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Research has found that deer eat bird eggs and live birds
Posted on 3/17/15 at 10:58 am
Posted on 3/17/15 at 10:58 am
This is the second article I have seen on this subject in the last week or so. The other article was on the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch facebook page. I can't seem to find it though.
LINK to F&S article and video of deer eating a live bird
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch
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Researchers keep on finding evidence that deer like a protein snack of bird from time to time. Deer eating birds opportunistically seems to be a wider-spread phenomenon than we previously thought. Scientists in North Dakota watching song birds via “nest cams” in a recent study found whitetails raiding more nests than either foxes or weasels.
LINK to F&S article and video of deer eating a live bird
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch
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Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:01 am to eyepooted
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whitetails raiding more nests than either foxes or weasels.
wow!
I suppose I need to practice my songbird chick call.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:03 am to eyepooted
I hear that deer do this in areas where they receive less calcium (they chew on the bones for calcium intake).
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:37 am to ChatRabbit77
Posted on 3/17/15 at 1:18 pm to eyepooted
I had a small doe milling around under my stand back during the season and the only reason she left was because she was chasing a finch or something out of the clearing. I thought she was just playing with it because she was so young, I guess she was trying to eat it.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 1:30 pm to eyepooted
So the boom in the deer population is what's leading to the decline in the bob white population.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 1:44 pm to Bleeding purple
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I suppose I need to practice my songbird chick call.
Or just throw out egg shells as bait.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 7:24 pm to 4X4DEMON
I have seen deer eating fish around a pond that was recently drained. I am talking about 7 deer all feeding on dead fish.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 10:05 pm to eyepooted
Posted on 3/17/15 at 10:09 pm to highcotton2
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7 deer all feeding on dead fish.
I only shoot rice field deer
The other ones taste fishy
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:47 pm to Croacka
I can already see the commercials now,"eat more venison"
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:21 am to eyepooted
Always heard that Bucks get a sort of osteoporosis when growing their antlers. Also imagine a doe will have major mineral deficiencies during gestation
Posted on 3/18/15 at 9:01 am to highcotton2
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I have seen deer eating fish around a pond that was recently drained. I am talking about 7 deer all feeding on dead fish
Damn. Where was this?
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