Today as I had my breakfast in the caff downstairs, I thumbed through The Sun.
In it was a hilarious story about a idiotic pigeon who had somehow stumbled into the pouch of a pelican's bill.
According to the story the pigeon struggled for 20 minutes before the pelican thought "Fuck this for a game of skittles" and swallowed the pigeon whole.
I am sure it regretted it - swallowing a live bird is surely not a nice thing (for the eater or the eatee).
Ewww. Think of it wiggling down your throat!
ReplyDeleteOK, there are feathers involved, but otherwise it cannot be too different to swallowing a fish alive?
ReplyDeletei heard on radio 2 so it must be true that the powers at st james park have imported russian white pelicans-yeah my thoughts too..to intentionally eat the pigeons in an effort to control numbers..no shite either..
ReplyDeletehow bout a piont o beer at the wheatsheaf on rathbone place w1 fr i night..boris has his cash hanging oot!
Patricia - I think it's quite different. Fish are designed to slip neatly down a birds throat.
ReplyDeleteTheir scales all poin one direction, and any sharp bits point away from the throat.
A pigeon is all flapping and has claws and a beak and feathers aren't slippery like scales are.
I've never eaten either whole, so I don't speak from experience.
Dunny - I may see you there, I've hurt my knee and have to be a little bit careful.
You need to email me your number mate.
I read that in the Independent, the bird was still alive for a while in the pelican's crop after he went down fighting. It just looked wrong, I blame 4X4's !
ReplyDeleteObviously the pelican was happy enough...he must have thought that it's better a bird in the beak...
ReplyDeleteIn Spanish the saying goes "When there is hunger no bread is stale"