Falcon *Merlin catches starling "Warning Nature at it's rawest" YouTube

[@kwabenaasare1623]

Mad respect for not recording vertical 👏🏿

[@joehunter2805]

👏

[@ianalen1687]

he is the worst dement on yt constantly babbling his bs

[@richardbool4232]

What a beautiful bird the Merlin is and the magpies were trying to scare it away so they could steal the starling for themselves.

[@jlescoe21]

I need one of these falcons to kill the starlings that have invaded my house.

[@Heheyeahboy]

Nope

[@Heheyeahboy]

Magpie aren't a starling killer

[@nayas-content7575]

@@Heheyeahboythey wanted to steal the starling for free food.

[@dogsareboss]

Great footage, sir. You're very lucky to witness this in your own front garden (yard).

[@TeamAvode]

We had a sparrow hawk fly into our kitchen chasing a sparrow lmao 😂

[@stevehove2648]

Definitely!

[@a420man2]

Those magpies were not coming to the starling's defense. They wanted to shoo away the falcon to eat it themselves.

[@TeamAvode]

Yeah they were still scared though they had to come with their friends lmao 😂

[@darylkemp1257]

Love how the sparrowhawk stands up to the magpies 3 magpies against 1 little sparrowhawk she still makes her kill 💪💪💪💪

[@andrewparfrement8583]

Daryl Kemp it’s a falcon!, as it’s wings are pointed short tail and it kills the prey using the hook on it’s beak. Probably as the description suggests a merlin. Hawks have short round wings and a long tail. Your welcome.

[@KryptxniaN-]

Daryl Kemp looks like a Merlin

[@eelsoirdor3573]

For sure the Magpies would have eaten the dead Starling, but they also hate Hawks. They often mob them to scare them away, specially if there is a nest close.

[@m.alanjenkins4792]

It is indeed a Merlin, a small falcon with the scientific name of Falco columbarius (which should be in Italics, but the KZbin comments does not support italics). It is a dark colored subspecies of Merlin, the black Merlin that nests in the northwestern U.S. and southwestern Canada, but can be found farther east in the winter when it migrates to the south and east. The Black-billed Magpies were trying to bully the Merlin to abandon its prey so the could have it instead. The Merlin would have killed the Starling faster by biting its neck and severing the vetebral nerves if the magpies hadn't been bothering it.

[@marchutchinson1038]

Yer we have merlins in the uk down in the southwest cornwall area! Rumour has it they are named after wizard as they are mysterious bird thats that you only see fly on the twlight!

[@andrewhansen4179]

Hello Alan. Great comment sir. I see your .edu email address isn't available any more and I'd occasionally like to stay in touch. If you still have mine, send me yours. If you don't have mine, and you want to, email Scott S. and have him send it to me. Hope you and Sal are doing great. Lots of Coopers hawk action here this year, some of it quite unusual. DH

[@andrewhansen4179]

Merlin falcon ridding our environment of an invasive species. Starlings are an invasive species in North America and are extremely hard on other native bird species in terms of the starlings very aggressive nesting behavior. Glad to see another starling bite the dust. Starlings are also very hard on many fruit crops. Thank you Merlin falcon. Magpies want to eat the dead starling and Merlin would have killed it quickly without the magpie intrusion.

[@المفتيعبدالله-ي8ه]

Our existence as a human being is a threat to the earth and the continuation of life the earth Do you also want a predator to eat you alive?

[@minxella12]

@@المفتيعبدالله-ي8ه Besides the Merlin being a native species, should he be retrained to find some carrots instead?

[@sashawalls9693]

Cats are also ridding all of the native birds and other animals by killing them in the billions, people should keep their cat indoors.

[@Julia.Taunton-Clark99]

Andrew Hansen Now, I don’t normally like this happening, but upon reading that Starlings are invasive, I can only say the Merlin did a good job, ensuring there’s one less invader out flying free

[@billwalbek1911]

Andrew Hansen v

[@osagiedejos7893]

That falcon is a professional killer, it was concentrating on the position of the hart and repeatedly piercing that same place aided the quick death of its prey. Amazing clips.

[@Flipson456]

It was piercing through the jugular vein.

[@richardwinfield6739]

Very lucky to have Merlins in your area .

[@jasonpatterson8091]

Had the magpies not been bothering it, that starling would have been dispatched much more quickly. Unlike sharp-shinned or cooper's hawks, a falcon (like this merlin) has a notch on its beak called a tomial tooth. Its sole purpose is to sever the spines of prey. You saw how the merlin kept biting the starling's neck - that's what it was going for. A sharp-shin or cooper's would have gone for the guts first and just started eating the starling alive.

[@JCVdude]

thanks for info

[@nimaarezoomandi5325]

That s very true bro 👍

[@michaelnewell6040]

Nature can be cruel some times, but look at that stunning bird

[@coffeehugger]

You did a great job filming that. Super cool to witness such a thing.

[@enderblaze3277]

That's definitely a merlin you can tell by its call and small stature. Nice catch 👍

[@sumoninja141]

Thank you for not interfering. A lot of idiots would've went out there and scared the predator away and robbed it of it's hard earned meal.

[@TeamAvode]

Yep some idiots would

[@hectorgoytia1640]

I raise birds in my back yard ever since I was 15 yrs old now 40 !!! I’ve killed numerous hawks larking around my house! I protect birds from intruders

[@hectorgoytia1640]

Take it to the woods is what I say to the hawks get out of here cuz I’m a killer

[@pershop4950]

@@hectorgoytia1640 It depends on the scenario,. If you're feeding a bunch of birds regularly in a bird feeding area, and a hawk comes by to take advantage of the grouping of birds, you may feel anger against the hawk. but if you're just looking out the window and see the hawk has captured a small bird, it's not something that I think I would feel anger or sadness about since i recognize the hawk's need to get food.

[@at6686]

Yup. Leave the falcon alone. Whack the magpie.

[@andydowden8117]

It’s a female merlin as a falconer I’ve had many of which I’ve hunted with however your lucky to have witnessesed nature close up excellent video big thumbs up👍

[@drew63215]

I have a ball python and for some reason it wouldn't eat a weanling rat I bought it. It was in there for a whole day so the next morning I took it out and threw it in the backyard. My house is surrounded by a bunch of trees. I looked up because I heard some birds squawking. I looked harder and saw this big hawk that was facing the birds but had its back towards me. He turned around and looked down. By the way he was looking, I knew he spotted the rat. It being bright white in field of green and brown grass didn't help it to hide either...lol. I knew what was about to happen and was about to turn and go get my phone to record it, but just then the hawk did a DiveBomb. It looked like a bomb being dropped from a plane, and it stayed like that until almost close to the ground. Then at the last second, it spread its wings to fly horizontal to the ground and snatched the rat up so quickly I barely saw him grab it. It flew away with the rat and into the woods with the other birds chasing it. I thought it was going to just grab the rat there and eat it, but to see how it went from vertical to horizontal to grab the mouse without missing a beat or slowing down was Amazing. Nature at its best.

[@ryanodonnell6748]

Cool video and thanks for uploading it for us all to see. I stay in Glasgow (SCOTLAND) and we have loads of birds of prey and Deer and Badgers near and of course the old Suburban Fox. Yeah I liked your video and well done for adding no music and just playing the video as you recorded it. Nice 1 my friend

[@SaintMichael82]

1:17 killing blow. Watch the bird gasp for air. Beautiful!

[@oddbod8655]

Amazing footage. Earlier this year outside our gates, we saw a hawk kill a squirrel .Nature is tough.

[@grainofsalt4934]

Awesome Video Sir! Very much enjoyed it.

[@gregoriaarteaga4460]

Is not easy, but is nature. I think Falcons are beautiful raptors

[@leroyrussell8766]

I don't think you can say you have empathy, if you don't feel sorry for the little bird, but I always try to remember that these birds are all opportunists, and even that starling will eat the babies of other animals, or tiny animals, if it has the opportunity. At the same time, the Hawk may have babies to feed, and one day, it is likely that the Hawk will also be eaten by something. Maybe it gets too old, or gets injured, and another predator sees its weakness, and jumps on the opportunity at a meal. Maybe a Owl, or Eagle, or Fox, or even an ordinary house cat.

[@jlsracing997]

That's the first one that I have seen put a killing bite on the neck. Pretty smart if you ask me. All the other I have seen are more concerned with plucking feathers and not killing it and therefore sometimes they get away.

[@philippepiette7254]

We have a Merlin falcon currently nesting near a strip mall in our city. She’s vicious! The sidewalk has been closed off. This bird is actually picking humans and hospitalizing them with minor scratches

[@revertedakhi]

The zoom tho! Nice shots sir.

[@JCVdude]

Thanks!

[@russellallen9648]

Starlings are in no danger of going extinct...they are major pests...also they are nest robbers of songbirds

[@48grainsoffreedom]

There are no pest in nature. Only what we consider pests to us, humans, without realizing that the pnly pests are us, human beings.

[@russellallen9648]

@@48grainsoffreedom I do agree with you to a point...but starlings are a non native or evasive species in the states. They got introduced here to help with the Japanese Beetle problem.... Humans screw up nature all the time. Human pests

[@BillSikes.]

Don't talk such rubbish, no birds are invasive, they naturally migrate and have done for tens of thousands of years

[@russellallen9648]

@@BillSikes. research my friend just do your research

[@danhillman4523]

It's quite astounding to me that so many have made a down vote of this video. I do understand it's old but, still, this is nature in all it's gory glory. Nature is cruel.

[@ragejinraver]

Because these brainwashed people think that nature is supposed to be like a Disney film

[@riyazpasha2648]

That's a beautiful video sir, poor birds trying to save the Falcons prey...

[@JCVdude]

Yes, thanks

[@N-1951]

The magpies we’re trying to steal the hawk’s dinner

[@andydowden8117]

One more thing to note .. falcons dispatch there quarry by snapping the neck as quick as possible because they can’t risk breaking there long flight feathers, hawks on the other hand have short wings designed for the rough and tumble on the floor and therefore much hardier than a falcon, they also hold there prey down and eat it alive unlike the falcon which will break the neck almost instantaneously.

[@capptain_crunch9544]

Maybe I'm just out of the loop when it comes to camera quality these days but damn thats one hell of a zoom...I kept expecting the resolution so suffer.

[@Mmoose74]

Starlings are invasive from Europe. Worst bird ever! I shed no tears over this video.

[@dotdenier]

I lived in Kelowna British Columbia for four years in the first year I had hardly seen any birds to tell you the truth. Sparrows and crows of course, few hawks and falcons. But when those starling came it was like an explosion of predatory populations. At first, I might’ve seen one or two eagles about every month same goes with hawks and Falcons. I would spend over 8 hours a week driving through the country mind you, but after those starlings showed up, in huge numbers… I have never seen more falcons,hawks, eagles and magpies. My theory is that I would see magpies more often while I drive because Starlin’s would become roadkill so often, but it’s my hope that because of all these starlings, that are moderately sized and less manoeuvrable than smaller songbirds that predatory birds have had an easier time taking them down. A bird that is more nutritionally substantial than a small songbird yet not as energy intensive as taking down a pigeon or seagull. I know it might upset people for me to say this, and I don’t blame them, but starlings aren’t going anywhere, they’re here to stay and at this point I think all we can do is hope that nature and our continents native species can withstand the uprise in starling numbers until other natural predatory species can rise to the occasion and acquire a taste for these beautiful yet destructive birds

[@parabola8933]

A hawk killed a dove outside my window one morning and tore off its feathers on its belling and ate it alive. That was quite shocking to see. I always imagined they kill them on impact or at least kill them before eating them. Such is nature.

[@nimaarezoomandi5325]

That s why falcons are more popular,they usualy catch their prey in a fair air battle,they kill their prey rapidly,hawks usualy catch their prey by ambushing ans surprise factor,and they may eat their preys alive

[@paulmahy]

The magpies aren't there to help, they want a cheap meal.

[@nancytaylor7509]

Amazing footage! Thanks for sharing a scene of nature up close.

[@dddd-ue4bk]

fuck you bastard

[@ramonedetroitguam6075]

that hawk looking over its shoulder like a gangster...

[@mauthemau6260]

It’s a falcon species called Merlin it is not a hawk.

[@josephking1947]

Merlin's my favourite little falcon, quite rare in the British isles you have to go to the Moors to see them starlings have become almost non existent as well.

[@DutyJames]

I know it's a shame right

[@josephking1947]

+Duty James Beyond sad...

[@minxella12]

We have plenty of Starlings we'll send them back!

[@henrry889]

not hawk, but falcon

[@Toeknees_idle]

once saw a redtailed hawk take down a magpie because they wouldn't stop pestering her, nature is metal!

[@htennek1]

Starlings are a HORRIBLE invasive species.. why would you want to save it? Blows my mind. Those dang magpie trying to get in on the falcon's hard work, LOL

[@austin1839]

Screw the Starling. They cause problems for other birds.

[@sashawalls9693]

Same with cats, people should keep them inside.

[@calibreman]

So do Magpies, they steal the eggs and young from the nests of small song birds etc.

[@eelsoirdor3573]

So do humans

[@bigglesbiggles4999]

You know nothing, humans are the ones destroying the planet and upsetting the balance of nature, starlings are great birds

[@sluvvr]

@@bigglesbiggles4999 i agree

[@BuzzLightyear66]

Stop calling it a hawk. Merlins are falcons

[@Sovanhe]

Amazing video

[@JCVdude]

Thanks!

[@SuperPutzPutz]

Like my sister said to me when we both were small, "You're not s'posed to do that!"

[@leroyrussell8766]

Watched a lot of videos of Hawks predating other birds. I don't think I have seen any bird fight for its life, like a Magpie.

[@haydenarchambault2927]

No offense, but this reminds me of a budget David Attenbourough(not sure of spelling) doc! 😀

[@Tylanrobert]

Great video, interesting hunting

[@JMac-fj1rg]

These videos have shown that smaller birds of prey lack the ability to quickly dispatch their prey. If their initial attack with their talons fails to kill their prey , there is often a prolonged struggle with the raptor continually tearing bits off the prey until the prey dies of shock.

[@ga8986]

Those starlings are too numerous. I put food in my feeder and the starlings and grackles show up in huge numbers and chase away all the songbirds and other favorable birds. The starlings spill all of the seed onto the ground while they eat only the good nuts and seeds from the feeder. The feeder will be emptied onto the ground in 10 minutes or less when these birds show up. I wish these European starlings had never been introduced to North America.

[@kpkp42]

Starlings are easy to shoot with BB gun and the other starlings get the message really fast

[@stephenspark9358]

well a starling is an invasive species

[@metrobar3367]

So are people

[@rodrigomontes9802]

metro bar so you. Good point

[@truthfacts5438]

Its a Merlin Falcon

[@edgararcega3046]

amazing. I only get cats fcking in my front yard. usually in the middle of the night. it's so annoying hearing the damn noises they make when they bone.

[@aleciathomas5703]

Magpies are corvids related to crows and ravens. As others have said here they wanted to eat the bird themselves now that the Merlin has done all the hard work

[@randomselect645]

Starlings invading species of birds , falcons are there to keep them in check

[@derekkrause9251]

I wish I could buy one of these Falcons for the starlings we have here. They destroy our purple martins nests and babies.

[@llii174]

Crossman air rifle, jus sayin'

[@derekkrause9251]

I have a shotgun I shoot starlings with all the time. Seems when I shoot one 3 more arrive.

[@gregcoogan8270]

the falcon will go after the purple martins too

[@charlies.5777]

Starlings love to build nests in dryer vents as Well - annoying AF!!

[@edwarddeitch8886]

Falcons, this one is a merlin, kill relatively quickly by severing the spinal cord.

[@janestake3405]

Starlings are great mimics. I had one as a pet. Something got him but i hope he did not die this way.

[@alasdairmackintosh]

Starlings are invasive so it's good to see the circle of life at work

[@billylee2390]

I found falcons break prey's neck first to kill quickly, whereas hawks mostly use only feet.

[@billwalbek1911]

Great video

[@JCVdude]

Thanks!

[@anthonywilliams8956]

I really enjoyed your video! I hate starlings!

[@JCVdude]

I felt sad for it, but that's nature

[@Glasgowurbanwildlife]

superb video ! well caught

[@DutyJames]

Brilliant Footage

[@grahamkirk5974]

About time you painted that fence!

[@austin2842]

My security camera has captured a merlin taking down sparrows, finches and even pigeons at extreme close range. The prey birds perch on an electrical wire inches from the camera. I only see the strike and then it's out of view. I didn't really want to watch this video, but I felt that i had to, to know how the merlin finishes the task.

[@Hi-wi6on]

I saw a pigeon trying to eat a chicken wing. The pigeon was prob a falcon in disguise

[@Turbo4Joe363]

Merlins are quite uncommon in the USA. Beautiful, small Falcons! Starlings.....300 million of those nasty flying rats! No need to feel sorry for a Starling. I shoot every Starling and English Sparrow that comes to my bird feeder. Legal... because both are invasive species that are wiping out our songbirds. Now I have bluebirds nesting in my yard every year.

[@ellobo1326]

I hate starlings. Wonderful video.

[@johnbarry5036]

for "nature at its rawest", theres a vid of a cheetah tearing the guts out of a live baby antelope, while the antelope is crying for help.. all in close up 4K no less. I couldn't finish that one, too much...

[@ZainorZafran]

Theres also baboon eating baby gazelle . I felt sick watching that video .

[@uvw-y8b]

merlin great fighter

[@UndefinedBailiwick]

I would've liked to see the Hawk deal a killing blow, but it appears that it crushed the starling to death with its talons.

[@Lnino-sd3kf]

Amazing footage, great documentary.

[@bobsingleton7942]

That's not a starling. It's a baby magpie

[@gerzon4192]

It hooked it. It breaks its wind pipe. It dies. We watch and marvel, mixed with a little indignation. But so are God's works, and they are good.

[@falconguy4768]

You must be up there by seattle

[@brodricksheffield]

Those Magpies separated the falcon or hawk from the food in the and I bet.

[@corpseorchids]

Im glad you mentioned the African plains , because this was right in your front yard not in the African plains where it really is the wild. In the city- if you want - you can interfere

[@hate202]

A adult Peregrine Falcon

[@stevehove2648]

Its a falcon, not a hawk. Amazing, very fast, agile hunters.

[@JCVdude]

Thanks for the info

[@stevehove2648]

Just have a look at videos of merlins hunting... breathtaking!

[@beersoflegends]

Knowing that your neighbor yard grass is fresher then yours

[@turaltagiyev6550]

Falcon or sparrowhawk?

[@JCVdude]

bird

[@TheJacksnipe]

There is a difference between Merlins from North America and Europe. European specimens hunt exclusively in open habitat like meadows and bogs, but never ever in a backyard. They avoid Human settlements like villages and cities.

[@andrewhansen4179]

In North America Merlins hunt wherever they can find a meal. I've seen them in all sorts of habitat, small cities, wooded areas and open plain country. But mostly they like more open spaces to catch their prey by surprise, speed and stealth. They are more likely to fly at or above the tops of the forest. Golf courses seem to offer attractive habitat for nesting Merlins...especially those courses with large, tall coniferous trees. You can sometimes hear Merlins before you see them by their very shrill cry, quite loud and high pitched. MErlins can sometimes be spotted by their very fast flying, usually faster than the American Kestrel. If you blink, you just might miss them go zipping by. Where I live, and in winter Merlins are attracted to small towns or cities....long after many bird species have migrated south....and where people have established bird feeding stations. Those bird feeders make the English sparrow and the European starling prime prey.

[@tanawashshahzad6380]

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[@Ratlins9]

Very good video.

[@JCVdude]

Thank you very much!

[@northernwarrior6319]

Animal's don't get their food prepped for them like we do,they have to do it themselves!!!!!!!!

[@northernwarrior6319]

@daAnder71 Could you be my teacher,I probably could learn how to become rich because of you!!!!!!😆😆😆😆😆

[@markbulgarin5805]

Wel if it wasn't bothered by the magpies the kill was much faster. Plus the magpies were hoping for a easy meal...

[@arthurlustig9212]

Starling's are a real pest.

[@arthurlustig9212]

​@Ivan They feed with the intent to create waste.

[@liasoetje2531]

I rescued a Starling from a Kestral.....no way was I going let a little animal die on my watch. I think people who can rescue a little animal from a horrible death but choose to do nothing lack humanity.

[@JCVdude]

it is hard to watch nature do what she has done for eons, there have always been predators and prey. The American Kestrel does what it is programed to do to survive. All predators do, mostly it is humans who hunt for sport.

[@tcwhite0104]

Magpies were there to take it..

[@jayjwill1978]

Man you can see it choking on its last few breaths....

[@marketsmoto3180]

why would you feel sorry for the wildebeest or zebra for getting eaten..... would you feel bad if the lion died from starvation???

[@rasb7761]

If you look at it I don't think that was an extremely brutal kill it was somewhat humane the falcon striked the neck of the starling a few times and it was dead way sooner then i expected !

[@josephking1947]

I wish I had Merlin's catching starlings on my lawn

[@JCVdude]

I felt bad for the starling....then go have some bacon and steak -

[@LG-nh4bs]

Damn he open up its windpipe

[@Gman6755]

I can't get past that awful looking fence. Please paint it!

[@michaelsmulkowski5088]

A Merlin is a poor man’s Falcon.

[@nimaarezoomandi5325]

Falcons are fast killers,this merlin is at the same size of a sparrowhawk,but the latter is a nadty slow killer causing slow painful death for his victims

[@unkameatgoodbar2315]

Falcon gotta eat too

[@HamoodiClash]

Magpies are Parasites wanted to feed on falcon’s prey.

[@louievelez5097]

Magpies hate hawks or any predatory bird they were defending the starling not knowingly they just wanted the hawk gone and it’s more of the starling and magpie have the same enemy

[@minxella12]

Magpies? Same with Crows and Ravens, they were there to steal not defend!