Cormorant struggles to eat a live EEL

This shocking video shows the moment a cormorant caught and ate a live eel - but had to swallow it twice after the fish wriggled out its throat.

Chloe Leonard, 26, was out for a walk with her mum, Debbie, when she saw a bird she didn't recognise.

She quickly realised it was a cormorant and was amazed when the bird dived and returned to the surface with an eel in its beak.

But she was shocked when the bird then swallowed the eel, before getting locked in a bitter battle with its prey as the fish slithered back out the cormorants throat.