Unusual prey, taken in Perth. I watched a large flock of Pelicans which took about 15 mins of relentless chasing, and fighting off the parent birds, before consuming two Shelduck ducklings.
Danny
From: Lindell <>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 6:01 PM
To: Wallaces <>
Cc: Canberra birds <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] RE: Large prey
May I too add my visions of birds with large prey. The weatherloach at Kelly's swamp went down very quickly but I didn't see what happened to the red-fins. It was a morning at West
Belconnen Ponds and the fish were really running with dozens of Cormorants on the chase as well.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 13:54, Wallaces <> wrote:
Thanks to everyone who responded. As well as examples of birds swallowing
very large prey whole, I got one example of minimal consumption of the prey:
a Purple Swamphen taking a downy Pacific Black Duck but only feeding the
eyes to its chicks.
Steve
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From: Wallaces [
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2019 4:44 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: Large prey
Sometimes birds take prey that seems too large for them to eat. Attached
photo shows a weather loach held by an ibis and a Baillon's Crake with
something I cannot identify. The ibis swallowed the weather loach while it
was still alive (see https://www.hbw.com/ibc/1562747 ). The crake ran into
the cover so I don't know if it ate its catch (see
https://www.hbw.com/ibc/1562929 ).
Large yabby's are also eaten by White-necked Heron (see
https://www.hbw.com/ibc/1194105 ).
I know that there are photos of pelicans with very large prey but I thought
I would see if people have photos/observations of other species with very
large or unusual prey.
Steve
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