[NatureNS] Green heron using bait to catch fish

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There is, according to an article I saw some years ago (National Geographic 
or perhaps Natural History), a Heron in Japan that fishes with bait 
routinely; usually a small leaf or petal flicked onto the water as I recall.
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Green heron using bait to catch fish


> Thanks for sharing this, Bernard!
>
> Isn't that something else? I saw this just the other day. I thought to 
> myself, 'Wow', a Green Heron, like the one down at Sullivan's Pond!
> Here's another video, also showing a Green Heron behaving in the same way. 
> As the commentator says, 'What a shrewdy'! Apparently, this video, when 
> shown to scientists, caused quite a stir (or so says the write-up).
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNTw7GH325U
>
> Cheers!
>
> Gayle MacLean
> Dartmouth
>
> ---- Bernard Burke <bernieb1@EastLink.ca> wrote:
>> It appears that a new video has surfaced of a Green Heron using bait to 
>> catch a fish. I don't know of where this video was recorded, but I see 
>> that there are other videos of this species doing the same thing. I 
>> cannot say that I had seen the Sullivans Pond Dartmouth bird this past 
>> spring doing this, but it would have been interesting to watch if it had:
>>
>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwfgfZwgvGM
>>
>>
>> Bernard
>
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