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Originally Posted by blueboy56
Yeh, just you wait until they start eating pigeons like they do in the parks in California (Which You Tube videos you can look at)  |
It seems that it's not uncommon for it to happen in the St James' Park colony.
A couple of paragraphs dating back to 2006...
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A pelican who found himself in the news after scooping up and eating a pigeon in a London park may not have been behaving as unusually as it first seemed.
The pelican's snacking antics made headlines when he was caught on camera by a professional photographer snapping wildlife pictures in St James's Park.
The RSPB said it was "almost unheard of" for a pelican to eat a bird, with their diet usually being strictly fish.
But it has emerged that pelicans scoffing birds may not be as rare an occurrence as first believed.
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The coverage on the BBC News website - which was among last week's most-read stories on the site - prompted a number of emails from readers saying they had seen pelicans eat birds in the park before.
Alex Worrall said he saw a pelican in the park eat a duck about 20 years ago, while John Stather said he saw two of the birds eat pigeons at the same time six years ago.
Mr Stather said: "First of all one pelican grabbed a pigeon, and then one of the others did exactly the same.
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Nature is red in tooth and claw.
BBC article