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Do eagles eat dead animals?

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Here is an eagle I'm feeding rat to. Clearly the rat is not alive. Eagles get a fair percentage of their food from carrion. read more

Bald Eagles eat mostly fish, both dead and alive. Dead or dying fish, washed up on shore, are a favorite food. Other foods include: ducks, snakes, turtles, muskrats, rabbits, frogs, fawns (baby deer), mice, snails, other birds, vulture vomit, and carrrion. read more

Quick Answer. Eagles are carnivores, which means that they feed only on meat. Some species of eagles are scavengers, which means that they primarily eat fish and animals that are already dead. read more

Bald eagles will take advantage of carrion (dead and decaying flesh), giving it a scavenger image, which causes some people to dislike eagles. Other people do not care for powerful and aggressive birds; while some object merely on the grounds that it is a bird of prey which kills other animals for food. read more

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