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Schooling in a very unusual way, tightly together and the front line of these fishes digging through the sand for edibles. A rare species of marine catfish, these fishes are way more common in freshwater habitats.
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a Black-crowned Night Heron with a large catfish in its beak. It spent a while working with the fish before it finally swallowed it.
The Striped Catfish can be recognised by its striped colouration, barbels around the mouth, and its body shape which tapers to a point posteriorly. Small juveniles are black and large adults may be less distinctly striped. The dorsal and pectoral fins have hidden venomous spines that can cause hours of intense pain and the risk of collapse from shock. (Australian Museum) Found in Beirut, Lebanon
Hundreds of Bullhead Catfish are grasping for oxygen as it is slowly depleted on this iced-up local man-made lake. This is but a small section of what was happening.
The giant otter is a South American carnivorous mammal. It feeds mainly on fish, including cichlids, characins (such as piranha), and catfish. It is the noisiest otter species.
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Chattanooga catfisher,
Sunday morning on the Tennessee,
Standing on the riprap.
Chattanooga (Ross's Landing), Tennessee, USA.
20 March 2022.
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▶ A nearby sign warns:
"Catfish from this body of water [Tennessee River] contain contaminants at levels thought to increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness in humans. These fish should not be eaten by children, pregnant or nursing women. All others should limit consumption to one meal per month."
— Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
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I saw this school of baby bullhead catfish from a foot bridge over the pond, something I hadn't seen before. Unfortunately I don't know how to make them look any better with our turbid water here. In any case, a new one for my prairie wildlife species collection. Thanks to Jessica for ID help.
No matter the season, it's always a thrill to find an otter; saw this one enjoying a hearty catfish meal the morning of Friday, June 10th.
Catfish Lunch - I am always amazed how cormorants are able to swallow the large fish that they catch. The cormorants, gulls and herons were all making the most of the obvious fish concentration below the Conowingo Dam
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The heron could not get this fish fully out of the water - likely a combination of fish size and lake grass holding it down.
This is the infamous N757A “Catfish”, the first Boeing 757 ever built, later extensively modified for use by Lockheed Martin as an F-22 sensor and avionics testbed.
This is an adult Caspian Tern, the largest Tern in the world. They have a wingspan of 127-145cm and weigh 540-780g. Compare that with say Common Tern with a wingspan of 88cm and a weight of 130g, which means you would need about 6 Common Terns to tip the scales against a single Caspian Tern. The first one I saw was in the 1980s at Minsmere (Suffolk) and I scanned across the pool through the roosting terns and was surprised I didn't see it immediately. That's because my search image was of a smaller bird, whereas this was larger than the large gulls that were also roosting there, so I initially passed it over as a gull. They are widely distributed around the globe, across North America, Eurasia, Africa down to Australia and New Zealand. But they are patchily distributed and not very common. The entire global population is 50,000 pairs, whereas there are more pairs of Arctic Terns nesting in Britain alone than that (53,000).
I photographed this adult at Iona Beach near Vancouver Airport where there were six individual Caspian Terns. They were making regular fishing forays into a freshwater pool but this was the only photo I managed that showed they were definitely feeding on Catfish (see the flat face and the barbels). I posted a young bird with a dark tail band and an orangey bill but this is a full red-billed adult with a clean white tail. The dappled white forehead shows it is moulting into non-breeding plumage,
I had stopped at a park to take a break for only a few minutes. During that short time, I was lucky enough to witness this snake, swimming in the creek, carrying a catfish it had caught.