Nutria don't just destroy wetlands, they're also raiding bird nests, scientists say

in nature •  7 years ago 

Eva Windhoffer had to lay down and “question life” after she saw the footage.

In a grainy nighttime video from a remote camera trained on a colony of nesting shorebirds, a scraggly nutria waddles into the frame. Then the shy, plant-eating rodent does the unthinkable.

“It tore a bird off its nest," said Windhoffer, a biologist who was conducting research on Raccoon Island, a barrier island on Louisiana’s coast. “Then it takes an egg and runs off.”

Sad article, the nutria shouldn't be in South Louisiana in the first place, they come from South America and completely tear up the wetlands. Now there's so many of them that it's out of control. :(

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https://www.nola.com/expo/news/erry-2018/06/c2f7801aae3245/nutria_dont_just_eat_the_wetla.html#incart_most_shared-environment

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