Wild Bald Eagle "catching a nutria in the water"

[Bird_Dog]

Saw this short video on you-tube.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/87xNpOYOlQ4?rel=0

-- Scott

[Hawkmom]

With the stories of nutria bites on raptors. I wonder how the eagle's feet and legs are? We will never know.

[FredFogg]

How you can tell it is a nutria, I have no idea? And what ever it was, it appeared to be already dead!

[Dirthawking]

How you can tell it is a nutria, I have no idea? And what ever it was, it appeared to be already dead!

I thought the same thing.

[goshawkr]

How you can tell it is a nutria, I have no idea? And what ever it was, it appeared to be already dead!

Nutria are essentially a giant muskrat.

There were a couple times that the eagle popped the thing out of the water, and it definately fits the profile of nutria. Especially when the scale of size compared to the eagle is considered.

It could also be a large drowned housecat for that matter.

[Dirthawking]

Could also be a opossum for that matter.

[AK Rev]

Whatever it was, it wasn't biting any more.

[GONEHAWKN]

its clearly a drowned Chupacabra......look closely....

[Bird_Dog]

How you can tell it is a nutria, I have no idea? And what ever it was, it appeared to be already dead!

I based it only on the comments of the person making the video who said it was a nutria. Could be a beaver, too. Don't know what transpired prior to the beginning of the video - perhaps the eagle killed it earlier somehow or it's carrion.

-- Scott