When we were out at the Poor Knights Islands on yesterday’s Tutukaka pelagic seabird trip out to The Petrel Station (in northern NZ), we saw a couple of not fully fledged Buller’s Shearwaters in the water by the islands. With the parents already migrated north these were probably left behind to defend for themselves but were just a bit too young to fly fully (they still had fluffy heads). As we were watching the birds suddenly a massive Scorpion Fish (aka Grand Daddy Hapuka) came up from below to try and eat it!
Has anyone seen other instances of fish / sharks trying to take out seabirds in NZ? I've seen that video of the Giant Trevally in the tropics leaping out of the water to take out noddies.
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Scott
Fish Eating Seabirds
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Re: Fish Eating Seabirds
Not a fish Scott, but another marine creature. Many years ago on Great Barrier Island, my wife and I found an octopus in a rock pool on the rock platform at the southern end of Medlands Beach eating a brown teal.