Dear Michel, I saw your mail, and have a single observation of bait-fishing Striated Herons. This was back in 1986 in Singapore, in the extensive bird park there—-I now cannot remember the name, but there is only one of that size (Jurong is the name, maybe). The heron I saw bait fishing—too far away to see what exactly he (or she) put out, but I rather think it was bread or something like that. I watched the bird for maybe a quarter of an hour, and all that time he put out bait and followed it downstream (there was some current in the water), and a few times he caught small fishes. At the end the bird flew away, out of the park, and thus it clearly was a wild bird, even though the observation was in a bird park. I am a retired biologist, prof. emer. of zoology at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Wim Vader, Tromsø Museum 9037 Tromsø, Norway Wim.vader@uit.no
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