Pelican eats pigeon in front of school kids

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2419847,00.html

In line with the outlandish stuff in the General Forum, I couldn't resist adding my 2 pennies worth.

Originally posted by z00t
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2419847,00.html

In line with the outlandish stuff in the General Forum, I couldn't resist adding my 2 pennies worth.

This is a true story
I was on a wharf one day and there was a lady walking a chihuaha dog and this pelican came down and grabbed it in its mouth and flew out to sea ,it was pretty funny at the time but now that i look back on it that poor lady was really upset and probably got pretty traumatised .It was just an amazing thing to witness.

I had a similar experience while walking along a canal. This sea gull swooped down and plucked a Moorhen chick out of the water. It's parents went nuts and chased it as far as they could but the gull just took off and the hens were left grounded. The weird thing was that, once they realised they couldn't catch the gull, the hens just went back to what they were doing before as if nothing had happened! Nature is cruel, but animals deal with it so much better than we do.

Originally posted by Marinkatomb
I had a similar experience while walking along a canal. This sea gull swooped down and plucked a Moorhen chick out of the water. It's parents went nuts and chased it as far as they could but the gull just took off and the hens were left grounded. The weird thing was that, once they realised they couldn't catch the gull, the hens just went back to what th ...[text shortened]... if nothing had happened! Nature is cruel, but animals deal with it so much better than we do.

Originally posted by Marinkatomb
I had a similar experience while walking along a canal. This sea gull swooped down and plucked a Moorhen chick out of the water. It's parents went nuts and chased it as far as they could but the gull just took off and the hens were left grounded. The weird thing was that, once they realised they couldn't catch the gull, the hens just went back to what th ...[text shortened]... if nothing had happened! Nature is cruel, but animals deal with it so much better than we do.

Originally posted by z00t
Speaking of a seagull, those things scare the living daylights out of me. I used to wander down to feed the ducks/geese/swans & the seagulls despite being the smallest would eat about 90% of the loaf.

Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
The worst are those sick ####ers who feed left over chicken to ducks. Encouraging cannabilism.

Originally posted by FrenchQueen
That's gross.
What I can't understand is why people feed pigeons (I'm referring to urban pigeons, not wood pigeons). "Urban" pigeons as I call them are filthy, they fly low and scare the hell out of me, they ruin statues and sh.t on people in train stations (speaking from experience here).
There are too many of them. Same with seagulls in this country ...[text shortened]... hey've been known to divebomb people as they've learnt to associate people with food. 😞

Originally posted by FrenchQueen
I hope you don't feed bread to ducklings! 🙄 Bread may swell up inside the duckling's stomach and kill it. At least it should be soaked in water, but it's best to avoid it altogether because the bread is too rich for their digestive system to handle.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpingbirds/feeding/what/scraps.asp

Originally posted by z00t
Speaking of a seagull, those things scare the living daylights out of me. I used to wander down to feed the ducks/geese/swans & the seagulls despite being the smallest would eat about 90% of the loaf.

[b]EDITI've seen the video of the pelican/pigeon and its a gruesome sight... even for one not easily scared like myself. Those kids must have been frightened stiff. Is the solution to the trafalgar square pigeon problem a few pelicans?[/b]

Geez and the struggle lasted 20 minutes. It is not worth the pelican's time to fight for 20 minutes just to swallow a troublesome pigeon. In that time it could have swallowed 20 fish or have been posing for photographs and let the school kids/tourists feed it.

Originally posted by z00t
Don't worry the seagulls ensure that even a full grown swan cannot get the bread let alone a full grown duck so a duckling getting bread is very rare.