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08/11/12
Appetites of Anhingas
Filed under: General, Birding & Outdoors, Florida & SE US, Birding "Patches", Wild Bird Wednesday, Bird D'pot
Posted by: Ken @ 12:45 pm

Anhingas are spear fishers. This calls for skilled swordsmanship because both mandibles are usually driven clear through the prey. The fish must first be weakened or killed, then flipped into the air and caught in its jaws so that it can be be swallowed head first. 

Photographed from a distance in the wetlands adjacent to our south Florida home, this Anhinga has captured a good-sized Red-eared Sunfish. Can she swallow it?

Anhinga with sunfish 01-20120808

Full screen Vimeo slideshow of Anhinga: Never eat anything bigger than your head

If video does not display, see it here at Anhinga with big fish: Never eat
anything bigger than your head
from Ken Schneider on Vimeo.

Anhinga with trophy 20110220

Another Vimeo slide show, this one of an Anhinga also
eating a large Red-eared Sunfish at Green Cay wetlands. This fish got
away but was quickly recaptured.

If video does not display, see it here at Anhinga at Green Cay from Ken Schneider on Vimeo.

How to  set Google Chrome to play flash plugins (such as You Tube) on demand only

This is my photo submission to the weekly Bird D’pot (Bird Digital Photography) meme at  I’D-Rather-B-Birdin’.



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