{"id":3361,"date":"2014-02-10T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2014-02-10T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:54:15","slug":"climate-change-polar-bears-egg-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2014\/climate-change-polar-bears-egg-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change has polar bears on egg diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Hungry bears devastating seabird nesting colonies<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/cbc-news-online-news-staff-list-1.1294364\">CBC News<\/a> Posted: Feb 07, 2014 3:22 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 10, 2014 10:47 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Shrinking Arctic sea ice has left polar bears scrambling to find food, and they&#8217;ve taken to eggs in a big way, unfortunately for the birds.<\/p>\n<p>While some athletes may impress us by downing a mere dozen eggs for breakfast, a polar bear in the Northern Hudson Bay region can eat hundreds of seabird eggs in a sitting, report researchers from Carleton University and Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bear can essentially devastate all the eggs on an island,&#8221; said Samuel Iverson, lead author of the report, in an interview with CBC&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/\">Quirks &amp; Quarks<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/episode\/2014\/02\/08\/february-8-2014\/\">Hear the full interview with Samuel Iverson on Quirks &amp; Quarks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iverson, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology at Carleton University, recalled one rampage he witnessed in which a polar bear ate its way through an eider duck nesting colony with 300 nests, each containing about four or five eggs. The eggs were nearly &#8220;completely consumed within about a 48-hour period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just ground-nesting birds such as common eiders that are being targeted, the researchers report in a paper published this week in the journal <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For the full article:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/climate-change-has-polar-bears-on-egg-diet-1.2527740?cmp=rss\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/climate-change-has-polar-bears-on-egg-diet-1.2527740?cmp=rss<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungry bears devastating seabird nesting colonies CBC News Posted: Feb 07, 2014 3:22 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 10, 2014 10:47 AM ET Shrinking Arctic sea ice has left polar bears scrambling to find food, and they&#8217;ve taken to eggs in a big way, unfortunately for the birds. 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