Proud Red-Tailed hawk struggles with a feisty crow.

[@junebugjohnson2295]

Hawk : that'll learn you and your friends to wake me up this early on a Saturday morning with all that damn noise and bird poop !!! Crow : let me go let me go , it wasn't me I tell ya it was Heckle & Jeckle they did it .

[@lediashields9611]

Rare, crows usually harass owls and hawks 1st time I've ever seen one taken

[@frankjohnson6342]

Crows are always messing with hawks and owls then one day they run into that one who isn’t having it.

[@darylkemp1257]

There even silly enough to try take hawk chicks from their nests then wonder why they end up as a pile of blooded bones and feathers

[@nenaj1]

@@darylkemp1257 who cares about hawk chicks

[@TheHOOfan1]

I saw a group of crows kill a baby robin as the robin parents could only fly around and do nothing. They didn't even eat it after killing it, just killed it to b assholes.

[@nordy259]

Crow needs some new friends. Those ones are useless

[@captauron4514]

This reminded me of the story of Bakari Henderson. His White friends watch him get killed by Serbians. Useless.

[@grunfalan]

@@captauron4514 well, Americans really shouldn't travel outside USA borders, because nobody likes them very much.

[@rb1179]

@@grunfalan It's only when the nobodys cry for help and Americans rush to their aid that the nobodys appreciate Americans. But Americans are weary of doing that and would just assume the nobodys take care of themselves and quit their whining.

[@grunfalan]

​@@rb1179 in reality, Americans never do that. They intervene only because of their interests (plundering), though it is usually wrapped into some "humanitarian" pretext. Then again, I know that American folks doesn't have much to say about anything, and that they are only unfortunate victims of their greedy elites, and the system. But you also can't blame average people around the world for not recognizing such details and therefore hating and despising Americans as a whole.

[@Chrisw678]

@@grunfalan WW1 and 2?

[@WaynesAdventure]

“I got you in a stranglehold baby”

[@tmscheum]

Redtail says, “ shhhhhh, calm down , it’ll all be over soon and then you won’t feel a thing.”

[@77Sunsetstrip]

Yeah, he says " say your Vespers boyo"...

[@ozymandiasdubois5074]

🥶 🌍

[@fredmckay8596]

The crow tapped out a few times but hawk didnt care at all

[@futtmill]

Even though red tails are much stronger than crows, this is a young red tail and this is probably the first crow he/she has killed and is still trying to figure out the best way to subdue the crow. I’m sure the crow didn’t last much longer though, red tails are just too powerful.

[@markuse3472]

I said the same thing. Well, almost. I was thinking the hawk looks like a first year on his own type.

[@eightinches6094]

@@markuse3472 ....if he's a young hawk then it just goes to show how strong those talons are, that crow wasn't going anywhere. And plus it's a good confidence builder for that young hunter, he needs that in the wild.

[@atravers349]

Definitely a young hawk. Their tails turn red their second year, and this one's is still brown.

[@casperbetz1949]

I don't see any "inexperience" there. That behavior is mostly innate anyway. For the hawk, as for any other bird of prey, it's "safety first" at the workplace, which does not mean to kill quickly but to keep the prey item at bay in such a manner that it can't do any harm, no matter how slow the death. With a crow, the most dangerous weapon is the bill and certainly not the feet (or wings). Hence the hawk goes for the throat/head and waits for the crow to lose strength so it can be safely plucked and eaten. If the hawk tried to begin sooner, it would risk losing balance and in the process losing its grip on the one weapon the crow has.

[@Dime_time333]

@Carlos Sotolongo I would deck you irl if I saw you shoot a hawk with an air rifle.

[@lexxstarr9700]

Crows are bunch of bullies until they mess with the wrong bird of prey and go down in defeat!

[@mowtech1]

Moving closer stopped the other crows mobbing the raptor.

[@SoLuVaBle299]

It’s equal parts fascinating and horrifying. Reminds me of the time I found two dragonflies flopping around on the ground at the beach. One was holding onto the other like a backpack… of death, cause it was munching on the back of the other dragonfly’s head while the other dragonfly tried to escape. After a little research, I learned this may have been two males in a territorial dispute. Dragonflies have always been really bad ass to me and I love learning new nature facts, but that… mm. It was definitely a little disturbing to go from “oh, maybe one is trying to mate with the other” to “nope this is active cannibalism and one of them is still very much alive.”

[@chassitykellum1278]

Nice story 👍.

[@aliubed3162]

Yeah love em helicopters 😂

[@jaknap1]

So what happened at the end? Did the hawk have a nice meal?

[@sallygomez8799]

Love how the other crows are trying to save him by dive bombing.

[@fleuger99]

Hardly helping, they were no where near the hawk. If they had struck the hawk he might have let go but not for some squawking.

[@makiabraa9285]

He protecc he atacc but most importantly he broke crows bacc

[@shaanlakhani8060]

Crow Talks trash Eagle: Am I joke to you? 🤣🤣🤣

[@eric15024]

I dont know why i thought the crows woulda had his back more

[@ellee2937]

Where’s the ending? Was it a successful catch or not? 🤔

[@edrominger6165]

Its fun to watch those Red Tailed Hawk dive bomb the patch of green grass that separates I-70 North and I-70 south and Ohio I'd saw it a ton of times while I'm driving on the interstate all of a sudden I'll see the red tailedhawks dive down and grab a field mice. When there's snow on the ground you'll see them dive bomb and just land right in the snow because they can hear the mouse under the snow and know exactly where it's at.

[@Party_Almsivi]

Good, the hawk seems to have won. Crows always start shit with hawks.

[@MyChannel-dr8em]

true I just saw 2 crows send away a red tailed hawk today. seems like the hawk didnt care to fight back. maybe it had just eaten a crow...

[@Party_Almsivi]

@Shay Ogun And crows are flying rats. They have it coming. Especially when they go out of their way to dive bomb a hawk that’s not even looking their way. #YesAllCrows #ToxicCrowsculinity

[@Party_Almsivi]

@Shay Ogun So I’m not being entirely, like, dead serious. I am aware crows are very intelligent. Rats are also decently/relatively intelligent. It’s not a completely un-apt comparison. But even then, there are a lot more crows than hawks, so just in terms of raw value based on scarcity and federal protection? The hawk wins. Immature...goodness...look I know it’s become the standard practice to treat everything like real life online, but I still remember when that was far from the default, and I still kinda operate that way, so... I guess I’m sorry for assuming that there was some mutual facetiousness going on. I like havin’ a giggle being flippant online after work sometimes, sue me.

[@cybergecko1]

Party almsivi has admitted to wanting to have fun online and according to the rules of the internet everyone should boo him

[@omgDavidGlasper]

bs hawks always bullying...they even try to kills cats and dogs. I hate hawks.

[@austin1839]

Once the hawk has the crow on its back the only thing left for the crow is to tell his buddies goodbye.

[@TheAssasin2525]

You mean like "Do you have any final words?"

[@monbreau7306]

It's crazy....crows are very intelligent and can have what appears to be a personality. Whereas the red-tailed hawk is just, kill, eat, kill, eat, kill eat. All business.

[@thomasjones36]

Yeah the crow mess with the wrong hawk😬

[@aliubed3162]

Hawk b looking like “Yeah Barry it’s all clear I don’t think I see any other predators approaching”

[@lastcommodore9651]

A moment that went viral in the local crow community.

[@lostbooks2918]

This seems uncommon and probably had you not intervened, these other crows would've saved it. But at least we get to witness

[@ericharris893]

Hawks prey on crows. A big hawk would annihilate a crow in a second. This is a baby hawk

[@JeremyThePlayer88]

It appears that the Red Tailed hawk won! Its always tough for any bird of prey to get a clever crow! Normally Red Tailed hawks go for mammals and rodents. Something like this isn't a common occurrence, that's for sure!

[@tahjholiday5224]

Yeah we usually don't see this in central park.

[@skittleseer1]

Too small to be a red tailed hawk. Possibly a Cooper’s hawk.

[@JeremyThePlayer88]

Nope, its definitely a Red Tailed Hawk, and a juvenile to be exact! Its got brown-striped tail feathers. A Cooper's Hawk only has grey striped feathers, and they aren't vertical stripes like this hawk has!

[@princeel7221]

Well red tail hawks are a pest to crows habitat when it comes to nesting. They are rivals. Crows usually provoke red tails around nesting/mating time if they spot them too close to home. Even though 9/10 they are walking away dead. Unless more hang on a red tail and he surrenders, flying away.

[@henthust9784]

Yes, but a Chanting Goshawk does occasionally go for crows, with ease.

[@Venus_Isle]

Great footage. Although I didn't see too much struggling...

[@MustWatchTV]

Why the crows want come together and peck the hawk head or something?

[@henthust9784]

Simple answer, like all mob attackers, they are just not that brave.

[@machinetaker]

“Go ahead, keep messing with me...”

[@Salem-TC]

See all the fuss the other Crows are doing...

[@MrWhitelightning73]

I found a pile of dove feathers in the back yard. Now I think I know what got it. As long as it leaves my Min Pin alone, it will continue to exist 😎

[@lostbooks2918]

That or a stray cat

[@shackakil3085]

Great Video!!!! Love Hawks

[@rrmerlin3402]

There is a reason Redtails are the most numerous hawk in America.......They catch everything ! I watched one come out of a stoop to snatch a Killdeer off the ground.

[@TheSanityInspector]

You are fortunate to see this natural wonder!

[@dancenman6687]

1:59 This Is What Happens When You mess with The Wrong Bird

[@golfandhike5598]

Great video !

[@guysolis5843]

Not sure why the Red Tailed Hawk is called "Proud". The bird made a kill and now he wants to eat the thing. When he spreads his wings like that it's called mantling. He's hiding his kill.. I'm a Falconer and I had my Red Tailed Hawk in my backyard on a perch and Crows gathered in the tree and they got loud. 2 big boss man Crows dropped down to harass my bird and he sat there and when one got close enough he grabbed it and promptly began plucking it's feathers in preparation of a nice meal. The sky went crazy with screaming Crows. That day I bought materials to build what's called an open air mews which is just a pen outside my bird can safely sun in...

[@afterhoursafv5366]

They were a pair of red tail hawks today being harassed by crows in my neighbors yard. The red tailed hawk‘s were making cries very loudly for about 15 minutes and one of the red tailed hawks flew away with something in his talons with the crows following. Do you think the crows were hurting the Hawk? Or were the Hawks vocalizing to protect themselves? The other hawk stayed so maybe they have a nest. The tree is very tall.

[@BESTON.A10]

Who won the last !

[@jcbbb]

how rich are you

[@NsyShwl]

This video and setting reminds me of when I saw you hawk try to pick up a cat by the tail only to get attacked and ripped apart by the rest of its cat buddies.. it's not pretty to see but it sure is interesting..

[@christophersummers1939]

now that's a murder of crows i'm into

[@dhiradjsing4112]

Because of you the crows mates could not help him.

[@DEVILFISH1122]

I tell yea that’s natural but I’d become the crows best friend

[@grantp4022]

A hawk's talons have squeezing force of 200 PSI, an eagles is 3x that at 600 PSI. Just a matter of time til this hawk kills this crow. Depends where he grabs it.

[@willieboy8798]

the crow has a strong body and it is harder to sqweeze the birds lungs ....that is it!

[@mictwisted65]

personally i don't like crows. However if you would have stayed back further that hawk would have lost that fight. the others would have harassed him the whole time

[@theconspiracyfactualist.144]

Sorry,but you are incorrect. The crows only dive etc. No crow will openly stand and fight a red tail.

[@tomlorenzen4062]

Not

[@Kelly-th7ym]

mictwisted65 is right - crows dive bomb predators and ravens shew them away. You were too close!

[@iz5808]

@@theconspiracyfactualist.144 do you observe them long enough to conclude it that way? Because I've seen something disproving your statement. They will try to peck it, pull for the tail, circle around it to make it anxious. And believe me that works just fine against such predators. Well, not trying to grind an axe here, but not helping a crow which is culturally closer to a human, and even observing its demise just for content is fucked up thing according to my moral. But whatever

[@theconspiracyfactualist.144]

@@iz5808 It's called nature,which we fuck with at our peril. Falconer for thirty years and still hunting today.

[@Cindy-lr6su]

What a gangster paradise

[@HanginInSF]

Hawks can't fly through my neighborhood without getting mobbed by angry crows. But the crows stay away from the red tail hawks and golden eagles.

[@English_MoFo]

I'm definitely breaking that up.

[@wxman2003]

Look who's eating crow.

[@jerryeinstandig7996]

none of those loudmouth crows were brave enough to mob the hawk and harass it.

[@adansfamily3774]

Our maro

[@jamesmullins2470]

Damn nature you scary

[@mercedesclk320]

Crows and magpies are predators to all small song birds !!! .we need more hawks evening up the numbers !!!

[@princeel7221]

True. Crows and Red tails are natural rivals/enemies though. This is common, just rare to spot in most cases. In some cases, Red tails sometimes kills crows to send a message to other cries nearby, not to eat. They prefer to eat their young. But when crows actually hang up on one red tail, the red tail surrenders.

[@mercedesclk320]

@@princeel7221 We don't have red tailed hawks in England UK .Just sparrowhawks etc .

[@colinprowe]

@@mercedesclk320 you should take a look in Bucks, and Northhants. The skies are full of them👍

[@kerrygatling663]

First i ever seen a red tail take down a crow😟

[@Encourageable]

Two times in the last year I’ve seen a hawk catch a crow which surprised me cause the crow is not much smaller than the hawk.

[@MichelleMCTran]

Crows and hawks are enemies. Because the crows are territorial

[@ridesmule2824]

Thats like saying that a coyote struggles with a feisty rabbit.

[@billym251]

That's Life !!!

[@ellee2937]

First time i saw a hawk making a meal out of a crow 😳 usually i just see crows bullying smaller birds & stealing their food 😝

[@trippcox2641]

I've seen crows go straight medieval on smaller birds soI guess sometimes it's just not your day

[@timboslice4717]

Corvids squawking as one is captured by the induced raptor's rapture .

[@mustang7603]

Wow I figured the other crows would help him out

[@daniel6771]

Dam why the crow homies not helping him?

[@bobmalack481]

Any bird that is black, and is almost always an invasive specis/ scorge, Crows, Grackles, Starlings, needs to be sent back to Europe or Africa, does this sound familiar?..Robert at 66.

[@cindyjohnson6303]

Paybacks are *ell. I have seen crows drive the hawks from the area we live in.

[@wintermoon6978]

I wonder why the other crows didn’t dive bomb the hawk. I always see tiny blackbirds ganging up on crows that land in their trees. The crows try to act tough and switch branches like those little birds are just a nuisance, but they end up flying away when they get tiny bird after tiny bird diving into them. I would have thought the crows would do the same instead of just keeping their distance and hollering. Anyway, I like crows and I think they’ve been represented badly in cartoons and stories, making kids grow up thinking they’re evil or something. I’ve never thought they were evil. Now maybe I’m thinking they’re just a bit cowardly.

[@hmoobdude391]

I don’t consider that struggling. It’s in complete control

[@Fuzzball777]

Where are his bro crows? Just leaving there family to get eaten

[@Goo_Gle.]

Don’t worry it’s just Tobias

[@marcdurso1159]

Well, we all gotta eat a little crow sooner or later...

[@marklydon435]

Not much of a struggle, just a waiting game. Then lunch.

[@myvenusheeler]

Hopefully the Hawk got to literally eat Crow on that winters day.

[@phillylifer]

Dudes friends are scared

[@1234fon]

Охотнику респект!

[@ljuchiha8428]

U should’ve just go home and let the Crows save their friend

[@oreokingwarrior_official7478]

W

[@mikekautz5953]

I see no struggle here

[@charlessmith3758]

In crow heaven there are endless nuts, seeds, grapes and stuff. If you don't worship crow Jesus who died for the crows. Then it's crow hell for them. True story just like another story we tell ourselves because we're really dumb.

[@abcloft302]

😮

[@cj-bd3ql]

No it's not fascinating it's kind of brutal and toxicated

[@victorpetchenev4119]

Я бы спросил у ястреба "Неужели это вкусно?!"

[@ViralTuber]

I wonder what would've happened had you not interfered. Were you ever able to teabag the Hawk? You only needed two more steps to reach your goal.

[@Encourageable]

He did not interfere.

[@ViralTuber]

@@Encourageable The crows made several aggressive passes at the hawk early in the video, though in the footage we see they were always concerned about the human standing nearby, and moving closer. The closer the human moved in, the less the crows dared to defend their buddy. Without the human moving in close, the crows would have continued, and in fact would likely have escalated their aggressiveness, the way animals that rally against a predator typically do. They have to "work up to it". Even mighty African water buffalo, have to get "worked up" before they start becoming earnestly assertive toward a predator, sometimes eventually saving their buddy from the certain-death clutches of a lion pride. It's absolutely 100% within the normal and natural behavior of a murder of crows (←exceptionally smart and calculating birds) to rally against a predator that's attacking one of their own. We'll never know just how far this murder of crows would have gone in violently pestering the hawk, ...because the human showed up and stopped their defensive group counterattack completely.

[@preyor72]

I disagree, the cameraman wasn’t close and did not intentionally interfere. He zoomed in from a distance. The crows are cowards and only pick on birds smaller than them or any animals they think they can bully. They’re very smart until they’re not. And this one was not.

[@Prov26-11]

Hawk wins! Crows are obnoxious

[@GuadalupeValadez]

YOU FIDO DID YOUR BORING PIECE , now was time to SCARE AWAY THAT WINGED CARNIVORE , any other animal 🦒 would’ve been more helping hand than you , ⛓🧟‍♂️🧟🧟‍♂️🧛🏿‍♀️⛓

[@gladegoodrich2297]

Didn't think anything would eat a crow.

[@princeel7221]

These are natural rivals. But it takes more than one crow to take a red tail down. Crows work like herds, so red tails usually kills one to send messages to other nearby crows. Crows fear a one on one fight, or a red tail that’s very savage lol. Crows act aggressive to red tails in most cases, because they protect their young. As red tails prefer the eggs or baby birds than an adult crow. As it’s an easier meal. That’s why crows go crazy when they see a red tail.

[@jonathanbarnes3061]

Once you take nuptials the taste becomes acquired.

[@ernestbateman8485]

I thought people were the Only ones "To have to eat CROW" (old saying)

[@montagusappling3076]

As much malarkey as those crows put up they should just take it on the chin an say bye...

[@sharkchaparral4439]

They are actually big fraidy cats❗ they will clamour and scream; but will not attempt a rescue❗

[@hectorkuchlegomez8066]

Yo creo que salvar una vida es lo más gratificante para un ser humano, la naturaleza no te puso ahí para que filmarás morbosamete. Entonces... Simplemente no hubieras grabado.

[@lordhung7013]

I loved watching that crow die!😄 Damn, nature be scary, but fun! Put some more kill videos PLEASE!,?

[@Hoop4u209]

Sociopath

[@NiCola-Rus]

Ну и качество.. на моторолу снимал чтоли.

[@markstaddon4993]

The filmer influenced the situation ,got to close .

[@davidmellish3295]

That situation happened, it made no difference if someone filmed it up close or not,it's nature and how on earth did someone filming it have any influence?

[@258mr]

@@davidmellish3295 maybe the others crows are afraid of the man , and would harass the hawk if they were Alone

[@NA-dh3dn]

Looks like, if Derick Chauven & George Floyd reincarnated as fowls.

[@ThreePhaseHigh]

This is one time I would have stepped in and help the crow

[@SuaSponte75]

The Red Rail Hawk is the real bird of U.S.A., not the bald eagle

[@travisraulston2187]

Blue jay would give hawk tough fight

[@Imlookingover007]

Pay back.

[@nathanhale5455]

I know it's nature & all that but, if I'm behind the lense that day, the hawk would have had to get brunch somewhere else.

[@luminarymane4970]

And risk jail

[@jaffarimike9100]

Need action not noise.

[@manganjames1]

Kudos for not intervening...nature got to happen

[@mikimiki3389]

There's an omen behind this scene...It means, this crow was used to a bad cause.. And that's the end of of that ordeal. Hawk was meant for the good and now somebody is spell free.(if you can believe that)

[@Encourageable]

No, it’s just predator and prey. Animals have no spirit - only humans.