Photo-a-day retirement

By mpp26

Afternoon tea anyone?

A little pied shag (cormorant) with a delicious little eel (elver). It caught the eel and jumped out of the river to work on getting it from round its beak to longways so it would slide down. I've never seen one jump out of the water like that before, but it worked, as when the eel got dropped it was easy for the bird to grab it again, which is wouldn't have been in the water.

Maori Name: Kawaupaka
Scientific name: Phalacrocorax P. malanoleucos

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