Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/02/watch-crows-attack-a-bald-eag.html
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One afternoon while talking on the phone for a job pre interview screen I had to ask for a pause in the conversation as the crows were being loud all of a sudden and I looked up to see them ganging up on an eagle who was just passing by. It was pretty cool.
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There’s a message here, I’m not very sure though what it is…
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ONE NIGHT ONLY:
A Flock of Seagulls
The Eagles
Counting Crows
TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME
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I read it as “Cows attack bald eagle” and immediately thought of this:
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Canadian crows attack the American bald eagle that was attacking a young immigrant sea gull? Something like that…
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Roger That!
Canadian crow… corvid, eh?
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Antifa crows?
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I hate crows, they harrassed a hawk and owl that lived near me. Then they would gather on the porch near my bedroom and caw as soon as the sun came up. A few times during the year they would try and roost in my yard. I could hear them a mile away.
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Yeah, but there’s a murder of crows while there is just one gull. The other day I saw a group of gulls harassing a juvenile bald eagle. Could this behavior be not so much an example of something inherent in the species as the ratio of species?
I see crows and magpies escort hawks out of their territory all the time. It’s like street gangs in the sky. “Git da fuck outta heah!”
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And then the mammals get involved [caution: cute puppy!]. This mammal vs. dinosaurs game is ever evolving, ain’t it?
It’s the mocking birds that are fierce in my neighborhood. Diving into into cats and harassing the crows. Then they imitate the car alarms and harass me. I personally don’t mind they teach Fluffy a lesson now and then (Don’t eat the flying dinosaurs) but I do worry that a Fluffy Jr. might be picked up for an afternoon snack by the crows. We also have coyotes, big racoons and the occasional wildcat that pares down the slow-moving population at night.
I’ve learned to only let out the “porch ornaments” that are too big/slow/old to catch anything bigger than a gopher or mouse and only during the day.
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You can try propping yourself up on a scarecrow support and try scaring them away.
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When I was out running yesterday I saw some small raptor in the road ahead, as I got close it flew off with the prize, and there on the pavement was a pile of feathers, and the decapitated head of a mourning dove.
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My former employer was situated near a large estuarine lagoon. At lunch I would often watch the local bald eagle family attack and steal the catches of the more numerous and enterprising ospreys whose nests lined the power poles along the shore.
They’d dive bomb the ospreys mid-air and catch the fish as it was falling and the poor ospreys would have to go back and catch another.
There’s a moral here somewhere. But Ben Franklin was certainly right when he said, The bald eagle is a “Bird of bad moral Character.”
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Opening act: Big Pun
Ugh - mourning doves are my favorite, and some hang out in my yard. I had no idea there was such violence among birds, but the raptors in my area tend to stay in wooded areas like parks and hunt for bigger game.
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prime mover seyz:
Turtles all the way down and birds all the way up!
