Slim Pickings

Australian Pelicans, Pelecanus conspicillatus, are ravenous eaters by all accounts consuming up to 9kg of food per day. They are not fussy eaters with a diet including small fish, crustaceans, insects, turtles, and even seagulls and ducklings. The latter being caught and drowned underwater before being swallowed. This fellow, pictured gulping down a small freshwater shrimp, looked to be in for a long day's work searching for food if his results whilst I was there was anything to go by.

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