{"id":17880,"date":"2013-08-27T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=17880"},"modified":"2013-08-27T06:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:57:55","slug":"pied-billed-grebe-with-eyes-bigger-than-its-than-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/pied-billed-grebe-with-eyes-bigger-than-its-than-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe With Eyes Bigger Than Its Than Stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pied-billed Grebes are both pugnacious and gluttonous and it’s not unusual for them to capture and attempt to swallow prey that is marginally too big to go down the hatch, which can lead to some interesting and amusing\u00a0behaviors at feeding time.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I was amazed that this adult\u00a0grebe even attempted to deal with a fish this size.\u00a0 Pied-billed Grebes are highly kleptoparasitic\u00a0and there were other grebes nearby so this bird knew it had a problem…<\/p>\n

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which was how to swallow the oversized fish before other birds tried to steal it.\u00a0 So\u00a0the grebe\u00a0immediately attempted to scurry away from the others and swallow the fish before the rest of them moved in.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0They chased “him” around for a while but this time there weren’t any actual fights over the fish.\u00a0 The other grebes seemed to sense that the fish was too big…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0and eventually they just sat back and watched the attempt at gluttony.\u00a0 Perhaps they were in the mood to be amused…<\/p>\n

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After a couple of minutes the bird seemed to accept defeat and just swam around with the fish sticking out of its craw without making any more serious\u00a0swallowing attempts but it simply could not bring itself to\u00a0give up\u00a0on the\u00a0prize completely, at least for a while.<\/p>\n

As far as I know the grebe never enjoyed this particular meal.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Pied-billed Grebes are both pugnacious and gluttonous and it’s not unusual for them to capture and attempt to swallow prey that is marginally too big to go down the hatch, which can lead to some interesting and amusing behaviors at feeding time..<\/p>\n

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