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Female Osprey scoffs a huge Mullet, leaving the scraps to a pair of Ravens.

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This female Australasian Osprey (Pandion haliaetus cristatus) frequents the eastern edge of Peel Inlet at Coodanup, about 60 kilometres south of Perth in Western Australia. She is a successful fish predator and mother, raising three chicks last breeding season. This video shows her tearing up and eating a large Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus), holding the fish in her talons as she perches on a fallen log eats it. It is unusual to see Ospreys eating their prey on the ground – the mostly consume fish while perched. When she had finished, she took up and flew to the estuary to bathe. A pair of Australian Ravens (Corvus coronoides perplexus) had been watching while she fed and arrived a few minutes later to clean up the scraps.

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