Pelicans Feast On Cape Gannet Chicks | Life | BBC Earth

Gannets aren't after fish. Their sights are set on a bigger catch. Malgas Island is the nesting ground for some 60,000 Cape gannets. Normally, one gannet parent goes off fishing while the other looks after the chick. But declining fish stocks means both parents are off and away hunting at the same time, leaving their chicks unguarded. Something which hasn't gone unnoticed by the pelicans. Only chicks with parents at their side, or those too large to swallow, have a chance. In the colony, the parents regurgitate partially digested gannet chicks for their brood. Although most seabird colonies on the African Cape are in decline, the population of white pelicans nesting on Dassen is growing.