Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
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Re: Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
Some extremely high quality video captures lately; here's a heron vs gopher feeding from a youtube wildlife photographer with several more of similar quality in his other videos:
And here's some more footage from veteran youtuber redjered, a heron working on swallowing a large pike.
And here's some more footage from veteran youtuber redjered, a heron working on swallowing a large pike.
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Fallenfox - Intermediate Vorarephile
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Re: Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
A smaller heron swallows a live duckling, which fills up his throat completely!
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Re: Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
It's been a while, so time for another video. A GBH catches and swallows a gopher. This avid photographer has lots of other heron feeding videos on his channel, too.
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GBH gulps down three live birds seemingly one after another. I wonder if there's a full version of this somewhere out and about where you can see them all going down. That would be pretty neat. I meant to post it when I found it literally three hours after it was uploaded, somehow, but forgot to until just now when I got a new post notification.
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Re: Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
Another great capture.
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Some Fish
Second video skip to 4:00
Second video skip to 4:00
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Re: Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
Happy new year! Let's keep this thread alive with more high quality heron feeding footage.
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I like this channel's GBH videos, he focuses on the prey in the bird's mouth and lingers on the throat bulge during swallowing.
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Re: Herons/pelicans swallowing live prey
A heron feeding on a live fish, set to music with some cute sound effects added.
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Some raw and uncut nature footage, heron swallows a rodent alive on a windy day. I like how after the swallow, the heron just tilts his head back and relaxes for over a minute allowing the prey to slide slowly down.
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New video of some heron-vs-gopher action. The second feeding is really impressive; that was a big fat gopher swallowed dry. This is one of the only channels on youtube consistently uploading heron feeding vids.
ETA: another great vid recently uploaded!
ETA: another great vid recently uploaded!
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The best new video yet; stabilized high-def footage of a gopher getting plucked from the ground and quickly swallowed. This one definitely went down alive.
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The high quality videos just keep coming from this uploader. A female heron swallows a big gopher, featuring closeups of her bulging throat in 4k resolution!
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Yet another 4k resolution video of some amazing heron predation. The first one gets savagely impaled so viewer discretion is advised.
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Time for some Egret action!
This guy is really putting in the time to capture great footage of these birds feeding.
This guy is really putting in the time to capture great footage of these birds feeding.
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Two more successful feedings captured by our new favorite heron channel, and finally he is using real audio rather than that canned repeating birdsong track.
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Putting in work, getting that 6am feeding on film, and even running after the heron to capture the live swallowing, what a guy!
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why is this on page 2?
this thread is awesome.
this thread is awesome.
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