• Question: would eating and eagle taste nice?

    Asked by johntheunicorn to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Grant Campbell

      Grant Campbell answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Probably not – I imagine their meat could be quite tough as they are quite muscley birds, and meat is more tender if it has some fat in it.

    • Photo: Rachel Edwards-Stuart

      Rachel Edwards-Stuart answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      I agree with Grant. I imagine it would be very tough. They are quite heavy birds so they would need lots of muscle to fly. Muscles are attached to bones by connective tissue, so the more an animal moves its bones and muscles the more connective tissue there will be and the tougher the meat is (think of how chicken legs have such a different texture to chicken breast). Flavour wise I think it would be quite gamey, like pheasant or pigeon.

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