Anhinga and Cormorant swimming underwater.

While swimming with manatees in the Crystal River, Florida, I got to video this anhinga and a Cormorant as they swam by.
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[@JesseLockeHere2Do]

Interesting. The two birds have different ways of swimming. One alternating it's paddling motion and the other moving both of it's feet in sync.

[@LEGOpachinko]

The second one learned from The Man from Atlantis

[@CarissaConti]

Very cool to see how they look when they're swimming underwater. Especially the Anhinga, with the pointed neck/head and little fast and furious feeties. "Go feeties, go!!!" :D Not sure why anybody would give this a thumbs down.

[@careylinn6976]

The anhinga travels in 3 worlds, a messenger to Xibalba. Wonderful grace.

[@craftykit2242]

The anhinga’s neck looks so strange. Apparently they have one extra long vertebrae in their neck to help them spear food.

[@The_Practical_Daydreamer]

That is why they are called snake birds.

[@SR-ck8gu]

Very neat! I wonder if any zoos have exhibits of anhingas displayed in the way penguins are displayed, with big glass-sided pools of water.

[@turkeyman100]

When I saw the Anhinga swimming, in my head I was playing the music from Phineas and Ferb that goes "doo bee doo bee doo bah doo (repeat)"

[@whywouldiwantone]

great video, we have those Water Turkeys or Florida Turkeys, as they are called here, in water off our back yard. The blue males are pretty birds when they get out of the water and spread their wings to dry off.

[@asherzerbib3461]

Blue? I lived in Orlando for eight months and saw both males and females all the time, yet none of them had blue plumage. Are you sure?

[@The_Practical_Daydreamer]

Maybe you mean little blue herons?

[@thebabbler8867]

Anhinga is the better swimmer.

[@ArtietheArchon]

pretty fast for foot swimmers, conversely razorbills are about one step away from being penguins with their wings underwater

[@wildsuburbiauk152]

Great footage these birds look a bit like cormorants. Many thanks.

[@ulfgator1228]

This is a great video. Thanks for uploading! Btw, I'm pretty sure the second bird is a double crested cormorant.

[@itsanna123]

What a great video. I must go and do that swim someday. I agree with UlfGator1; the second bird's swimming motions are much different, aren't they.

[@twixcat7054]

I was about to ask where do you see a second bird?!?!? But then I played it back and was like never mind

[@Tarbtano]

Simply beautiful video! With your permission and proper crediting, could I use this video for the wikipedia article on these birds?

[@AdamJDuncan]

this is brilliant

[@josedelprao7014]

Impresionante... 👌👌

[@wierzchos]

Nice! The second bird is a Double-crested Cormorant though.

[@Macrock4]

True. second bird is a Double-crested Cormorant!

[@geraldomouramoura2781]

Kacper Wierzchoś 👫

[@chancegivens9390]

Great birds!

[@POKESTERXX]

stop being a fish. bird.

[@Chronos127]

more like a turtle... !

[@FishingFloridaWaters]

Anhinga Bird Eating Fish - video of an anhinga eating a fish!

[@powwowmagic6961]

NAC Water bird

[@MrRobot25921]

We have one at the lake in our apartment complex. I always watch the bird everyday when i walk my dog and sometimes he swims for 1 minute straight. Incredible specimen.

[@romalea]

wTF THAT'S THE WEIRDEST THING DUDE

[@capptain_crunch9544]

Birds are better at being fish than fish.

[@victoriawu3826]

Incredible

[@ivonnebarajas9260]

Sir you spelled underwater wrong it's u n d e r not u d e r

[@Connected78]

I once saw an anhinga at the park. It was swimming underwater. It was so fast that it wasn't easy to take a picture of it! Besides, for some reason, I thought that was an anhinga, but it wasn't after all for me. I thought it was a cormorant.

[@randomvideosyt5955]

Theses birds creep me out the they look 😂

[@Skyder12]

Is this in a spring?

[@Artemides456]

doggie style vs crawl 😁

[@AngeloIppis42]

What an Odd bird

[@robinsonray6766]

they are also surprisingly good flyers. Good enough buoyancy to dive like this yet light enough to fly, and pretty efficiently [unlike chickens].

[@Macrock4]

Actually heavy for their size. They have "heavy" bones and here in NH can weigh about 14-16 pounds.

[@thebadgerstick9492]

The anhinga looks so much more threatening

[@wahidtrynaheghugh260]

Swamp turkey