{"id":3361,"date":"2014-02-10T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:50","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":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Climate change has polar bears on egg diet\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h4 id=\"hungry-bears-devastating-seabird-nesting-colonies\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hungry bears devastating seabird nesting colonies<\/h4>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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>&nbsp;Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full article:&nbsp; <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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 &nbsp; 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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