RFI- Birds drinking habits

To:	Trevor Hampel <>
Subject:	RFI- Birds drinking habits
From:	(Andrew Taylor)
Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:09:28 +1100

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:55:56PM +1030, Trevor Hampel wrote:
> While talking to my daughter about birds over lunch today she asked me a
> perplexing question: do birds of prey drink?
> I must confess that we have never witnessed an eagle, hawk, kite etc
> actually drinking (that we can remember anyway).
> Do they get enough moisture from their prey to survive?

At least some raptors don't need to drink.  As well as the actual water
content of their food (might be ~75%),  "metabolic water" is produced
as a byproduct of metabolising  their food.

Andrew Taylor
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