Great Blue Heron and the Black Armor Catfish Number 2
by L Bosco
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Great Blue Heron and the Black Armor Catfish Number 2
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L Bosco
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Photograph - Digital Image
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DescriptionIt's great fun watching our wading birds swallow large fish. It is an entire process in which the bird manipulates the fish in such a way that it is swallowed whole...head first. These large herons may eat two or three fish a day. This particular fish, a favorite of the heron, is sad to say, an invasive, that damages the wetlands with its burrows. Loricariidae (armored catfish) are far less welcome than most catfish. The non-native and invasive species have rugged scales along their backs and spiky fins, thus not a great fish to eat for humans. Catching the South American natives can be difficult, as the armored catfish reportedly are not baited by fishing hooks and must instead be caught by nets or even spears.
The Loricariids are a popular aquarium fish, so likely released fish are the source of this fish. In an aquarium, they use their suckered mouths to clean algae from tanks. But that same behavior that is helpful in fish tanks actually erodes local shorelines up to 10 feet as the fish devastate aquatic plant life.
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December 12th, 2020
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