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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

334. THE SEAGULL AND THE KITE
Perry 139 (Chambry 193)

A seagull swallowed a fish and ruptured his throat. When a kite saw the seagull lying dead on the beach, he remarked, 'It serves you right! You were born to fly in the air and instead you lived your life on the sea.'
Those who abandon their familiar trade and dedicate themselves to an unknown profession naturally come to a bad end.

Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.