White-tailed Eagle: Diet

The White-tailed Eagle is opportunistic and eats:

• Fish (50–70% of the diet): pike, perch, salmon, whitefish — often taken at the surface.
• Waterbirds: Common Eider, Eurasian Coot, Long-tailed Duck, Common Goldeneye.
• Mammals: American Mink, pine marten, hares.
• Carrion: elk, seal and roe deer carcasses — extremely important in winter.

The White-tailed Eagle hunts both by seizing prey in flight and by stealing from Ospreys and other birds of prey ("kleptoparasitism").

More about the White-tailed Eagle

• Song & calls
• Breeding
• Nest & eggs
• In winter