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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by steve_adams_86 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:50PM (#26572081)
According to national eagle center, "The average eagle needs between ½ and 1 pound of food each day.". So those animals are harvesting 35-70lb of food (other animals) per day. That's incredible to me! There must be so much life in that area.

https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/eagle-diet-feeding/

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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:59PM (#26573534)
> So those animals are harvesting 35-70lb of food (other animals) per day. That's incredible to me! There must be so much life in that area.

I mean, you could almost certainly harvest more than 70 pounds of ants a day without making a dent in the ant population. Eagles can't eat ants, but "pounds of life" doesn't mean much.

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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by steve_adams_86 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:51PM (#26574644)
For sure, you're right, I just find it fascinating how much life is out there. If I try visualizing 70lb of small creatures for eagles to eat, it suddenly seems kind of crazy to think of all those creatures and so much life cycling in such a small area where these things hunt. The earth is just covered in life.
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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by bliteben on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:56PM (#26624742)
A lot of farmers dump oyster shells on their fields. This attracts quite a bit of gulls and seems related but I am not really sure what the food sources there are.

Also this is a seasonal occurrence.

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