You’ll definitely have seen pigeons and seagulls all over Venice either waiting for food or snatching it from you; but of course they are the usual customers, as the variety of animal life in the Venetian lagoon is beyond your imagination. If you took a swim, or even a walk in the shallow patches here, you’d see all types of fish, molluscs, insects, reptiles and small mammals swimming or crawling around. Naturally, they are the reason why there are so many birds lurking around; if you look out for them you’ll see more species than you can count, such as sparrows, egrets, grebes, black-headed gulls, mallards, cormorants, likely sun-bathinging wings open on top of the wooden bricole, and on rare occasions greater flamingos.
