Fun fact, this pigeon and its mate has been harassing these falcons for a while and in fact the pigeon survive thisâŠand tried again. And again. I donât know how or why theyâre still alive.
My theory is that the peregrine set home into a former dove nest, and didn't care about eliminating the scent. So doves still see as being part of their "local map".
We had the same thing, with a small falcon setting nest into a dove area until doves started returning. But for my local bird, doves came all at once and tried to set in.
I watch Anton Petrov on YT and he posted recently a video about a study of bird intelligence and in the thumbnail he had a picture of pigeons (not doves) and a text "they are intelligent" (or something similar) with an arrow to a pigeon looking absolutely derp. But I mean, they always look derp. Someone should sent this video to him, lol.
Then the pigeon is flapping away and the falcon is pinning it and just looking at it like "Oh yeah motherfucker? You like this box do you motherfucker?"
At least the babies will have lots of feathers to play with when they hatch. Iâm surprised so many birds just lay their eggs on rocks. No nest for either of these bird species which is wild to me. Those feathers he just plucked would be a cozy bed.
Bro just makes him hang there while he just keeps yanking at his feathers, and looks so goddamn proud the whole time.
"You come into my house? Chomp disrespecting my eggs?!? Chomp chomp You think you're some tough guy, huh? Chomp HEY WHERE THE FUCK YOU GOIN IM NOT DONE BEATING YOUR ASS"
Unless this happened twice, this footage is a couple years old and is the last encounter from a series of increasingly violent dove visits. The doves did get beat up and come back several times lol, the falcon was pretty patient all things considered
Probably priorities. Killing the pigeons would either attract scavengers and end up leading them to the eggs, or it would leave the eggs undefended for too long.
For anyone wondering, this is Saint-Symphorien Church in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, part of a project run by an organisation called Faucons PĂšlerins D'Illkirch.
What I took from this is that good folk at a French church and the specialist organisation have invested time and money in providing a perfect nesting site for a magnificent raptor. We have similar nesting sites on our churches and cathedrals. (I'm a Brit.) All good stuff!
They're actually very smart, which is why humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago up until 100 years ago. Then we invented electricity and telephone lines and suddenly they were useless so we dumped millions of birds who had lived in houses into the wild.Â
They're dumb in wild the same way that the average person would be dumb if you dumped them alone into Siberia or the Amazon with just their clothes.Â
We did not domesticate doves 10,000 years ago, the first bird to be domesticated was the chicken and that was around 7,000 years ago. We didn't get around to doves until much later. Doves were rarely actually used for delivering messages, most were delivered by riders and other couriers. The past wasn't bloody game of thrones with a network of messenger birds. The idea that all modern doves are feral former domesticated species is utter nonsense.
But all of that is irrelevant anyway, because the bird depicted here is very clearly a wood pigeon, which were never domesticated widely and really are quite thick.
When you google "when did we first domesticate pigeons" guess what the idiotic AI says? 10,000 years ago. Yet if you dig into any of the sites, they all specifically talk about a hieroglyphic tablet that MIGHT have depicted a pigeon... As a food source.
Now I'll give you 3 guesses where this commentor got their "information".
Yeah the more I think on it the more I'm like, it's not like millions of us being dumped in Siberia where a good chunk will die from exposure. It's like us being dumped in an unknown area where there enough food if you go looking, but also unknown predators and certainty of higher illness/infection. Plus more kids but limited risk of childbirth death.
We would, overall, manage. Some would die. But not enough for every single one of us to start picking out predators from sight and acting accordingly, especially if we are replacing our kids/generations too quickly to really pass on information.
You do have to consider tho that there is a hell of a lot more generations of pigeons in a 100 years then there are human generations.
I have no clue what number to think about but if you would tell me a 100 years of pigeon generations are equivalent to a millenial of human generations i would not be surprised.
And then there are pigs that are able to turn into wild hogs in their own lifetime.
They've also been given awesomely high structures and cables to perch on. They thrive in dense cities where very few predators can make them food. Here, they only have to look out for other birds. I imagine some go a whole lifetime without seeing a hawk or falcon.
At my house during molting season this year there was a juvenile cardinal with zero tail feathers whatsoever. He was fine. He flew relatively normally and hung around long enough for me to watch them mostly grow back
A dove without tail feathers can probably still fly, but they wonât have nearly as much control. If this dove survived the encounter with just some feathers getting plucked, they probably still had a rough few weeks ahead of them.
Iâm sure, and I imagine having a living feather forcibly plucked leaves a wound and getting many plucked probably leaves the bird prone to infection and maybe even dehydration. Just wanted to say that at least some birds can definitely fly without tail feathers
In defense of the pigeon, it likely never has seen a falcon up close before. It would have likely recognized a falcon in flight and hauled ass, but up close and sitting, the pigeon had no idea who this is.
Also, can we also talk about how the falcon has just as little idea how to handle the situation? Preparing the meal by plucking before it's even seriously injured?
Neither of them were firing on all cylinders, but I'm not mad, what we got was as hilarious as it was metal đ
Falcons have sharp teeth and talons, but they rely on knocking their prey out of the air to stun/kill. They could kill an animal up close, but it's a slow process. It's basically the difference between firing an arrow with a bow versus stabbing something with an arrow up close.
The plucking of the tail feathers was the falcon prepping to eat the pigeon alive so I was relieved to see it escape!
I donât know if it was a translation error or a brain fart, but imagining a falcon with âsharp teethâ as in your first sentence is funny and a little scary. Grrr, Iâm a falcon!
That and can't fly anymore (at least not properly) and probably had some other damage from hanging down in this weird position and trying to escape, like maybe a strained ankle or so.
they can but take a very long time to do so. However, those wings are critical to its ability to fly, and we've seen how bright it was with working tailfeathers.
they probably would? but it can take a while for them to grow back enough to allow proper flight and such. and its unlikely that the bird would survive long enough for them to grow back entirely :(
My cockatiel had all of his tail feathers ripped out while being rescued from a wildfire. He adapted immediately and they grew back within a few months.
Single ones, sure. But in the video it looks like he rips off like half of them. Like one side is gone. Can they really still fly without problems then?!
Yes they generally donât NEED their tail feathers to fly. They really need their wing feathers though. Iâve seen adult mourning doves with no tail, and Iâve heard (but have not confirmed) that actually the tail feathers will come out more easily than others, to help with escaping a predator!
Iâve been volunteering to rescue window strike birds & bring them to a wildlife rehabilitator for ~10 years and they donât sweat it if a bird has lost some tail feathers (but, depends on how many & if itâs a long-distance migrant & how they do with test flights).
That's not the reason it's plucking at all. Plucking from some random spot on the back will do nothing to stop the pigeon from flying away.
What's happening here is the falcon is pretty much just as bamboozled as the pigeon and doesn't react properly to the situation at hand.
Usually the flow chart goes find prey - calculate trajectories - divebomb - either kill or stun + catastrophically injure with falcon punch/kick - grab dead or mortally injured prey - pluck inedible feathers - eat/transport to eating spot
Since the falcon had already grabbed the pigeon, he just followed the flowchart from there instead of killing it as appropriate and started plucking, not taking into account the pigeon was ver much alive, not severely injured if at all, not stunned and perfectly able to fly away
Mhm I did read that some falcons will pluck the tail and wing feathers to disable smaller birds and for easier eating , I personally think it's doing both
We can see very well where and what kind of feathers it plucks. It's from the back and never the big complex feathers crucial to flying found on wing and tailfan
No unfortunately. The eggs were not fertilised. She had raised some chicks earlier but had been having unfertilised eggs for years since she was paired with Lucky (her partner at the time this video was recorded). Local birders suspected that Lucky was infertile. But then someone mentioned that no one had ever seen them mating, nor had it been heard (peregrines are loud when they do the thing). So a wild guess was that maybe Lucky wasnât infertile but rather didnât know how to/didnât want to mate. After Valentine disappeared, there were several females trying to take over the territory. Lucky was eventually seen mating with a juvenile female named Juju on the camera. Sadly Juju was very soon chased away by another juvenile female named Dragonia and Lucky disappeared before the next breeding season came.
"so there I was, just minding the eggs and this pigeon strolls right in like they owned the place!"
"What?"
"Yeah, just started to make themselves comfortable and tried to get me out of the way, well.... Let's just say they won't be coming round much any more".
-the falcon discussing the incident with their significant other, probably
I'm not sure pigeons recognize predator birds the way we do; I bet this pigeon would've correctly known to stay away if they saw the shape of the falcon in flight, but close up and sitting it has no clue
Girlypop looked at that dove like "Are you blind or stupid?". On another note watching how much of the feathers can be torn off with that beak gave me chills.
https://preview.redd.it/0jg9pbmq859g1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6894ac2796bfa91ffb6f4d19143571b3c68ef3f5
I have this magnet on my fridge đ
Fuck, I need this as a magnet on my fridge đ
Perfect use of this image
This really puts the "intelligence" in the word "dove".
I don't understand how pigeons can be so smart and so dumb at the same time.
The results of domestication.
Wood pigeons aren't domesticated. They're often just the biggest birds in the company they keep, so they become rude bullies with no fear.
And the word 'food' in the word 'mouth'
I was thinking food delivery
Dove Dash.
It's not delivery, it's PiGiorno
My brain refuses to process this without the capital G.
Fixed it, thanks for pointing it out lol I knew it looked wrong
Fun fact, this pigeon and its mate has been harassing these falcons for a while and in fact the pigeon survive thisâŠand tried again. And again. I donât know how or why theyâre still alive.
Yes at first the falcon is like... bitch we've been over this!
These wood pigeons do that a lot. Surprisingly, some falcons seem to be afraid of them lol
Even that Hawk needs a moment for processing, like
"Wait, is she stupid or am I?!"
That's a falcon.Â
Which makes it even worse, because they target birds.
Oh so itâs more like âwait, I donât remember ordering deliveryâ.
It was when the pigeon pecked near her and the eggs that she had enough. Holding it over the side plucking feathers until it got away
Sometimes you gotta snatch a weave to let somebody know you mean buisness
some hawks also target birds (sparrow hawk, goshawk)
Yeah but peregrines are THE pigeon assassin.
My theory is that the peregrine set home into a former dove nest, and didn't care about eliminating the scent. So doves still see as being part of their "local map".
We had the same thing, with a small falcon setting nest into a dove area until doves started returning. But for my local bird, doves came all at once and tried to set in.
I watch Anton Petrov on YT and he posted recently a video about a study of bird intelligence and in the thumbnail he had a picture of pigeons (not doves) and a text "they are intelligent" (or something similar) with an arrow to a pigeon looking absolutely derp. But I mean, they always look derp. Someone should sent this video to him, lol.
The hawk even gives the dove a look as if to say, "don't be this dumb, dude."
*Falcon (Peregrine)
It looked so gobsmacked for real! Turns out there is such a thing as a free lunch. đ€Ł
"Uh don't I eat you?"
"hold up, I didn't order from door dash"
Dove Dash.
So perfect a fit between woe and wit
Woe onto ye who brings misidentification to the bird page đ€
Jackdaws vs crows all over again
Hereâs the thingâŠ
Definitely the "are you fucking stupid? I could kill you" look.
âHello, itâs pigeon DoorDashâŠâ
*Nestdash
One way to get out of a dangerous situation is to bamboozle your attacker with utter stupidity or weirdness.
"dance off, bro, you and me"
Then the pigeon is flapping away and the falcon is pinning it and just looking at it like "Oh yeah motherfucker? You like this box do you motherfucker?"
<pluck> He loves me <pluck> He loves me not <pluck> He loves me <pluck> He loves me not <pluck> He lo... Oi, come back you bastard!
Pepé Le Peregrine
Falcon's partner returns to nest - "You would not believe what happened when you were out!"
At least the babies will have lots of feathers to play with when they hatch. Iâm surprised so many birds just lay their eggs on rocks. No nest for either of these bird species which is wild to me. Those feathers he just plucked would be a cozy bed.
Gobsmacked hawk spanks stupid pigeon
not to be pedantic but that is very much a falcon and not a hawk
and the dove is a woodpigeon
https://preview.redd.it/dv16efh6s49g1.jpeg?width=247&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8f4eeda1516d120ab7aaadfa2155ee7ebc71624
So cute
So cheap
happy cake day!
Doves and Pigeons are the same thing, scientifically there's no difference.
Also that's a great price, does it include shipping?
Here's the thing...
In my language, Reddit translates both words as "faucon," so it appears as "it is indeed a falcon and not a falcon."
Love that. đ
At risk of being called out as a snob though, if we all used Latin names it would be "it is indeed a Falco and not an Accipitridae", just saying.
Like it totally could have been willing to be chill if it werenât for the dovesâ poking around.
I like how even other animals have a âWTF???â look.
This has to be the greatest stupid dove nest ever recorded.
It's fucking hilarious.
Conversation went like this:
Bro just makes him hang there while he just keeps yanking at his feathers, and looks so goddamn proud the whole time.
"You come into my house? Chomp disrespecting my eggs?!? Chomp chomp You think you're some tough guy, huh? Chomp HEY WHERE THE FUCK YOU GOIN IM NOT DONE BEATING YOUR ASS"
I was expecting more of Batman monologue
Awww hey girl, youâre a mom too?! Iâm expecting, letâs be roomies. Iâll just set up right next to you.
I was really hoping it would hop back up to the edge again at the very end.
Unless this happened twice, this footage is a couple years old and is the last encounter from a series of increasingly violent dove visits. The doves did get beat up and come back several times lol, the falcon was pretty patient all things considered
Was probably more interested in protecting her eggs, than hurt the doves.
You'd think they'd get the hint after a while though lol
That would have been crazy
âMan, that was close! Hey, what a nice ledge to recover on!â
Thereâs an entire series of this. The pigeon and its mate keep coming back and for some reason the falcon and its mate keep not killing them.
Probably priorities. Killing the pigeons would either attract scavengers and end up leading them to the eggs, or it would leave the eggs undefended for too long.
The owl one is pretty great too
The one where dad comes back, says "nah I'm not dealing with this", throws in a dead mouse, and leaves
Food home delivery
Just occupy a prime spot in the city and your food will deliver itself!
If you build it they will come
DoveDash
For anyone wondering, this is Saint-Symphorien Church in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, part of a project run by an organisation called Faucons PĂšlerins D'Illkirch.
Forcément un pigeon aussi con fallait qu'il soit de chez nous.
What I took from this is that good folk at a French church and the specialist organisation have invested time and money in providing a perfect nesting site for a magnificent raptor. We have similar nesting sites on our churches and cathedrals. (I'm a Brit.) All good stuff!
Some peregrine falcon couples have been nesting in the Houses of Parliament for over a decade.
Is this pigeon exceptionally stupid or all they all this dumb?
Some are more adapted than others. This one is adapted to serve as food
Was it even eaten in that case?
In this? Probably not by that falcon..
But it's really just a matter of time, isn't it, lmao.
Not sure what's wrong with this one but I highly recommend this video if you wanna see what kind of cool stuff pigeons can actually be capable of
They're actually very smart, which is why humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago up until 100 years ago. Then we invented electricity and telephone lines and suddenly they were useless so we dumped millions of birds who had lived in houses into the wild.Â
They're dumb in wild the same way that the average person would be dumb if you dumped them alone into Siberia or the Amazon with just their clothes.Â
Literally nothing you've written here is true.
We did not domesticate doves 10,000 years ago, the first bird to be domesticated was the chicken and that was around 7,000 years ago. We didn't get around to doves until much later. Doves were rarely actually used for delivering messages, most were delivered by riders and other couriers. The past wasn't bloody game of thrones with a network of messenger birds. The idea that all modern doves are feral former domesticated species is utter nonsense.
But all of that is irrelevant anyway, because the bird depicted here is very clearly a wood pigeon, which were never domesticated widely and really are quite thick.
You know what?
When you google "when did we first domesticate pigeons" guess what the idiotic AI says? 10,000 years ago. Yet if you dig into any of the sites, they all specifically talk about a hieroglyphic tablet that MIGHT have depicted a pigeon... As a food source.
Now I'll give you 3 guesses where this commentor got their "information".
quick, build 10 more datacenters!
you might want to post that guy's comment in r/confidentlyincorrect
It's a wood pigeon. They've never been domesticated as far as I know.
Yes but also I do wonder why 100 years later some of them haven't learnt what predators are. Suppose natural selection is slow.
100 isn't really thay long of a time in the grand scheme of things. And yeah NS is slow.
Yeah the more I think on it the more I'm like, it's not like millions of us being dumped in Siberia where a good chunk will die from exposure. It's like us being dumped in an unknown area where there enough food if you go looking, but also unknown predators and certainty of higher illness/infection. Plus more kids but limited risk of childbirth death.
We would, overall, manage. Some would die. But not enough for every single one of us to start picking out predators from sight and acting accordingly, especially if we are replacing our kids/generations too quickly to really pass on information.
Survival of the good enough!
Technically this is all that evolution is. Good enough to survive in the environment.
But people saw "fittest" and thought it meant muscles and big brain and think it's some kind of divine judgement of a person's worth.
You do have to consider tho that there is a hell of a lot more generations of pigeons in a 100 years then there are human generations.
I have no clue what number to think about but if you would tell me a 100 years of pigeon generations are equivalent to a millenial of human generations i would not be surprised.
And then there are pigs that are able to turn into wild hogs in their own lifetime.
Itâs not like they were just inside houses when they were domesticated. They were flying the distances and would see the predators on the journeysÂ
They've also been given awesomely high structures and cables to perch on. They thrive in dense cities where very few predators can make them food. Here, they only have to look out for other birds. I imagine some go a whole lifetime without seeing a hawk or falcon.
Dude is living in his medieval fantasy fan-fiction.
Agree overall, but the pigeon in THIS video is a european wood pigeon - a wild animal
Holy fuck, people really just be saying anything on the internet
The lion the witch and the audacity of this bitch
Awesome footage
I was waiting for the half naked dove to come back and try again at the end.
Half their tail feathers are gone, the bird is not gonna fly for a long time (if the falcon didn't kill it outright, that is).
At my house during molting season this year there was a juvenile cardinal with zero tail feathers whatsoever. He was fine. He flew relatively normally and hung around long enough for me to watch them mostly grow back
A dove without tail feathers can probably still fly, but they wonât have nearly as much control. If this dove survived the encounter with just some feathers getting plucked, they probably still had a rough few weeks ahead of them.
Iâm sure, and I imagine having a living feather forcibly plucked leaves a wound and getting many plucked probably leaves the bird prone to infection and maybe even dehydration. Just wanted to say that at least some birds can definitely fly without tail feathers
It's genius
It's the first time for me when it comes to the footage from the inside. I've only seen the one from the exterior.
In defense of the pigeon, it likely never has seen a falcon up close before. It would have likely recognized a falcon in flight and hauled ass, but up close and sitting, the pigeon had no idea who this is.
Also, can we also talk about how the falcon has just as little idea how to handle the situation? Preparing the meal by plucking before it's even seriously injured?
Neither of them were firing on all cylinders, but I'm not mad, what we got was as hilarious as it was metal đ
The falcon has baby brain, not thinking clearly.
You could say she was nestingâŠ
Falcons have sharp teeth and talons, but they rely on knocking their prey out of the air to stun/kill. They could kill an animal up close, but it's a slow process. It's basically the difference between firing an arrow with a bow versus stabbing something with an arrow up close.
The plucking of the tail feathers was the falcon prepping to eat the pigeon alive so I was relieved to see it escape!
I donât know if it was a translation error or a brain fart, but imagining a falcon with âsharp teethâ as in your first sentence is funny and a little scary. Grrr, Iâm a falcon!
The falcon was like âmaybe it will just leaveâ until the pigeon touched it then it was on
That's crazy, especially how she's plucking away its feathers so it can't fly away ...
Seems like they still got away in the end when the falcon loosens their grip for a split second.
Exceptionally dumb and lucky.
With that much damange and feathers lost, I assume it wouldn've been better for the pidgeon to die a quick death...
Probably a bad infection from the puncture wounds yeah
That and can't fly anymore (at least not properly) and probably had some other damage from hanging down in this weird position and trying to escape, like maybe a strained ankle or so.
Would the feathers grow back? I know nothing about birds.
they can but take a very long time to do so. However, those wings are critical to its ability to fly, and we've seen how bright it was with working tailfeathers.
they probably would? but it can take a while for them to grow back enough to allow proper flight and such. and its unlikely that the bird would survive long enough for them to grow back entirely :(
My cockatiel had all of his tail feathers ripped out while being rescued from a wildfire. He adapted immediately and they grew back within a few months.
Itâs my understanding that a lot of birds can lose tail feathers and still fly well enough!
Single ones, sure. But in the video it looks like he rips off like half of them. Like one side is gone. Can they really still fly without problems then?!
Yes they generally donât NEED their tail feathers to fly. They really need their wing feathers though. Iâve seen adult mourning doves with no tail, and Iâve heard (but have not confirmed) that actually the tail feathers will come out more easily than others, to help with escaping a predator!
Iâve been volunteering to rescue window strike birds & bring them to a wildlife rehabilitator for ~10 years and they donât sweat it if a bird has lost some tail feathers (but, depends on how many & if itâs a long-distance migrant & how they do with test flights).
That's not the reason it's plucking at all. Plucking from some random spot on the back will do nothing to stop the pigeon from flying away.
What's happening here is the falcon is pretty much just as bamboozled as the pigeon and doesn't react properly to the situation at hand.
Usually the flow chart goes find prey - calculate trajectories - divebomb - either kill or stun + catastrophically injure with falcon punch/kick - grab dead or mortally injured prey - pluck inedible feathers - eat/transport to eating spot
Since the falcon had already grabbed the pigeon, he just followed the flowchart from there instead of killing it as appropriate and started plucking, not taking into account the pigeon was ver much alive, not severely injured if at all, not stunned and perfectly able to fly away
Mhm I did read that some falcons will pluck the tail and wing feathers to disable smaller birds and for easier eating , I personally think it's doing both
We can see very well where and what kind of feathers it plucks. It's from the back and never the big complex feathers crucial to flying found on wing and tailfan
I donât think it understands the intricacies of flight.. Itâs just trying to eat it but thereâs a lot of the way
it's a bird but it doesn't understand the intricacies of flight ..... you are probably right and that's too funny đ
NO NO COME BACK! WE'RE GOING TO PLAY A GAME
I LOVE YOU
I LOVE YOU NOT!
I LOVE YOU
I LOVE YOU NOT!
I LOVE YOU
I LOVE YOU NOT BITCH!!!!
Hawk:
"Da fuq is dis shit? Aww naw. Naw you didn't!"
Proceeds to kick avian ass.
Should become a pro pigeon wrestler
r/DarwinAwards
This is the first time I have seen someone taking the phrase âIâm gonna tear you a new oneâ literally.
The falcon just went throught that tail methodically, one contour feather after another.
Valentine (the falcon's name)! I miss her so much!đ
What happened to her?
She disappeared months after this video. Likely something happened to her.
Ambushed by doves?
Did she manage to hatch her chicks and if so, did they all survive before she disappeared? :(
No unfortunately. The eggs were not fertilised. She had raised some chicks earlier but had been having unfertilised eggs for years since she was paired with Lucky (her partner at the time this video was recorded). Local birders suspected that Lucky was infertile. But then someone mentioned that no one had ever seen them mating, nor had it been heard (peregrines are loud when they do the thing). So a wild guess was that maybe Lucky wasnât infertile but rather didnât know how to/didnât want to mate. After Valentine disappeared, there were several females trying to take over the territory. Lucky was eventually seen mating with a juvenile female named Juju on the camera. Sadly Juju was very soon chased away by another juvenile female named Dragonia and Lucky disappeared before the next breeding season came.
See THIS is the kind of drama I want to hear about. Bonus points for asexual representation. đ
You can watch the live stream here
Pigeons have continued to visit though.đ Probably not the same one.
The dove was like "Su casa es mi casa"
"And in the morning...i'm making waffles!"
"No way you already have the eggs prepared!" Â "Wait....no...stop! what are yo-"
holding the pigeon upside down over the ledge and picking at its feathers is some cold ass mafia shit. lol.
Imagine someone walking into your house to give birth
Then you catch them and start ripping their hair out
Jesusâs birth AU?
I didnât know pigeons can commit suicideâŠ
Aw they got Uber Eats
"Wow, this is a great spot for a nest! Wow, it even has eggs! This place has everything!"
"so there I was, just minding the eggs and this pigeon strolls right in like they owned the place!"
"What?"
"Yeah, just started to make themselves comfortable and tried to get me out of the way, well.... Let's just say they won't be coming round much any more".
-the falcon discussing the incident with their significant other, probably
Would still like to get warned before I witness murder.
Was an aggressive haircut. No murders were committed.
The pigeon escaped and the falcon returned to the nest
same but i think the pigeon escaped
Only after pigeon went under the belly for the eggs did the falcon launch the attack!
Yeah I was gonna say that was a very patient falcon to not immediately spring up and attack like some birds I have seen
You do NOT mess with Mommies. Though I want to state for the record, I love pigeons and am sorry for the loss of some plummage.
Stupid Dove fly in eats
I knew they were pretty stupid, but⊠really?
Grubhub for falcons.
I love how the pigeon even nudged the falcon as if to say âhey itâs my turn to sit on the eggs go take a breakâ lmfaaaooo
Where's the source so I can check why this pigeon had a rather optimistic behavior toward its natural predator ?
I'm not sure pigeons recognize predator birds the way we do; I bet this pigeon would've correctly known to stay away if they saw the shape of the falcon in flight, but close up and sitting it has no clue
I have never seen a dove suicide attempt before this.
Literally walked into the đ»Ì¶đ̶đ̶đ̶đ̶ Hawks den
Falcon. It's a Peregrine.
wasn't prepared for the brutality. Yikes.
The most violent video without gore/blood Iâve ever seen!
Get da squawk outta my house
It's not delivery, it's Dovegiorno.
Girlypop looked at that dove like "Are you blind or stupid?". On another note watching how much of the feathers can be torn off with that beak gave me chills.
"It was just a prank bro! It was just a prank!"
Ah, that poor dumb bird walked in on Mama Falcone and got held over a balcony to think about what it has done.
Dove: Oh, hello there fellow dove. Would you like company? Oh, shittttt.
Falcon when dove cozies up next to her.
Birds are so endearing because they're either the smartest animal you've met that day, or the dumbest.
Uber Eats when the driver leaves with your food, but the driver IS your food...
Bro just fucked around and found out đ€Ł The falcon was surprised of the audacity of the stupid dove đ€Ż
Literally walked into the lionâs den, so to speak, and still lived to tell the tale.. albeit with half a tail.
The hawk couldn't believe this shit
The way she hung the dove over the side and plucked it was insane
Oh no poor baby. That falcon was just like wtf?
Dove: "Jog on, this is my gaff now!" Falcon: "I'm gonna pluck you up!"
She must have ordered through Dove Hub.
Imagine you were in your house minding your own business and a rotisserie chicken just walked through the front door. Easiest dinner ever
reminded me of a thing.
A Pigeon Trying To Court A Falcon : r/interestingasfuck
You got knocked the F out!
You got knocked the F out.
Wood pigeons aren't known for their intelligence đŹ Although that was a particularly stupid wood pigeon đ€Šđ»ââïž
I mean the pigeon is stupid but the falcon couldnât catch it when it pretty much walked into its mouth so who is the real dumbo here?
I don't think the falcon is dumb, that pigeon is just too big for it to subdue easily.
"get the fuck off of my property bitch" no but honestly holy moly thats vile
Fuck me, Wood Pigeons are so stupid.
She lands there, sees the falcon and decides to head inside. Wtf?
And once inside, she tries to reach for falcon's eggs that she is sitting on. Wtf?