This video is about a green heron in North America; catching fish with a piece of bread.
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And us humans thing we are so smart. This is more than instinct. This is forethought and planning. Holy cow! Glad they don’t realize we are not too bright.
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Hi Waldo and Valerie, thanks for your comments!
There are several more instances of birds using tools. Eg, Egyptian vultures use rocks to break open ostrich eggs:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/romanian-birds-not-protected/
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NOT bird brained then!
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How brilliant – thanks. We watch a heron on the local canal but I don’t think it’s seen your video yet…
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Hi, thanks for the reblog!
Maybe the heron at your canal is a grey heron and thinks that it does not have to learn things from smaller green herons 🙂
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🙂 keep up the great blogging mate!
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Reblogged this on dogsharon and commented:
Most amazing film…
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They’ve also been known to use insects for bait.
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Hi, especially GREEN herons?
I just read about a grey heron doing that. It will be in a new post at my blog soon.
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That new blog post is at
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/heron-uses-ants-to-catch-fish/
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How amazing is that!
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Yes, green herons and other birds have more brains than the expression “bird brain” suggests.
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So true – my Irish born and bred African Grey companion here is more than a match for my also rather brainy Border Collie (and me come to think of it ;-)). Love your blog btw, keep it going…
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I will indeed try to keep it going … even if the Internet sometimes goes very S-L-O-W-L-Y here 🙂
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Wow. That’s amazing. I watched as the piece of bread got smaller and smaller before he caught the fish. The only thing that I have seen a green heron catch is a frog. I have some photos of that encounter at my blog http://michaelqpowell.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/not-seeing-eye-to-eye/ . It includes one particularly memorable shot in which the frog is looking at the green heron after he has been caught.
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Hi, thanks for your comment and link!
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