I know my old dial-up connection at home will be way to slow. Then I'll get tired of waiting, go and do something "for just a minute" while I wait, get distracted, then 3 hours later wonder why I haven't had any calls all day and suddenly realize I've left the internet connection on. Anyone else do stuff like this?

I thought your first link didn't work because just a strange, almost empty screen opened up. I then tried the second link, following your instructions, and the same thing resulted. Undaunted by two failures, I clicked on the RealPlayer symbol in the upper right of this open, almost empty screen, and when a little window opened, I clicked on the "Play in RealPlayer" option. Then I was in business. With the high-speed connection I waited just seconds to be able to listen to the entire bald eagle/caribou calves segment. I guess one positive thing about this diet shift is that the number of caribou calves affected is still in the "relatively few" category.