Catch!
A cormorant getting an eel the right way around for swallowing head first. Unlike cormorants I've watched taking eels on the Dee at Chester the bird made no attempt to kill the eel. The cormorant simply tossed the eel into the air, dropped it and recaptured it until it had hold of the right end. Then the eel was swallowed whole, wriggling furiously in the bird's throat.
Photographed on the Ria Formosa at Olhão.
Catch!
A cormorant getting an eel the right way around for swallowing head first. Unlike cormorants I've watched taking eels on the Dee at Chester the bird made no attempt to kill the eel. The cormorant simply tossed the eel into the air, dropped it and recaptured it until it had hold of the right end. Then the eel was swallowed whole, wriggling furiously in the bird's throat.
Photographed on the Ria Formosa at Olhão.