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American Bittern eats a HUGE frog!

May 2, 2016 by animalartist2 | Comments Off

This bird had quite a struggle with the frog, but it finally got eaten. Took over 10 minutes from capture to swallow.  Here is a sequence, lasting about 10 minutes. (Just a few pictures culled from the whole).

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