- A video of a great blue heron swallowing a nasty New York City rat appeared on Twitter.
- The video shows the heron watering mice in the pond in Central Park before enjoying the food.
- The bird watcher who took this video said it was “unusual” to see a heron eating a mouse.
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A great blue heron was photographed watering a New York City mouse in a pond in Central Park, and then stuffed its rodent prey head down into its esophagus, and then covered its whole, tail, and everything. Swallow.
Investors and computer scientists posted a video clip of the incident on Twitter on Sunday David Barrett, He runs a bird watching account with 51,800 followers called “Manhattan Bird Alert.”
In the Central Park pond this morning, the great blue heron lifted a killed mouse out of the water and swallowed it in just a few seconds. pic.twitter.com/E4Vx0ya8od
-Manhattan Bird Alert (@BirdCentralPark) September 5, 2021
Barrett told Insider in an email that the heron may have stabbed a mouse with a sharp beak—this is how the bird usually kills its prey. As for why it soaks food in the pond, Barrett said that herons often do this, perhaps to make it easier for their food to slide down their throats.
The birdwatcher added that he found the heron “a bit far from the shore” but did not see where the bird caught the mouse.
“I was lucky to be there when I arrived, because a few seconds later the heron swallowed the mouse,” he said.
He also said that it was “unusual” for a heron to eat a mouse, and he had never seen a great blue heron eat one before.Great Blue Heron Usually eat fish, But sometimes also prey on other creatures, such as turtles, salamanders, snakes, and yes-rats.
Barrett said on his personal website that he has more than 10 years of bird watching experience. After he took a picture of a heron, he posted a video with a dead mouse embedded in its mouth. Began to become popular.
Some people responded to this video on Twitter, joking that they could recruit herons to help solve The rat problem in New York City. Rat complaints in the city have recently surged to pre-pandemic levels. There were 2,900 complaints in March this year. Bloomberg reports.
