[Tweeters] Do Cooper's eat rats?

[Shelf Life Community Story Project]

I hate it that they're hunting and eating rats in places like downtown
Seattle, because those rats are surely carrying large amounts of
rodenticide in their systems. Too many Cooper's carcasses (whatever the
cause of death) have rodenticide present in their tissue.
Jill

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024, 9:05 AM Stephan Fjelstad <stephanfjelstad at gmail.com>
wrote:


> I've also seen a Cooper's take full-grown Norwegian rats twice down on the

> Seattle waterfront near the Aquarium on the east side of Alaskan Way.

>

> Stephan Fjelstad

>

> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 9:30 PM Paul Bannick <paul.bannick at gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>> I have seen them take large Norway Rats in Discovery Park

>>

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>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 7:48 PM Thomas Einberger <teinberger at gmail.com>

>> wrote:

>>

>>> Cooper's Hawks eat small rodents, but are rats small enough?

>>> The Cooper's have seemed interested in the rats that need to be eaten out

>>> the window, but is this a last resort for them if no other food is

>>> available? The rats aren't particularly afraid of the Cooper's.

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