Darnest Thing I've Ever Seen....Cornell Lab Live Cam on Kestrel Nest

[@Gigatony74]

I really thought they were eating their brother's stomach.

[@tinkertailor3115]

Gross.

[@alcenofolchini6971]

Survival of the fittest

[@roopkaransingh1560]

They are not eating fellow mate..they are behind a loath...check again

[@jennifers4528]

Lol me too!

[@onababona6101]

:-) :-) this has been my favorite for years :-) :-)

[@robin2012ism]

Mean little devils. I couldn't believe that the little guy was fighting so hard then was too tired to swallow his prize. At first, I thought they were eating the little guy! Good thing i stayed for the rally.

[@Katnea3]

I too thought the larger chicks were attacking their smaller sibling and pulling its guts out! (Sheesh) That said, I'm also somewhat curious as to why the caretakers didn't go ahead and cut up the meat into smaller pieces before serving it to the chicks? Hmm.. I'm also thinking that in the wild, the mother would feed her chicks smaller shreds of meat until they got older? (Shrug)

[@tokeygreene6160]

robin2012ism i think the same thing.

[@9798angel]

@@Katnea3 parents bring the food it is not provided, mum did feed appropriate pieces but as chicks of different sizes sometimes little takes bigs bite...thus this and little was ok after

[@holdingmytongue5508]

robin2012ism I better go back and watch the rally.. I couldn’t bare to think Cornell Lab would purposely not feed them.. I couldn’t bare to watch the end...

[@holdingmytongue5508]

Katnea B. I thought the same thing.. they were eating the runt

[@PaulA-zp7hn]

Yup, that's how it was growing up with my bigger brother.

[@davoodehajiraj]

Omg what a shot i too same as most of us thinking they're pulling out the little one's stomach , than I realise they sought of saving his life by pulling the big bite out of his swallowed food

[@suzannehall8834]

Sure glad I watched to the end! I thought they were eating their sibling. Thought only owls were cannibals. Was very happy to see the little guy flip himself over!! Hope he makes it with his big bully sibling. Phew.

[@lizl6232]

Suzanne Hall I thought so too

[@Missmarti77]

Sure looks like it

[@GS-st9ns]

I'm glad I read your comment because I was going to and the video and complain that KZbin is disgusting

[@serrocsc]

they were fighting over a piece of meat they werent eating each other

[@RebornAgain2024]

I did too!!!! I was feeling pretty traumatized because I could see he was breathing. Oh I thought was for the love of God die already don't let these peeps eat You Alive! That big guy is a jerk!

[@nanettemclean5]

Like Glen in walking dead!!! When you think walkers are eating him ! Lol

[@loral10311]

Like I said before these birds stress me out...😰

[@Hi-es7zd]

Ure still watching

[@loral10311]

@@Hi-es7zd that was 5 years ago

[@YRH-Kevin]

So warm❤

[@back5762]

ホッとしました❗️仲のいい兄弟で良かった～✨

[@びーの-o2k]

仲がいいとかじゃなくて、生存競争だけで生きてる感じ。ヒナでも生き残るのに必死！🥵

[@ムーミンムーミンムーミン]

ですよね〜安心しました♪

[@margertqueen2815]

Hihihihihihihih am laughing tears of joy because i thought they eating their sibling🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆 ooooh thank God😀😀😀

[@davoodehajiraj]

Ur tittle make the viewer like ohhh no what have u done u naughty Beautiful little chicks

[@momgma2583]

THAT was SHOCKING!!!!

[@youkie5321]

I have seen this video 2 months ago & saw it in a whole different way. I too thought they were trying to eat little bro ;-) I think that little one would have died if they would not have helped to eat that gigantic piece of food that was stuck in its throat! However, the chick trying to consume the LARGE bite (looks like a bird) looks like he is the littlest runt, looks like he has been bonked (hair missing) and he is very thin and he cowards down to the larger chick. So I think he definitely needs to eat. I sure would have liked to have seen the end of the video and how this worked out for the littlest baby chick. It does look like the big chick gave up, but we don't know that. Prayers that the little chick got to finish this meal and continued to eat and thrive to full fledge. 🥰❤️🦅🐥🐥🐥🦅❤️🌻 Thank you Joni T

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Cowers down, it's been repeatedly pecked and driven away. The most aggressive chick(s) get the most food.

[@colinbrooks6290]

Now that’s what you call competition 😂

[@dewbow134]

It's sad to see so many people in the comments calling them evil, devil birds and saying they're killing their siblings because at first it appears that way. People are calling them bad names, saying bad things about them, as if kestrels are the worst bird on earth. when in reality they are just getting a big piece that was too big out of its mouth. That also should be in the description. They're not evil. No cannibalism going on.

[@timpritts1499]

Oh! Boo! Hoo! Those despicable birds are nothing but demons from hell! He steal food from their siblings and kill their siblings!

[@jayhouse3149]

Did Junior get injured? Look liked big brother's talons were puncturing Jr.'s head!

[@graceminerva8053]

I remember repeatedly doing that to my younger brother with my elder sister.... over a bottle of Coca cola. .... until he learned to spit into it in front of us before we were able to grab it. 🤮

[@Turtleback8024]

Good! little brother!🤣

[@lindaw2165]

I watched this live when it happened and I though Chester (the little guy) was a goner. He took such a big bite I thought he was going to choke. But the sheer hungry greed of the other two helped pull the meal back and shredded it into something more manageable for the little guy. He was going into a food coma before he had it all properly swallowed!

[@persy1]

What was it they were eating?

[@lindaw2165]

@@persy1 Hard to say. Don't want to look too close anyway!

[@vern0018]

I thought I saw big bro bit his feet 3 times.

[@kol2han]

​@@vern0018 These are the kestrel cubs. they do not harm each other. The pup is about to choke because it ate a large piece. the other two are trying to eat the food in its mouth. so it doesn't bite the little one's foot. it looks like that from afar.

[@vern0018]

@@kol2han thank you

[@TheGreatOne16439]

I've always been amazed at how these chicks never really get into fights with each other. A tug o' war maybe but never mean nasty downright fighting.

[@Annabella0131]

This is the worst I've seen Kestral chicks do to another.....it's not very nice at all

[@TheGreatOne16439]

Anne Schnur not sure what you mean, they're just fighting over food which is perfectly normal amongst siblings.

[@digimonalvatrax2738]

Sometimes they do but it's not that serious

[@MzChelxoxo]

How... in the world did that little birds stomach not explode.

[@Daisy-mk3lg]

I very surprised that comets didn't stop them and rescue the little one.

[@titanosaurdy9493]

Mac ((large chick)) : CHARLIE SHARE YOUR EATING EVERYTHING!!! Charlie((small chick)) : NO MINE! ALL MINE *chokes and has difficulty on swallowing* Mac: Idiot! Your choking it em up, give us the food!

[@calixxlivin]

That one in the back just sleeps through everything

[@Turtleback8024]

...and mom comes and ask ‘what happened here Scott’? Dunno mom, was high the whole time.😂

[@tdh0084]

seems to me that the chick who took the huge bite couldve been chocking to death and its siblings saw the remaining food hanging out of its mouth and tried to eat it, and in doing so managed to pull the food out of the original chicks mouth long enough for it to breathe and regain its composure so it could swallow the big bite. (That was literally my thinking from start to finish. then i read the comments and saw that most people saw it as 2 chicks stealing food from another chick). personally i like to believe the "choking chick saved by siblings" point of view... idc if im right or not lol but the chick who originally took the bite didnt look good at all for most of the video.

[@TWOSU_NEWS]

Takeing the term ***mine*** to a whole new level

[@steviegee2011]

we were 6 kids growing up I’ve seen this before at home 🏠

[@microtyger]

😄😄😄

[@youkie5321]

Yes, it was very strange. I too thought they were trying to eat little bro ;-) I think that little one would have died if they would not have helped to eat that gigantic piece of food that was stuck in its throat! I still wish they could have gotten a little bit more out of its mouth, but I guess things worked out for this little baby :-o Wow 😲 🤢 🐣 💗 Ty for sharing joni T

[@chihungcheung8404]

有很多人以為大鳥在吃最小的鳥.. 之後又說只是張那隻快死的小鳥口中的食物拉出來，幫助小鳥呼吸.. 但我有一個看法，其實兩樣都是沒錯！ 最初小鳥動也不動的時候，那些比較大的小鳥餓壞了真的會有當死掉的小鳥是食物的想法，所以最大的兩隻才會不斷試探性攻擊，之後巧合地從小鳥口中拉出食物，其實大鳥以為是小鳥的一部份（食物），才會巧合地讓小鳥得到幫助，幫助小鳥還在口中的食物拉出來，好讓小鳥能夠呼吸。 一開始小鳥被攻擊時身體只有很少的反應.. 但之後小鳥身體有了更大的反應和吱吱叫，那兩隻大的小鳥才突然停止，應該是覺得小鳥動了，不再當小鳥是食物，但轉而搶小鳥口中的食物。

[@shannonspage9360]

It not yours until it’s all in your stomach. Leaving any hanging spaghetti is open invitation for a sibling to try to steal your meal

[@SaddamHossain-q2w]

So ❤ cute baby 🕊️ i ❤️ very 😊😊

[@sandymoser1542]

JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN IT . WOW 😮

[@komicsreviewer8505]

Eaten alive!

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Just when you've seen it ALL.

[@SamtheMan0508]

Hurry and bring more food mom!

[@yassinemhanni2452]

Michele Pohl ,maar

[@pajhuab85]

Michele Pohl that's their sibling

[@faqih22]

What they eat

[@Super-lj7is]

don't worry, they only used their little brother as a table to eat, they weren't really eating his belly, it was just a piece of meat from another animal :)

[@elzayx9222]

Chick was helping his siblings for get choke out...that why it pic on it to help get the big peace of food out

[@Ghostrider1717x]

Man that was a horrific scene to start with! I thought it was being eaten alive

[@jamespriddy8275]

Animals don’t have feelings. We just think they do. It’s all instinct. A baby bird would join in feasting on itself if it didn’t get weak from being eaten.

[@komicsreviewer8505]

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!

[@veronicapace7198]

If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't believe it.... lol

[@ekaterinaaitbalaeva5175]

They help him! But I thought....

[@rockercater]

OMG, I thought they were eating him...

[@RafiqulIslam-mw3pp]

No sacrifice themself. becoming stronger robbing food from other

[@austin1839]

Another example of the stomach overloading the mouth.

[@onababona6101]

hahahhaha...:-) I still love it :-) :-) :-)

[@zulemasanchez1233]

When they get hungry enough they do attack the weakest one.

[@alisalauzon6454]

Dang that one is way bigger..They are squabbling crazily lol..

[@sunmillions8800]

The other bird like wtf

[@tinkertailor3115]

Why is that chick so much bigger??

[@crystalmiller9678]

Tinker Tailor because they lay 4-6eggs a clutch 3 days in between each egg & start incubation period right as the 3rd egg gets laid.. so if there’s 4 eggs the 1st 3 will hatch 3 days before if there’s a 5th egg 6 days before & everyday they grow & change so much! I have seen owls, hawks, eagles, pretty much every raptor but an osprey eat a tiny or very small sibling before.. sometimes they just get in way on accident or sometimes food is scarce & smallest goes 1st..

[@darkcloud5530]

Like so many others...I thought they were eating their sibling. They pecked him hard several times...I do believe that the momentum of natures' feeding frenzy kicked in there for a bit and that wee one WOULD have been a goner had it not stopped. You know...bullies that start in on someone then the frenzy kicks in and they just don't stop ....

[@robmar7190]

Poor guy’ he was always lagging behind his brothers and sisters’ eating last after they were full and just the runt’ of the bunch’ not to many days left?

[@marimarbatagia1071]

Eu não deixaria isso acontecer

[@yywant-qb7om]

I almost thought it was brothers who cut open the youngest brother and ate his intestines.

[@candidwhite5826]

They saved his life. Notice eyes and breathing...

[@jayhouse3149]

At first glance it looked like Junior was being cannibalized!

[@hexgbanger2510]

One of the most frustrating videos I have watched.

[@MrHercules604]

birds? cannibals - devils brother the end...

[@johnkmatsch]

just rested while the others lubed and elongated it. Then went down quite well.

[@Onababona]

and I found it again :-) 🙂

[@jenniferyeepc3928]

1.20 The big Kids are bullying the small one

[@mikejonson2939]

It's crazy mother's have not control of the siblings attacking each other guess she's like survival of the fittest

[@zulemasanchez1233]

Mom either got killed or abandoned the chicks.

[@MrEdrazo]

At first I thought there was cannibalism... junior being a snack for its siblings... nah... clickbait... lol

[@joshuakeely5593]

So he was choking and they saved him because his eyes were bigger then his stomach. Nice to have family that lives you. Me my family would watch me choke and die with the food I bought them.

[@D1it4FN]

They were playing doctors?🤔😮

[@Annabella0131]

I think the big one has learnt that behaviour from his Mom!

[@digimonalvatrax2738]

4:20 I like how he chases the other one away because it's just eating instead of helping

[@fewferfev]

Where's the human helper???

[@9798angel]

How was that sibling not hurt with biggo stepping all over its stomach and head? Then I watched til the end and it seemed it was trying to help...amazing

[@enricotoesca3941]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@GS-st9ns]

I watched a lot of videos of on birds and leaves of the most vicious I've seen yet. Turn and eat each other.

[@crazyfx5242]

The big one is a mean punk.. But I really thought they all were killing the other one in the beginning.. PHEW it wasnt that.

[@brendaanne0810]

Big one's a bully!!

[@denamaes7499]

Brenda Anne L older ones usually are

[@learninglasvegas..1822]

We need to report this is someone this is not okay 😣😣😣😣😣😣

[@stevieboy7873]

Joys off older siblings, I got knocked about by my older brothers but done me no harm except taught me not to take anyone's shite. 👍

[@frenchpoodle7665]

Where are the parents? fighting for food an hurting the baby sibling in the process. just awful!

[@TaureanBlueSoul]

OMG!

[@duchett743]

Looks like they ate the food and crop fur and all.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

You see the camera over ther? Let play something dramatic.

[@pattiniamo10]

Are these Kestrels in New York ? I had 2 near me in Chinatown that stopped on my fire escape ladder often , and I saw them even in winter with snow and ice. You are lucky to have a camera in their nest to monitor.

[@pajhuab85]

Doing the tug a war they started to kiss😂😂😘😘

[@wunnenberfuhrer8016]

q carajos se estan comiendo?

[@sirleideabreu6063]

Kkkkkkk olhando bem agora que entendi, eles não estão comendo o irmão, certamente havia uma caça em cima dele....

[@mwall8687]

At first i thought they were trying to eat their sibling

[@raftarhussain4739]

Hunger can make u do anything

[@edic2619]

Great

[@sanjoseerick]

At first I thought someone attacks the chick, then I thought also that they eating there siblings

[@swopipw8552]

ALLAHOUAKBAR EVEN BIRDS ARE MORE HUMAN THAN HUMANS BEING WHAT THIS WORLD IS GOING TO ITS END FOR SURE!

[@SynnJynn]

Dang, he bit off more then he could chew

[@lizzzzzzzz]

i legit thought they were eating the little one alive.

[@carolclerke1625]

It's like watching "Survival of the Fittest". Awesome but awful.

[@frenchpoodle7665]

Just such cruel nature! they need for food in the nest.

[@committedfathers]

Eating to Survive

[@annecronin8339]

It looks like they disemboweled and eating their chick sibling! Horrific! Oh, ok, a bone is stuck in the crop if the chick and the bigger chick is trying to pull it out to get some of it. Yeah that is disgusting. Bleah 🤢

[@nadinecrupi5481]

Wow...

[@creativitymetalsscrapwaffe409]

Begining video I think caníbal birds, but now He only think for himself

[@joeyluvgirls]

Savage. This shit wicked Oh. Nvm. This is love

[@rosehernandez475]

No no evil

[@onababona6101]

if you do not like it so much then why are you coming back to this video so many times????

[@nigelmitchell351]

Stop it I'm telling mum wait till she gets back!

[@sunmillions8800]

Oh they fighting over food

[@SaddamHossain-q2w]

Please 🥺 sef baby 🐦😢😢 very bad 😞 baby 😔 adersh

[@jurengarcia7954]

😩

[@rubybondy5685]

That's sad they always pick on weak ones.

[@freeassange402]

This Big One makes me Angry