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Green heron baiting fish (1 Viewer)

halftwo

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Did anyone see the Green heron picking up bread & feeding fish with it, then successfully catching a fish that had come to feed on the bread!?
This was on "You've Been Framed" today (UK TV). It had obviously done this before & represents some extraordinary behaviour.
 
I have just seen this video clip this weekend again on YBF. It does indeed show a very interesting behaviour I have never heard of before in any bird.

For thoes who have not seen it a (I think) green heron hops on to the roof of a building and picks ups some bread. It then flies onto a small pontoon dropping the bread in the water, waits for a fish to start feeding then catches one of them. A very clever bird indeed.
 
Yes, it’s very interesting behavior. I watched a Green Heron at a small pond in Reno use a large green grasshopper for bait a few years ago, stripping its legs off first. So the tactic appears to be employed in the “wild” also, not just among semi-tame birds at marinas & the like.
 
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