Amazing Fishing Bird!

As much as I dislike birds, I gotta say, this one is brilliant! This sort of behavior isn’t that uncommon in the bird world either – crows are known for using tools to get to their food.

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The Whale Slap

This looks like a high five gone terribly wrong!

Take that birds!

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Goose Vs Fisherman: Goose Wins

Well, it looks like those pesky birds are at it again. Now they’re not only attacking fish, but attacking fishermen too! If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my short life, its that you simply can’t trust birds.

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Plastic In Our Oceans

It’s hard to imagine the environmental impact created by items we use everyday. Lighters, bottles and other things we use often find their way into our waterways. There are islands of plastic that can be deadly to bird and fish populations. Even in remote areas of the earth, the effects of floating plastic can be seen.

These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September 2009 on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

~Chris Jordan
October 2009

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Brid Versus Fisherman

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, you can’t trust birds!

Birds 5, Fish 2

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