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He is a fisherman. It's called "cormorant fishing" and the basic idea is that the two birds have a collar on them so they can swoop down and catch fish without actually swallowing them. https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/07/catching-fish-using-birds-stunning-images-of-a-dying-art-in-china/277798/

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holy hell that's neat.

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I thought so too! I actually learned about these guys after a the iPhone 11 Pro came out and they were bragging about how great the camera was. Heres the article:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/share-your-best-iphone-night-mode-photos/

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Yep. I recognize this from reading about it years ago. Odd he has only one bird on this job.

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That is a dying occupation. Not many of those fisherman left fishing like that.