Saturday, November 29, 2008

Fishing

Bald eagles and osprey catch fish with their talons. Pelicans, terns, gulls and wading birds fish with their beaks. Great blue herons are waders. They fish with their beaks, but they don’t just bite them. They spear them. What a setup! They use their entire face as a spear-gun.

Then, without using their hands, they have to get the fish off their beak and into their mouth without dropping it.