Platte River Ecology Study

Appendices

Appendix H. Prey items identified from egested pellets of bald eagles at roost sites in the North Platte and Platte River Valleys in Nebraska. (Only those items occurring in more than 1% of the collected pellets are included).

                                 Invertebrates

                                   crayfish

                                 Fishes
                                   
                                   gizzard shad
                                   carp
                                   quillback carpsucker
                                   redhorse
                                   catfish, unident.

                                 Birds
                                  
                                   Canada goose
                                   mallard
                                   pintail
                                   green-winged teal
                                   common merganser  
                                   buteo, unident.
                                   greater prairie chicken
                                   ring-necked pheasant
                                   American coot
                                   western meadowlark

                                 Mammals
                                   shrew,unident.
                                   blacktail prairie dog 
                                   fox squirrel 
                                   plains pocket gopher 
                                   white-footed or deer mouse 
                                   grasshopper mouse 
                                   meadow vole 
                                   muskrat 
                                   blacktail jackrabbit 
                                   eastern cottontail 
                                   pronghorn deer (mule and whitetail)  
                                   domestic sheep
                                   domestic cattle