On 07/05/2009, at 11:10 , Chris Baxter wrote:
Lake Eyre North in year 2000, studying an 18,000 pair Banded Stilt
breeding
event, an Australian Pelican would walk into the edge of the colony
each day
and help itself to newly hatched chicks. It would devour a number of
the
fluffy white young by snatching them up in its beak and then
gobbling them
There are at least a couple of You Tube videos of Pelicans eating
Pigeons so it's not terribly surprising to learn they have learnt to
predate on hatchlings. If you search 'pelican eats pigeon' on you tube
it gets a few videos but mostly of the same one - warning this might
upset some people - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5ifLzLYiU (this
one is in St James park London) and there's this one in Ukraine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_creuAf-t0
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