- A Great Blue Heron caught shows what fish the heron caught in about a one-half hour of filming.
- This could be a useful video to show while discussing the behavior of a heron while fishing.
- It appears it caught Pacific herring, juvenile salmon, a small flatfish, sculpins, and a gunnel.
- Of interest is one of the sculpins was probably a staghorn sculpin which because of its "horns", which it erects when disturbed, could be very difficult and dangerous for the heron to swallow. In the video you can see that the heron eventually gave up.
- Gunnels are also difficult for them to swallow -- not sure why -- perhaps the way the fish struggle or perhaps tough skin. In another video it shows a heron not being able to swallow several gunnels. Type in gunnel in the search to find the video.
- For a fun article about these birds look at Things that go Squawk in the Night (Great Blue Herons) by Bob Armstrong and Marge Hermans
A Great Blue Heron caught
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