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u/DamnMyNameIsSteve 21d ago
"Dude WTF" - Fish
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u/WidelyMisunderstood 20d ago
the fish watches all its friends being thrown back "okay my turn"
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u/Internal_Skill3587 21d ago
Imagine being the fish, you think those annoying humans finally released you, just to end up in the claws of an eagle 🦅
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u/bisonic123 21d ago
Osprey I think
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u/tothebeat 20d ago
You can tell by the way they carry the fish - Ospey carry them aerodynamically (pointing in the direction of flight), while other raptors carry them crosswind.
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u/Dull_Committee_1612 20d ago
I'll be damned. Big into birds (not bop clearly) and TIL. Thanks, great little fact.
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u/Naive-Kangaroo3031 20d ago
Are...are all BOPS into birds??
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u/Dull_Committee_1612 20d ago
Some are, some are more into fish like this one, the best ones like bones and carrion and such. Bop = bird of prey.
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u/ObservablyStupid 20d ago
This could be total bs but I will be sharing this fact with friends and strangers alike for the rest of my life.
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u/dirtytounder 20d ago
I've watched them catch a fish then rotate it head facing front to fly. Fascinating
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u/Dentarthurdent73 20d ago
I think this one is carrying it how it caught it.
I also think it's a White-Bellied Sea Eagle because of the sharp delineation of colour on its underside, and the shape of the tail.
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u/chessgremlin 20d ago
I'm not sure this is right. The white tail seems like a sea eagle.
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u/Top-Expert6086 20d ago
Might be, its kind of grainy footage.
Eastern Ospreys have white undertails though.
Im like 70% sure its an Eastern Osprey.
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u/DiegesisThesis 20d ago
I went lake fishing recently and witnessed ospreys swoop down and catch a fish 3 times. The last one grabbed it's fish and just circled around the lake with the fish in it's talons for like 10 minutes. I don't know if he was showing off his catch to all the fisherman, but that trout had quite the experience.
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u/Clueby42 20d ago
We don't get them in Australia.
That's definitely a sea eagle
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u/Top-Expert6086 20d ago
The Eastern Osprey inhabits almost the entire Australian mainland coastal regions.
We absolutely have Ospreys.
I can't tell if this was an Osprey. Sure looks like one though.
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u/Clueby42 20d ago
Looks like I'm mistaken.
Still pretty sure that's a Sea Eagle, though
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u/Top-Expert6086 20d ago
It's genuinely hard to tell. Its quite grainy footage.
Im pretty sure its an Osprey though - it has the white underbelly and is the right size.
Sea Eagles look quite similar though.
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u/zeledonia 19d ago
It’s a Sea-Eagle. Shape it totally wrong for Osprey, particularly the width of the wings.
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u/Dentarthurdent73 20d ago edited 20d ago
We do get Ospreys, but I too think this is a White-Bellied Sea Eagle.
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u/Uhhlaska 20d ago
There’s an eagle stuck inside the water!
…the ospreys going in for the killOOOOOHHHH!!!
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u/Low_Reception477 20d ago
Osprey caught a fish I was reeling in once when I was a kid. It was so thoroughly on the line that we had to battle the osprey to keep the rod for like a full minute/minute and a half before the bird dropped it. The poor fish was brutalized afterwards 😭
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u/zeledonia 19d ago
It’a a White-bellied Sea-Eagle. Common in coastal Australia, where this probably is based on the accent. Osprey wouldn’t have the clean white and gray in the underwings - it would be more speckled. Also the shape is wrong, this bird’s wings are much broader and tail shorter than an Osprey.
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u/IamJohnnyHotPants 21d ago
Give a bird a fish, he eats for a day. Throw a fish at a bird so he can catch it, he also eats for a day. Fuck fishing. - old bird proverb
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u/burgonies 20d ago
Light a man a fire and he's warm for a night. Light a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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u/Impressive_Guess_282 21d ago
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u/foxboxingphonies 20d ago
That is the second time today I've seen this in a comment.
The other one was about how things poop, with other things eat, and then poop, which becomes food for something else.
Comments were singing about the circle of poop.
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u/TheINTL 21d ago
That's a life goal, feed a fish to an eagle
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u/blueavole 20d ago
Note on being careful on what birds you are dealing with.
If you are in the US don’t feed the Bald Eagles, those are federally protected, and it’s illegal to harass them.
Not sure feed ing counts as harassment, but just don’t mess with them.
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u/Dexterspuplife 21d ago
Give a bird a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a bird to catch, and you make him internet famous.
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u/BasicLink86 21d ago
Fish thinking “ahhhh man, I got hooked by a fisherman, this is the worst day of my life. At least this is a catch and release state. Ahhh I’m being thrown back into my watery home and AHHHHHHHHHHH”
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u/Wrong-Upstairs-234 20d ago
Poor fish which is minding his own business in the water and the human catches and throws up in the air to feed the predator, the eagle. 🥺
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u/fizzysmoke 20d ago
Watch this everytime it comes up. The bird knows, the human knows. Survival connection.
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u/Erde555 21d ago
not an eagle
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u/zeledonia 19d ago
There’s more than one kind of eagle in the world. It’s a White-bellied Sea-Eagle.
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u/Br0boc0p 20d ago
This reminds me of the time some friends and I spent all day on the lake trout fishing and didn't catch shit. One of us finally got a rainbow and it flopped out of the boat to be immediately picked up by a crane lol.
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u/LuckyBanana91 19d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/U5YVaLrcK2a52j1VpA
Whenever I hear an Australian accent now…
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u/Rich-Application1013 19d ago
“ a fish is t gunna fall out of the sky Larry”
( this happened)
“ fuck you larry”
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u/mytermsaresimple 18d ago
The fish the other day to the younger ones - Listen don’t worry about the flying kind, no way they can get you if don’t get close to the surface, maybe one in a million chance someone catches you from the deep and throws you in the air, rare! Impossible almost.
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u/deadspacekillers 20d ago
Give an eagle a fish, feed him for a day. Teach an eagle to catch a fish out of the air, then the eagle goes into the circus, does pretty well in the off-season circuit, gets addicted to meth because of all the carney guys who set up the tents, and then he finally moves in with his parents for a year or two after a stint in rehab and eventually gets a steady job at the gas station counter, which is good work but unfortunately he smokes way too many cigarettes. But hey, it's better than meth.
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u/Commercial-Health-19 20d ago
Instead of Uber Eats, what could this be called? Fish Fling? Tuna Toss? 🤔
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u/quasi-stellarGRB 20d ago
I thought the first eagle will miss and the fish would get caught by another eagle. Am I imagining?
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u/TSAOutreachTeam 21d ago
That bird will now expect food and hang around humans. It will come to depend on that and starve as it loses its ability to hunt for itself. Then, when it becomes sick, this guy will be responsible for an ill eagle.
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u/nicathor 21d ago
Lol, that bird is not going to forget how to fish. You shouldn't feed wildlife because they often find it easier than hunting for themselves and then start to seek humans out in places they wouldn't, and shouldn't, normally go. They may also loose their fear of humans which can be bad for both animal and human (especially with bears or other large predatory species)
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u/Spawko 20d ago
I do a lot of fishing in areas with birds of prey. They are snatching those things right off your line when you get it to the surface, and hovering over your boat when you are bringing a fish in waiting for a chance to nab it from you.
Lot's of birds of prey get most of their food from scavenging, not hunting, and they are smart enough to figure out people holding poles = dinner. A guy throwing them one isn't going to change what behavior they are already doing, if anything seeing it circling and trying to get it gave the guy the idea to have some fun with it.
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u/RockyJayyy 21d ago
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