White-tailed eagle known to prey on the critically endangered, native European mink ("Mustela lutreola") (perhaps due to its shier habits) which the American mink are known to have been outcompeting in some areas (but the European has mainly declined due to massive overhunting by humans as a furbearer). Kits of larger mammals such as Eurasian ("Castor fiber") and North American beavers ("Castor canadensis") (introduced) and of European badger ("Meles meles") have been found as prey. The most widely reported mammalian prey known (albeit usually as a supplemental prey species) in the non-native muskrat ("Ondatra zibethicus"), which averages about , and may be
River Meles on its banks. No fewer than six small streams flow into the Gulf of İzmir between the northeastern tip of its outlying waters, where old Smyrna was built, to the city's ancient hilltop castle commanding the inner Gulf's southern shores (Kadifekale today, Pagus and Mount Pagus in ancient times) on the slopes of which, according to tradition, Alexander the Great had the dream of refounding a new Smyrna. Among these, the stream which rises ten miles south of the castle and flows round the base of its mountain had acquired the name of Meles in modern times and kept it