Great Blue Heron Eats Snapping Turtle HQ HD

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A Great Blue Heron has a difficult time attempting to swallow this baby Snapping Turtle.
Filmed at St. Johns Conservation Area, Niagara, Ontario.

[@justmike415]

Great birds, I love watching them. Glad they're not 30 ft tall!

[@torontorox]

that's gonna hurt in the morning

[@myyoutube5096]

🤣

[@bbb7467]

Lol

[@e.m.5499]

What I was thinking... 😆 😆🤣

[@lumox7]

Waitress, I'll have a bowl of turtle soup and make it snappy.

[@toonamife]

And a side of melted butter cause that thing ain't going down 😨

[@DGA2000]

🤣🤣🤣

[@gregorymoore2877]

Can you repeat that? I'm not sure I was heron you correctly.

[@sylviacouvertier2619]

⁠

[@sylviacouvertier2619]

@@toonamife, Better bring me a big bottle of meat tenderizer! 😅

[@hectormald.6314]

Heron: this is hard, maybe the water... Water: no

[@1CHOZN7]

He looked at the camera man like.. you next😂

[@TieLanded]

1:24

[@JuanGarcia-ni4ee]

I am a pharmacist and some people tell me “can I have the medicine in liquid form because I can’t swallow the pill” They need to watch this video.

[@adrianwright8685]

What and learn how to take 12 minutes to swallow something! Nah - lets have the liquid form!

[@kelvikelv5322]

😅😂🤣

[@kathyl9222]

It takes some time for people who aren’t used to swallowing pills.

[@lawrence18uk]

I'm sure someone has done a PhD on Heron-poop

[@xyz2121]

They must have some strong stomach juices to dissolve that shell.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Was thinking the same .....How a meal like this even travels through the oesophagus ; the stomach acids of some of these birds are unbelievable , even able to disolve bone . While some other birds like owls cough up boney and fur remains .

[@MacroX1231]

With shorebirds (grebes, herons, cormorants, gulls, terns, kingfishers, crows, jays, swallows, pelicans) an most birds of prey, indigestible solid remains of their prey, such as hair, feathers and bones, are formed into a ball called a pellet in the gizzard. This pellet is then ejected. This process is called 'casting a pellet'. Such pellets are common to all birds of prey that swallow their food whole, including owls, hawks and eagles.

[@PAULLONDEN]

@@MacroX1231 Thanks . One exception being the "bearded vulture" able to disolve solid bone .

[@ColbyMoonwalker]

MacroX1231 Thanks for sharing.

[@lil1ice186]

EVERYBODY look out there's a hard turtle shell falling from some birds ass.

[@helenatube]

I'm amazed that this heron could digest a whole turtle shell? fascinating..

[@steveflor9942]

Blue Heron blues: I love snapping turtles... Snapping turtle's what I eat... I nibble on they heads.. And, they tiny feet.

[@skyak4493]

Here in the midwest, herons and snapping turtles eat the same creatures with the same ambush tactic, from different sides -above and below.

[@gunlokman]

It's the human equivalent of eating a whole tin of beans - without opening the tin first! (I just hope this bird isn't flying over me when the shell comes out again!)

[@suearmstrong9597]

Funny!!!!

[@alejandroperez5368]

Can they even fly?

[@PETEDOVEPIX]

@@alejandroperez5368 Yes

[@W81Researcher]

Turtle: you will never eat me give it up. Heron: I always get what I want for dinner. And you will be my dinner!!

[@justintheway2385]

Gulps a whole turtle, sips a bit of water...lol

[@bloodfox567]

"Why won't this soften up!" *dip*

[@normanbrown9225]

Hey blue heron dunking ain't gonna make the turtle soft like a donut

[@vipahman]

That shell is going to crash through a windshield.

[@kristoffetan7021]

Catching the prey - 3 secs Planning how to swallow it - 13 mins

[@ZekeTheBeag]

That's gotta hurt coming back out.

[@ruudtintin6010]

I hope so

[@tedunguent156]

If it came back out at all. I wonder if any dead herons were found shortly afterward.

[@MrRubenstein123]

Gross

[@anastasiostsapanidis7133]

Lol

[@xenophon5159]

It’ll come out like white paint

[@erikasauder3757]

Incredible photography - thanks for your patience - so very interesting!

[@andrewmcdonald6513]

Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside

[@jeffgessner9764]

This would be a great commercial for stool softener.

[@JuanPerez-tg6lq]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@skynetfall4660]

😀😀

[@Bishnu_Deb]

The water in the lake serves as dipping sauce.

[@amfohr]

More as a lubricant

[@lumox7]

GET IN MA BELLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[@manbo14]

-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@Eman-ud6tg]

@@manbo14 -YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@josexoxd4378]

Y

[@JR-ij9sx]

Now i will search "heron eats a rock"

[@vita8208]

More like heron pooping out turtle.

[@ArchTeryx00]

The heron won't actually digest the shell nor will he pass it. He'll just hork it up later - like hawks, herons can cast pellets.

[@ArchTeryx00]

@Beverly Rhame Heh. Herons are well known for eating odd things. Occasionally, it's even fatal - herons have been found choked to death on stickleback fish.

[@rhuttrho88]

@Beverly Rhame they aren't greedy they are wild animals! They don't know any better!

[@caib714]

This heron will be constipated for weeks.

[@TheRonjhet]

ahaha best comment so far regarding these birds LOL.....

[@Mistak23]

If herons are like owls, they'll just puke out the bones and shells.

[@lil1ice186]

I guess the heron will be having the hardest poop of all time. It would be funny if the heron flies over the bald head of an idiot bully and poops a hard turtle shell from its anus knocking out the bully.

[@kathleennorton6108]

@@lil1ice186 You have quite an imagination!

[@JuanPerez-tg6lq]

@@lil1ice186 🤣

[@Gigiroo]

If it took me 15 minutes to eat my prey I’d move on to smaller and softer food lol

[@channelofszabolcssebvarga2168]

maybe she was not so hungry they catch a fish in every 5 minutes

[@smithkelsey9293]

"Heron just had a taste for Turtle that evening", they consume SO many different prey species.

[@Supersonicff-dw6bs]

Ever seen the claws on a snapping turtle's feet? You'd want to make damn sure it was dead before swallowing it!

[@Gigiroo]

Supersonicf111f 19740186 Yeah like I said I’d move on lol

[@greensun1334]

Ouch... This is for sure very painful for both animals...

[@ambriadanielsband4132]

These birds are amazing! I saw one in our backyard that had a cotton mouth snake in its beak about 3 foot long. He tossed it in the air opened his mouth and it slid right down the herons throat, then slithered back out! Ewww

[@charliedallachie3539]

Herons will eat anything they can swallow, small pets included so don’t let them out in the yard.

[@venusianlilac]

WTFFF

[@phira360]

It was still alive or it just slid out?

[@Ferdinand_FE]

This is the bird equivalent of "playing with your food".

[@Arthur-jy2so]

I feel like when the heron was taking a shit it was like, " OH ITS A BIG ONE"

[@ToToWildlife]

Wow! Herons really eats everything! Great video!

[@michaelcrockis7679]

What a pinnacle of intelligence this heron!

[@apophisxo4480]

Turtle: Can we get the $#^% over with already????

[@stackbundles2663]

An extended GIF.

[@Ceilvia]

Heron: Let me just wash that down with a lil sip of water...

[@StJYG76]

Yum yum, Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside

[@mohammadzulkifliismail2236]

That's a full 13 mins ordeal for both of them. Digesting the shell will be another story. Superb dude. 😆

[@AcyGonz20711]

ow... Great Heron also eats turtle, I haven't seen in person yet, thanks for sharing. 👍

[@WanderingSoleTV]

Amazing footage!

[@wleon4068]

They really are magnificent birds.

[@GlowSticksThatGlow]

RIP when that bird takes a dump.

[@tobisherwood7853]

The Great Blue Heron's mother would be saying... "Stop playing with your food, junior!"

[@YesItsReallyKeith]

well his mother never told him to stop playing with his food !! :)- elegantly filmed !!

[@stephenjones6030]

Great video. I think the heron was thinking that the shell was going to get softer and softer the more it dunked it in the water. I wonder if it "kept it down"? I mean, that's got to take a few days to digest!

[@irgendeinname9256]

Nah they always dip their prey in water. I guess it makes it easier to swallow

[@divinerowecom]

That is certainly not fast food.

[@JT_70]

Incredible video quality!

[@tomhall3940]

That gives playing with your food new meaning. 😝

[@naturalreach4316]

What a wonderful video

[@idabagusdarmaputra125]

Amazing video...thanks

[@ismayilarifoglu6226]

The turtle’s wtf moment.

[@nicholash8021]

I once caught some sort of freaky boney/spiny catfish in the Gulf with what appeared to be an exoskeleton full of spikes. Ugliest thing I ever saw aside from my ex. Tossed it on the pier, then a gray heron who I had already fed like 15 perch was somehow still intrigued. He walked around it, took a few looks at it, then stabbed it to death about 10 times, occasionally having to pry his beak out of the wood of the pier. Once it stopped moving, he took it right down, spines and all. Gulp.

[@petedove]

After doing a little research and watching some other videos here on KZbin, I've learned that they'll eat just about anything. Their strong stomach acid allows them to digest just about anything.

[@SebastianLong]

Sounds like you caught a sturgeon. Pretty rare fish and a protected fish on the Hudson River in NY

[@johnhall3570]

@@SebastianLongMaybe it was an armored catfish?

[@SebastianLong]

@@johnhall3570 In the Gulf though? Doesnt sound like a catfish.

[@belle9184]

I get the strong feeling this is not a normal food for herons.

[@dawood121derful]

From what I’ve seen so far with Herons is that one’s chances of escaping their clutches is pretty low.

[@stephentyler4352]

“Totally Radicle, Dude! Let’s order some pizza.” - Leonardo

[@benjaminmathias5004]

Man this will bring consequences in the morning

[@juancarlosvaldes4538]

Heron: I remember mom told me to wash your food at least 100 times before you eat it. Turtle: Yeah you idiotic bird, keep throwing me in the water cause that's my habitat! Turtle: Oh crap! There goes my life!

[@Jim-be8sj]

If those birds were twice their size I'd be afraid to leave my house for fear one could be planing to make a snack out of me.

[@JGTHC-mh7xj]

"is he really gonna eat it?" Skip to the end "holy crap he did it" now I wonder, did he survive the S**t after?

[@Stringman1950]

Snapping turtle is either dead or so dizzy it can’t move.

[@unknownuser2737]

I believe it's dead it looks bloated. Its legs are straight and its tail is straight. I'm not a know-it-all but I believe that heron would have had a hard time if that turtle was alive it's got some serious Claws and they can bite like hell just saying. But on the other hand I seen one along the river with a groundhog in his beak I don't know if it killed it or found it but it sure had it

[@gnutzguy]

and I thought my GF was slow eating her dinner.

[@coronalover4572]

This guy washed that turtle more than me washing veggies before eating 😂

[@keepthefunk]

that hurts twice I guess

[@Mac14329]

"There's always a bigger fish."

[@onetrickpony8618]

No shortage of dipping sauce here.....

[@SKKEarth]

nice video friend.great footage.thanks for sharing this

[@WTFPet]

Is It stomach can digest turtle shell?

[@MrGtsouth]

The beak is made for stabbing, not crushing. The endless mouthing must be to gauge the width of an object that won’t compress. The bird has probably had choking experiences in the past. It drinks water before and after the swallow, perhaps for lubrication.

[@Kwelinzito]

If you can't break it, don't eat it.

[@muhammadazeezalilecturer698]

Lovely Heron 🥰🥰🥰❤️🙂

[@anonamous365]

please tell me there is a part duce

[@sunilsaranjame1523]

Before being swallowed the turtle lived and died several times.

[@Johnny.1965]

He may suffer a few "exit wounds" in a day or two...

[@jonnyscds]

How can a turtle shell digest in a bird's stomach? amazing

[@johnhall3570]

REALLY strong stomach acids!

[@sivyisvaj8054]

How is that bird gonna poo that shell out? 🤣

[@robertosrooftopbirdwatchin2239]

Awesome Footage 👍greeting from NYC

[@PETEDOVEPIX]

Thanks Roberto. Please visit my bird & wildlife KZbin channel @ 'Pete Dove Niagara Wildlife' to see more.

[@sokatdonde4604]

Tortoise must have prayed for his life. Now the heron for the same. Ha! Haa! Heron stomach.

[@ps_omni]

How did he get the turtles neck

[@palashsdeliciousfood]

👍🏻💖🙋🏻‍♀️Big like from my side friend wowww amazing video🌻👌🏻.Thanks for awesome sharing wishing you all the best hope you have a lovely day my 🤝🏻friend 💓💕

[@conceptualclarity]

Only needs a little bit of water to wash down that turtle in its intact shell? Amazing!

[@jaredolson7543]

Great camera quality.

[@PETEDOVEPIX]

Thank You.

[@realsteel2572]

How long to digest?

[@penboyasgod6103]

If you don't mind, what camera and lens/zoom setting were you using to take this? It's very good and excellent depth of field [focus] in this video. Or was it just 'cropped' from a wider image? Beautiful, either way. Thank you for this --- quite a learning experience.

[@PETEDOVEPIX]

Thank You Penboy. I am using a Sony CX190 Handycam. Auto aperture & focus. Tripod. 30x zoom...not sure what that translates to in mm focal length?

[@elmalloc]

@@PETEDOVEPIX Price?

[@ermac6466]

That's gonna be a problem to shit out later.

[@kenmolinaro]

Oh this brings back memories of that one time that I pooped out a turtle shell. Never again!

[@kymbo72]

surely the heron cant digest that shell? which is going to cause it some big problems when it goes to take a dump the next morning

[@torbenrolfsen604]

Slowest eating vid since My Dinner With Andre.

[@cookiebozo]

what you do not see are his Heron friends egging him on, cheering him to swallow the turtle whole, shell and all

[@hermdogg1846]

Awesome video and great camara work...👍👍

[@PETEDOVEPIX]

Thank You Hermes.

[@greensun1334]

Herons often try to eat prey what is to big to swallow it... But this time it has worked!

[@2011ninjasivtec]

What's stoping the turtle from taring apart the bird from the inside before he suffocate. Snapping turtles have sharp claws

[@elyserva7903]

I think the Great Blue Heron must have one of the highest kill ratio of any predator!

[@gravypatron]

This is how I imagine myself being eaten by a T-rex.

[@The_ZeroLine]

Chinese viewers (and pharmacists) are drooling over this video.

[@nithinraj6239]

Omg shitting that shell out would be so difficult 😂.

[@tomrecane6366]

Somebody’s gonna need a stool softener.

[@adhocprog]

Is heron still alive?

[@ghoulz8405]

That snapping turtle got its neck snaped

[@kevinjamesmartin7127]

Timestamp?

[@Kevinschart]

"If it fits I shits"