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Eagles, at least this one, don't carry their food away if they can help it. Eat it while it's still warm, apparently.
Betcha it's to conserve energy.
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Do they regurgitate the food to their chicks then, or do they carry the meat there in the case of chick-feeding?
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Do they regurgitate the food to their chicks then, or do they carry the meat there in the case of chick-feeding?
Like other birds, they carry the food to their young externally.
search for "shredding"
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not all birds carry food to their young externally.
there is the sea bird that reguratates a slime (gelatious mess) that is the basis for 'birds nest soup'
pidgeons regurate 'pigdeon milk' for their young..
and other other birds that do the same thing.
some birds regurated food (basically undigested) from their crop, (which i supposes, technically is not quite regurated) others start to, or completely digest the food before regurating for their young.
(eagles and hawks often bring live (but with a broken back) prey to their nest, so the young can play with their food before they eat (as cats often do with animals they prey on!)
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Thanks, Father Steve! And thanks, themilum, for the motivation to find this: The Mesozoic Era shop manual
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>>other<<
>Like other birds..
I know that we don't (often) veer into word threads down here; but just for fun:
a) how many read this as "Like some other birds," or b) how many read this as "Like all other birds."
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You are forgiven, tsuwm, for your interjection of "word questions" into this zoological sector of the Awad board. Personally I think that the phrase "like other birds" is purposely indefinite. We need "indefinites " when we speak in order to keep from espousing disruptive digressions in the name of scientific nit-pick. Now. Why is it tsuwm that you don't like birds? 
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there you go agin, milum; reading things into other things.
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Like other birds, they carry the food to their young externally.
I had interpreted this as meaning B) like all other birds and was beat to the regurgitation post by OT.
I've seen a few bird documentaries and the birds were fed by regurgitation. I had thus wrongly assumed, as I see now, that chicks were like humans in that they had to be fed mush before solids. I now see it depends upon the bird type.
Dunno why, but I find that stuff interesting.
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