Video Of Deer Eating A Bird

Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own 2 eyes. Wonder if this deer has a cholesterol problem? Great video, thanks for sharing.
 
A little further research turned up an interesting article from Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Here is an excerpt:
No one has documented white-tailed deer preying on nests before either, she says. A few years ago, Canadian bird researchers capturing songbirds in mist nets reported deer eating songbirds right out of the nets. Although they also suspected the deer as nest predators, they could not confirm it.

But Pietz now has proof they are, at least in North Dakota. The deer her cameras recorded found the nests when they were grazing at night. They may have been attracted to the adult bird flushing as the deer approached. In both cases, the nests contained nestlings. But Pietz is confident that if a deer found a nest containing eggs, it would eat them too. "They don't have to be stealthy predators to take eggs out of a nest," she points out.

When she first recorded a deer eating nestlings, she wondered if they would eat eggs, too. She incorporated the help of a captive deer at the research center to find out. "We presented it with a few quail eggs -- just to see what it would do -- and it munched them right up."

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm

Seems it may not be all that rare.
 
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