Battle with a Crawfish - Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Jul 03, 2022

I was able to capture a battle between crawfish and a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron that went on for about 10 minutes. I have often seen herons eating a fish or a crawfish and upon occasion they will play with it first, but this Yellow-Crowned Night Heron was having quite the time with this crawfish (or crayfish - same thing). It took him close to 10 minutes to get it eaten. He caught him along the bank of the river and then flew over to the dam. He would work on him for a few and then put him down and start all over again. I assume this crawfish didn't want to go down easily - it did appear that maybe it was trying to hold on to the heron's beak but was hard to tell. So Amazing to see!!

So one picture doesn't tell the story so I have included several photos below but the video will tell the story better and this is just a sampling of the images I captured - so fuN!!

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