Date: 10/8/24 2:59 am From: Norman Budnitz (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Red-shoulder eats roadkill?
Birds of the World has these references for Red-shouldered Hawks eating
carrion. Apparently not a common occurrence.
Palmer, R. S. (1988h). "Red-shouldered Hawk." In Handbook of North American
birds, edited by R. S. Palmer, 413-429. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Dykstra, C. R., J. L. Hays, M. M. Simon and F. B. Daniel. (2003). Behavior
and prey of nesting Red-shouldered Hawks in southwestern Ohio. Journal of
Raptor Research 37 (3):177-187.
Pranty, B. (2002a). Red-shouldered Hawk feeds on carrion. Journal of Raptor
Research 36 (2):152-153.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 10:54 PM <badgerboy...> wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen this happen? I was pretty surprised to see a full
> adult Red-shouldered Hawk tearing strips off of an obviously
> road-killed, large adult opossum, and gulping them down, in Wilkes
> county along Elk Creek Road today. Pretty sure I never saw this before,
> and a quick net search found a 2002 paper by Bill Pranty detailing his
> surprise finding of same in Florida, but little else was found.
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> I would be very happy to hear of any personal anecdotes or references
> where this behavior was seen or mentioned.
>
> Thanks, Guy (McGrane, Boone, NC)
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