BBC - The One Show - Cormorants

[gozzer]

cormorant with pike

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7235464.stm

 

 

This one looks like a decent bream, how it gets that shape down, beats me.

 

 

John.

[poledark]

I hooked a cormorant many years ago, and found I could easily get my fist down its throat.

 

Den

[Leon Roskilly]

A cormorant tackling a large flounder kept once me entertained for quite a while.

The flounder seemed to be stuck halfway down its throat and flapping desperately.

I couldn't imagine how it could get such a large flatfish down and thought that the cormorant had paid the price of being just too greedy.

But after some 10 or 15 minutes of flapping and wriggling it finally went down.

[Tigger]

The fish they're eating look much bigger than they are. Blimey, how big do people think a cormorant is ! I've had hold of a few and they arn't big creatures so even a fish of half a pound will look magnified in size when the bird has hold of it.

 

Den, I reckon another forum member (co's i'm not doin it) could get their fist down your throat pretty easy if they pressed hard enough LOL.

[Jim Roper]

No one ever mentions the shag, very similar to the cormorant, both eat fish, yet the population of the shag is 3 times as healthy as the cormorant. That's because the Southern Sea Fisheries Committee no longer issue Shag permits. There used to be a 7/6d bounty on every pair of Shag feet.

[Steve Walker]

That's because the Southern Sea Fisheries Committee no longer issue Shag permits.

[Matthew Simmons]

I didn't know you needed a shag permit back in the day. ;-)

[Phone]

Tigger,

 

Cormorants have a pouch like pelicans. Now, how they go from pouch to gut has to be done with mirrors.

 

Phone