Pelicon Swallows Pigeon in a Park

Found this on OurOddWorld.com

Families and tourists in a London park were left shocked when a pelican picked up and swallowed a pigeon.

The unusual wildlife spectacle in St James's Park was caught on camera by photographer Cathal McNaughton.



He said the Eastern White pelican had the unfortunate pigeon in its beak for more than 20 minutes before swallowing it whole.



An RSPB spokesman said: "It is almost unheard of for a pelican to eat a bird. Their diet should be strictly fish."







Mr McNaughton said: "The pelican was on the towpath preening itself, and there were a lot of tourists watching it. "Then the bird got up and strolled along until it reached one of the pigeons, which it just grabbed in its beak.



"There was a bit of a struggle for about 20 minutes, with all these people watching. The pelican only opened its mouth a couple of times.



"Then it managed to get the pigeon to go head first down its throat. It was kicking and flapping the whole way down."


Oi, jeez! >.<

Categories: birds [t]

Eh...
Now that's just weird... but strangely appealing at the same time.
» Panda-Lord on 2006-10-31 07:02:50

lol, nice find. Doesn't it seem that the upper beak can't really close over the bottom half of the beak? I find that odd.
» dave on 2006-10-31 08:18:14

scary stuff!
I wonder why the pingeon didnt fly out before it could be swallowed, looks like there is a lot of space to escape! What is the world coming too!
» von-nation on 2006-10-31 10:46:31

Haha
That's funny! How did that happen? O.o
» Sylphie on 2006-10-31 11:53:25

Yay! Thankies, I'll have to make a video of myself playing and post it if/when I get said violin. Oh, I deleted the duplacomment.
» ikimashokie on 2006-10-31 11:54:59

that's odd...
and scary. O_O bird eats bird.
» razzly on 2006-11-01 12:36:33

that poor pigeon!! What a horrible way to die
» lazypuppy on 2006-11-01 12:38:35

ewww
that's kind like the fish that eat other fish, weird...
» LostSoul13 on 2006-11-01 01:27:48

o_o;;;; i must say i'm disturbed >_>;;; hahaha XD

L8r,

—×Kuri×—
» Kuri on 2006-11-01 08:04:40

to be honest, I wouldn't want anyone cleaning up all of my stuff because it looks like a horrible disaster! I'm probably one of the messiest people you'll ever see...it's that bad :( I need improvement...lol
» lazypuppy on 2006-11-01 12:18:30

eww..
omg. that's totally bizarre. have never heard of anything like that before.

thank you for the anniversary well wishes. =)

really like your layout.

and the bird thing: i didn't know that pelicans actually ate other birds.
» jen on 2006-11-01 03:17:27

seems the pelican needs to have a psychological exam. ~shakes head~
» jen on 2006-11-01 03:33:48

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