Yerrabi Great Crest Grebe - diet

[Wallaces <>]

As Con said, the fish being taken by the Great Crested Grebe today were considerably smaller, all about the same size as the one in the attached photo taken from a video. It also ate a ball shaped object which I could not identify – picture attached.

 

Steve

 

 

From: Denise Kay [
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2017 3:56 PM
To: Martin Butterfield
Cc: Con Boekel; Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Yerrabi Great Crest Grebe - diet

 

 

Quite few loaches in Giralang Pond at the moment.

 

This was taken January 2014 .

 

Denise

 

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On 28 Apr 2017, at 2:21 pm, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

 

For those like me who are not up to speed on Oriental Weatherloach, all is revealed here.  As they are regarded as a pest species one can only conclude "well done that Grebe".

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

 

On 28 April 2017 at 12:40, Con Boekel <> wrote:

This morning I observed the Yerrabi Pond Grebe capture and eat two Oriental Weatherloach. It caught both of them in the same tangle of branches in shallow water close to the shoreline (in the 'Pelican' cove). They were small by Weatherloach standards.  (By coincidence I observed a Little Pied Cormorant catch and eat a full-grown Oriental Weatherloach in Yerrabi Pond yesterday).

regards

Con



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