Cormorant overreaches and loses its life attempting to swallow a walleye.

Died doing what he loved.

As a Michigander I’d also love to die eating walleye.

Throating big schmeat

I should call her…

…being alive.

Pelican somewhere laughing at his dumb ass.

Pelican’t

One can’t, but maybe Toucan

An interesting bird, the pelican. Its beak can hold more than its belly can.

He can hold in his beak enough food for a week, and I’m damned if I know how the hell he can!

Pretty sure pelicans also regularly choke themselves to death on things. They just put literally anything in their mouths

Joe Pudney was out fishing last week when he came across the aftermath of a battle between two of Oneida Lake’s most voracious predators. Bobbing on the surface was a double-crested cormorant with the tail end of a large walleye sticking half way out its mouth. Both bird and fish were dead. We’ll never know which critter died first, but clearly the cormorant bit off more than it could chew—or in this case, gulp. And cormorants, with their long necks and hooked beaks, are great gulpers of fish, consuming up to 1.5 pounds per day, including the occasional adult walleye. “We do find legal-size or larger walleyes in their stomachs sometimes,” said Thomas Brooking, research specialist at Cornell University’s Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point. “It’s not common,” he added. “But we have found 15- or 16-inch walleye that they have swallowed successfully.” \>> [Read more](https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2025/09/photo-captures-fatal-encounter-between-two-of-oneida-lakes-top-predators.html)

My local news outlet posting on this sub is the most WTF part of this post Tf are you doing here syr.com

Everybody loves the circus.

TBF, it’s good content

Damn birds are a problem at some of my preferred fishing holes. But nature does nature. Ill just bitch and moan while appreciating they are just more apt at catching fish than me.

Millions of years of evolution vs a monkey with a fishing pole.

You should team up!

Well, get a cormorant and use it for fishing. Still practised in some communities. They put a ring around its neck to prevent it from eating your fish and then give a few as a treat.

TIL the Pokemon Cramorant is based off the real bird cormorant

My dumbass read the post title as “Cramorant”

I thought i was reading a post from a pokemon sub..

Walleyes were bigger than its stomach.

[https://imgur.com/a/NpkA2G0](https://imgur.com/a/NpkA2G0)

Birds don’t chew anyway

everything reminds me of her

You too can have a childhood-scarring memory of these birds by troll fishing in their hunting waters and watching one dive into the water, swallow your tri-hook lure, and making your father have to euthanize it with a pocket knife on a dinghy.

See you were doing it wrong. You should have caught the bird, and used it as a lure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant_fishing

My dumb, fat ass at a Brazilian steakhouse.

These birds eat all the stocked trout every spring before any fishermen can get ‘em.