Subject: Re: Mallard eating FISH
Date: Aug 15 08:58:30 1996
From: Peggi Rodgers - peggir at aragorn.ori.org
At 05:17 PM 8/13/96 PDT, Ingrid wrote:
......Has anyone else ever witnessed anything like this? Is it a normal
occurrence
>that I've just never seen before?
>
I've not seen it happen, but ducks are omnivorous and will take any food
they can catch. I imagine they eat little minnows quite a bit. Perhaps
this fish was a bit bigger than she expected! At any rate, they do eat bugs
by the tons so a fish doesn't seem unreasonable.
Peggi
Peggi Rodgers
Oregon Research Institute
Eugene, OR
peggir at ori.org
prodgers at efn.org
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