Who Will Get The Fish? | Outside My Window

30 July 2025

What happens when four African animals/birds all want to eat the same fish? The video at the end will show you how it works.

The players in this drama are:

African fish eagle (Icthyophaga vocifer), shown at top, very similar to North America’s bald eagle.

Goliath heron (Ardea goliath), the world’s largest living heron.

Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), a large stork though not as massive as the goliath heron.

Crocodile, probably the slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops leptorhynchus). Crocodiles eat everything they can catch including birds.

The goliath heron catches a fish, but who gets to eat it?