birding-aus more heron behaviour

["sonnenburg" <>]

Did anyone else see the Striated Heron on the Great Outdoors or some
similar show a couple of weeks ago?  It was at a resort on the Tweed River,
northern NSW/Queensland border.  It collected a piece of bread and dropped
it in the water, waited until fish came to feed on the bread and then
grabbed one.  Innovative creatures aren't they.  At a spot near where we
live in inner surburban Brisbane (Kalinga Park), people excessively feed
the ducks (Anas superciliosa), turtles and eels with bread and a couple of
Striated Herons seem to be doing a similiar thing.  They wait until fish
are eating bread and grab the odd one.  These birds are still relatively
shy.

Cheers 
Roy Sonnenburg
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