Fish-starved eagles preying on piglets
Forced to find other food sources this winter, hundreds of resourceful bald eagles have traded their favored diet of fish for the other white meat. Contrary to their scavenging nature, hungry eagles are stealing live baby pigs from at least one Iowa farm.
Eagle-watchers have noticed dramatically lower numbers of the majestic birds along the Mississippi River this winter. Normally, scores, even hundreds, of the voracious raptors can be seen circling open water below the river’s dams, plucking out dead gizzard shad to munch on.