Minners in underground aquafers? You believe that, but not the bird part?

Yeah, because I have seen it. Never saw a bird carry a bucket of bass and stock a pond.

Also no one mentioned the fact that is has been proven that storms / tornadoes, etc, can suck up water, fish, eggs, etc, etc, and literally transport them for miles...and drop them in another body of water.

I grew up in Michigan and one rainy spring we had a lot of water standing for a month or so. I found a few deeper mud puddles with bluegill minnows 1/2 inch long or so. No way other than birds that those minnows ended up in a mud puddle lol.

One bass at a time, a kingfisher can stock many, many ponds.

Yep, there are fish in underground aquifers as well.

And fish eggs that can lay dry for decodes, then hatch when the rain comes.

Much faster to stock it.

Quite interesting facts. Make me wanted to make a pond on my backyard and document it. Nature's got its way of cycle life.

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I've never seen it, but always heard about raining minnows and frogs. From what I've seen here and in life itself, if you've got a pond, its hard to keep fish out of it.

I've seen it rain fish from the sky twice. Weird, but easily explainable in both cases.

The first time it was threadfin shad raining out of the sky by the thousands, from many hundreds of feet up, they looked like silver dollars falling from heaven.....

I drove up onto a large pond (40 or 50 acres) we were raising shad in. It was covered up in pelicans, big white ones. when I drove up they were startled and took off, laboriously running across the surface of the lake and trying to get airborne. When the flock of about 200 birds got to around 150 or 200 feet up they all began to upchuck their full bellies of shad. I learned later that as the air thins, they must work harder to remain in it and will pitch up a big meal in order to lose weight to gain altitude.

They began to just pour the fish out of their mouths like shovels full of silver dollars shining in the sun as they fell to earth.

The second time it was at the big catfish farm. The fish in a 20 acre pond were sick and "riding high" near the top of the pond. The water had cleared and the fish were easily visible from above. The pelicans landed and feasted on the slow, sick catfish. when I drove up they startled and did the same difficult take off to the air. But this time, as they strove to gain altitude, I saw something hit the water by me like it was a cannon ball. Then another hit the levee...WHAM!!

These were one and half and two pounders, not some small light shad, and they were hitting all around me. I got in the truck, and it got hit twice, huge dents, and watched it rain catfish as the flock of 300 or so pelicans rose into the sky. That one was scary.

When I was about 8 yo we lived in Wichita Falls. It came a sorm and we went to my Grandparents to the cellar. After the storm passed we came out and there were little perch/sunfish, whatever you want to cal them, all over the yard flipping around.

This spreading of eggs is also a way nature keeps the DNA fresh

He's right about the minners in the aquifers. It is believed by many scientist that Texas has one of the biggest underground flowing water supplies in the world. There's no telling what creatures can be found just a few feet underground in the abundant karst formations that are common across much of Texas.

I do believe birds and other creatures can and do distribute fish. A well known Zebra mussel study definitively proved that their veligers can survive trips across dry land in the down and feathers of ducks. They also concluded that they were never transported to other lakes in enough numbers to establish a viable breeding population. This is the study that all government entities base their policies on. Go figure,