June 21st, 2020: Pelican Crossing

[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)

[Carruthers]

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...

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.

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.

Nature is red in tooth and claw.

BBC article

[Griff]

and beak and gular pouch