Stop, Thief

This photo was taken off the Galapagos last October by wildlife photographer Michael Poliza. 

He explains that local fishermen were cleaning their catch and the stuff they were throwing overboard was attracting a lot of birds.  The pelican had caught, and was in the process of swallowing, a chunk of fish when the frigate bird swooped in and snatched it right out of his beak.

The Hawaiian name for the frigate bird is iwa, which means thief.