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From: geek@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Chris Schmandt)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Suburban Raptors
Message-ID: <1130@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 89 05:10:42 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.032434.9233@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: geek@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Chris Schmandt)
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In article <1989Nov29.032434.9233@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kehaar) writes:
>...  Also, a red-tail
>will _always_ take apart it's prey on the ground, and never (at least that I
>heard of) carry the inedible remains of their prey around.

I don't wish to disagree with someone who obviously knows an
awful lot about raptors as Kehaar!  (interesting postings, too!).
But I've seen a Red Tail dismember a pigeon(?) in a tree (while
being mobbed by quite a crowd of crows.  I am not sure how much
was actually eaten at this location, though.

chris


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