Bibhav Behera
27-01-2013, 02:07 PM
This event unfolded when I was in Nalabana in Chilika, Odisha.
I saw a Greater Cormorant in the water feeding when it caught a fish which was bigger than it could handle. It struggled for a while trying to swallow it, occasionally dropping it and picking it again. A brahminy Kite saw this from the distance and started in the direction of the Cormorant. The cormorant seeing this dipped into the water to evade it. It did this a few times till the time it actually let go of the fish. The Kite swooped in and grabbed the fish and flew off to the distance...
The cormorant continued fishing!!!
I saw a Greater Cormorant in the water feeding when it caught a fish which was bigger than it could handle. It struggled for a while trying to swallow it, occasionally dropping it and picking it again. A brahminy Kite saw this from the distance and started in the direction of the Cormorant. The cormorant seeing this dipped into the water to evade it. It did this a few times till the time it actually let go of the fish. The Kite swooped in and grabbed the fish and flew off to the distance...
The cormorant continued fishing!!!