Following on from the slimy mac attack - I got a bit of a chuckle at Caloundra on Saturday. The son-in-law took an empty plastic bottle to the cleaning station to get fresh water. No fish being cleaned - just a number of pelicans standing round. SIL went to turn the tap on - pelican attacked his hand. Went to turn it on again - same thing. He tried pushing it away and it bit his upper arm leaving a nasty scratch. Meanwhile I was rolling round the boat laughing
Classic Pete. They're not scared around here, I still remember seeing one hooked by a cast, didn't even put a swerve in its flight just kept going. Poor guy who hooked it had no idea what was going on.
Joel
Fishing for the thrill, not for the kill
I seen a couple of Pelicans kill a cormorant at Seaworld a few years back. The cormorant was pretty crook and they went to town on it. They just kept snapping at its neck, dunk it until it drowned. Freaked the keepers out.
i've seen a video somewhere... probably on youtube... where a pelican gobbled up a live duck
Boy, those pelicans on the North Coast must be very boistrous. A pelican flew into a mate's tinny and as he reached around to get his oar to shoo it away, it bit him on the bum. The real laughter started when he had to go to Nambour Hospital a week later with an infection and explain it to the nurses.
Funniest thing i ever saw with pelicans was in Ningi creek about ten yrs ago. I was pulling in the crab pots and there was a troupe of pelicans following the boat fighting over the baits. I was using mullet chopped in half and threw a head out to the pelicans. The one that caught it managed to slip his top beak up inside the gut cavity and its hook on its beak couldnt be dislodged to get it off. Talk about a rumble!! the poor bugger could barely float by the time the others got the head off him, but talk about a commotion!!
Jack.
I too was attacked by a pelican!
I was jumping off a bridge at Noosa (as you do when your young and bullet proof) when I felt a smack/crack on my shoulder and something wet run down my back........... and it stank.
Being young I thought a passing car of other youngsters had thrown a rotten egg at me!, As I looked round, and there were no cars around, and upon looking up I saw a pelican re-adjusting itself after dropping its guts on my back.
Some has told me since that it is good luck to have a pelican sh!t on you.
I am still waiting!
(Although 10 years later, upon reflection I was probably lucky to live through the silly things I did as a youngster, i.e. jumping off bridges for fun)eers
Cheers
Jim
It was a pigeon apparently!Originally Posted by Local_Guy
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Dave
A mate of mine had a pelican crap on his car when he was going over the bridge to redcliffe. You should have seen the car, it was painted white. Funniest shit I have ever seen. To top it off, the crap run into the vents near the windscreen. It took months and months before the stench went!
I remember when I was a little kid and me and my brother used to feed the pelicans fish heads while dad was cleaning. They weren't shy about stealing fish off the cleaning tables either. Once when I was about 4 or 5 i think, I held out a fish head ready to throw it to them, when one ran up, and in trying to grab the head, tried to swallow my whole arm as well, scared the living daylights out of me at that age.
I remember seeing a story in the papers a long time ago where a lady had her chihuahua on a remote beach and it started to bark at a pelican which was a little close to it. The pelican retaliated by swooping it up in its large beak. The dog was last seen heading south at approximately 100 feet never to be seen again.
Poodroo
He who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
Hi Poodroo,I remember seeing a story in the papers a long time ago where a lady had her chihuahua on a remote beach and it started to bark at a pelican which was a little close to it. The pelican retaliated by swooping it up in its large beak. The dog was last seen heading south at approximately 100 feet never to be seen again.
Poodroo
That one is an old urban myth that does the rounds regulary!!, probably in threads like this one LOL
http://www.snopes.com/critters/mishaps/dognap.asp
Cheers
Dave
Lol Dave. Just shows that you can't always trust what you read in the papers. I might do my own myth busters thing and stand on a beach feeding chihuahuas to pelicans.
Poodroo
He who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
While we're on the pelican theme,going back a few years ago a group of a few mates,my older bro,and myself were camping for a few days at Katherine Gorge,having a breather from travelling.There was a resident pelican in the park which wouldn't leave us alone,one day at lunch we were making mince jaffles on the single burner gas cooker,my bro had waited patiently for his turn,when he finally turned his steaming hot jaffle out onto his plate old mate the pelican came from nowhere and scooped up the jaffle and pissed off across the park making the loudest rackett,but he never dropped his prize.We all sat and pissed ourselves laughing as there was no more bread left.Still cracks me up.JIm
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Here is the original full clip of the Pelican eating the Pigeon. It did not go down as easy as the news clip showed it!
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Dave
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