All that white on him, of course that's bread! Eat away~

I don't think he needs any encouragement to gulp the rat down. ;)

Great series, and must agree that birds are some of the best 'live vore' predators in the real world , even a duck. This one reminds me of a farmer friend who has a big drake mallard that follows him when he heads for the barn, and when he moves bales of hay, the mallard snatches and gulps the many mice hiding under them.

Heh. I know. It's so cool to see ducks eat small critters, as it really is so unexpected. Just makes them that much more awesome of a predator. :)

Indeed. If ducks were extinct today, scientists might dismiss them as "harmless plant eaters" as they do the huge sauropod dinosaurs which are also related archosaurs and do largely consume plant material. I suspect "duck billed" hadrosaurs and sauropods would be just as omnivorous as their avian cousins if they encountered prey animals small enough to swallow. The same thing with 'vegetarian' Iguanas, they relish small animals more than any vegetable food. The big Brachiosaurs in Jurassic Park would have loved to gulp down those little kids feeding them branches in the tree, much to the horror and surprise of the paleontologist assuring the kids the beasts were 'harmless veggiesauruses'.

I love ducks