A real choker: Peckish cormorant attempts to gobble down 5lb PIKE

February 4th, 2012

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David Baker

Last updated at 1:10 PM on 4th February 2012

A ravenous cormorant found its lunch a bit too hard to swallow after diving to snare a 5lb pike.

The greedy seabird had come inland for a meal at the Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve in Kent before trying desperately to gulp down the huge pike.

Having thrashed around on the surface of the water for around five minutes it appeared to have won the battle, swallowing most of the pike’s body.

Lunchtime: The greedy cormorant manages to get the 5lb pike and tries desperately to swallow it whole

But just when it seemed like it was ready to move on to dessert it suddenly regurgitated the freshwater pike having decided it was simply too big to go down.

Adamant that he could finish the fish in one it made one more token attempt, seizing the pike again, before finally giving up.

The pike floated away and photographer, 68-year-old Fred O’Hare, who took the amazing pictures was unsure whether it survived.

Fish supper: The seabird looks to have won the battle with the 5lb pike

Struggle: The cormorant's eyes are clearly to big for its belly as it gives up on the large fish

Struggle: The cormorant’s eyes are clearly to big for its belly as it gives up on the large fish

Mr O’Hare, a retired fireman from West Wickham, Kent, had turned up hoping to photograph another bird, a bittern, but his lens was attracted to the life or death battle between the cormorant and the pike.

He said: ‘I saw the cormorant surfacing with something and couldn’t make out what it was to start with. It became apparent it was a pike and it was clearly too big for the cormorant.

‘It tried really hard to swallow it but got fed up in the end and the pike drifted off. I’ve never seen anything quite like that before.’

There are thought to be around 24,000 wintering cormorants in the UK.

Some species of cormorant can dive to a depth of 45 metres in the hunt for fish.

Determined: After one final bid to eat the pike the cormorant finally admitted defeat and let the fish go

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Hang head in shame if you didnt know what a cormorant was. (Article includes pics)

– Trevor , harrow london, 04/2/2012 16:31

Cormorants are coming even further inland now because our seas are almost depleted of fish thanks to the EUSSR letting every member nation rape our coastal waters. The cormorant will have probably damaged the pike enough to kill it as although the pike is a ‘predator’ it is very easily damaged and dies after such encounters.

– DB1, Nottingham ENGLAND, 04/2/2012 16:22

great pics

– ash, lancashire, 04/2/2012 16:00

Like our politicians, they try to bite more than their mouth can accommodate.

– antonio fernandes, Newcastle, 04/2/2012 15:55

Happy for the pike though ……

– Bernie, Scotland, 04/2/2012 15:52

Cormorants that come inland should be shot dead. They are emptying inland lakes of fish. Two cormorants can eat four or five fish a day. Anglers have found that fish are rapidly disappearing from their fishing lakes. You have to pay £20.00 a day to fish in an empty lake. Over fishing in the sea has caused the cormorants to come inland and they stay. More fishing control in the seas would stop this problem.

– Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 04/2/2012 15:36

Non culling of Cormorants, the introduction of Otters by the EA and the recent influx of Easter Europeans have all contributed in decimating our once great waterways!!

– Ray, England, 04/2/2012 15:32

Paul @14.09: no need for a question mark. Borhan @ 14.01: you mean ‘size DOES matter’. Roseiln @ 13.45: a bit convoluted, don’t you think? Rollo @ 13.06: cormorants are found world-wide; they’re a well-known, common bird.

– Agate top-ring., Ponders End., 04/2/2012 15:26

Hands up if you clicked on this story because you didn’t know what a cormorant was… I have my hand up!
– Rollo Tomasi, Bangkok, Thailand, 04/2/2012 13:06—–Isn’t a Cormorant a Caldari Tech 1 Destroyer class ship in EVE Online?

– Mike, Liverpool, 04/2/2012 15:23

Can’t understand why the Pike didn’t try and attack the Cormorant, as it has a fierce reputation as a predator?

– Paul, Ashby de la Zouch, UK, 04/2/2012 14:09

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