While it was shocking to see, she and her bf witnessed a bald eagle slam a large owl to the ground and attack it they ran outside and the eagle took off, the owl was still alive so they put it in the old dog house incase it was just stunned but, it died over night so they buried it. There are wild rabbits all over the place, I have to stop the car many times just driving down the long dirt road as to not run over them, don't know why the Eagle went after the Owl and do not know why the large owl was out and about during the day but, the moment she told me my mind went straight to the symbology of it all. Eagle taking out the Owl.
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While shocking, bird vs bird as prey is v common.
Sometimes eagles attack owls over territory, less often as a meal.
Hawks love fledglings.
Crows main predators are owls, hawks and eagles
Owls eat song birds and so it goes round and round...
Still cool as heck tho!
One of the coolest things I ever saw like that was a peregrine falcon take a dove. It used the momentum from an almost vertical dive to flatten out and glide about 100 feet only a couple feet off the ground into a group of doves. They all took off but the falcon grabbed one in an explosion of feathers
I witnessed a group of crows attack a red tail hawk's nest once, strangest thing I ever saw.
As most of the crows would engage in arial combat with the hawk, literally mid air collision, a few of the crows would grab the fledgling, flying high and dropping them on the concrete, flying down grabbing them to drop once more. The crows ended up killing all three of the fledgling.
My Girlfriend at the time was a bird freak, and had all kind of feeders up, so it was a buffet for the hawks, the crows didn't eat the fledglings. It was territorial or revenge.
Strangest thing I've ever seen crows do.
It's Chicago in bird world.
It was coordinate and relentless, I gained a new respect for crows that day.
Birdbrain just didn't apply anymore.
I believe the crew of crows would have ruled
Chit-cago...