GREAT BLUE HERON SWALLOWS LARGE SQUIRMING SUNFISH 5 10 2021

FINAL OF A SERIES OF FISH THIS BEAUTIFUL HERON DOWNED ONE AFTER ANOTHER!

[@jtrobins1]

I love this video. It's cool seeing the fish wiggle as it's about to reach the stomach.

[@feliperocha1987]

Oh! I realised the fish swinging in the heron’s throat.

[@cju4300]

Yummy... and a little water to go with the fish.

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

Yep helps it go down smooth

[@danielerickson3391]

Imagine a Dinosaur

[@luckywijaya5119]

Imagine if you were the fish. Going down in the throat to stomach and....

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

It would be a once in a lifetime experience for sure, and most certainly a one and done experience, but that’s how nature works some survive others take the slide

[@ultimatemexicano3535]

Amazing footage! Wow that looks like a huge (do you know what type?) fish she caught! Still, the heron looked to have swallowed that thing whole okay? It looked around 0:10 that the unlucky prey was still live when swallowed!? I wonder, does the large fish stand any slim chance of escaping or even damaging (hopefully no harming the bird) the heron’s skinny neck/stomach if eaten in that condition??

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

It was a Medium sized sunfish, most times when they catch fish they swallow them alive,eventually the stomach acids kill off the fish when it's digested alive till it dies, I suppose if it angled itself right it could harm the bird, that's why they swallow fish face first so the spines on their backs won't puncture the the throat or any other organ on the way down,pelicans tend to swallow prey the same way, sometimes herons will kill an animal first if it thinks it could hurt it if eaten,but most times the animal is digested alive till it dies inside the Herons or Pelicans stomach

[@shammy3133]

Hey there! I really like the how you comment on these kinds of videos! let me know if you'd like to chat sometime :)

[@gtsteele6219]

a nice sauvignon blanc would be good with that fish.

[@naturalreach4316]

Amazing

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

Thanks it’s fun videoing them

[@michaeledwards1172]

At 13", is that movement of the bird's feathers due to the fish squirming inside the neck, or just the bird itself twitching its feathers? (It's horrific to think of anything still being alive and conscious while sliding down the throat and into the stomach.)

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

Yep that’s the fish squirming going down, 9 times out of 10 Herons and Egrets and Pelicans swallow their prey alive, the rarely kill it then eat it

[@tyttuut]

@@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX You said it had just swallowed another fish. Maybe that one hadn't gone all the way down and it wiggled a bit when the heron took a drink.

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

@@tyttuut it’s possible

[@dlighted8861]

How the heck does it breathe with that huge fish in its throat?

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

Good question XD

[@hichamyoussef2365]

Good boyeeeee

[@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX]

Very good boy

[@draggy6544]

They are reptiles so its not that surprising they eat just like snakes