Drowning prey?.

[mariko buszynski via Canberrabirds <>]

This may be totally irrelevant but I saw a Japanese documentary in which a Northern Goshawk drowned a Jungle Crow.  It happened in a pond near Tokyo.  Crows regularly come here for a drink and a Goshawk is hiding in a bush.  When he sees a suitable bird he rushes out of the bush and grabs the bird by the nape and brings it into the pond and drowns it.  It was very clever!!  You would think a crow will be doing it.

Mariko

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 3:01 PM Philip Veerman <> wrote:

Well that is very innovative. A new one on me. Though Currawongs and ravens
are known to dunk food in water sometimes. This would seem to be a lot more
sophisticated. I wonder whether the book by Gisela Kaplan would have
anything similar.

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My daughter sent me this email and I could not give her any information on
this.  Is her theory correct?   

"I was sitting on the couch watching the bird bath, and a magpie flew down
to it. It went straight in. Then it seemed to lift something out of the
water in its beak. It looked like a lizard or a spider - it had some long
bits hanging down. Then the magpie put its prey back into the water and held
it down with its foot. It did this several times. After a few minutes it
flew off with the prey in its claws.  I can only conclude it was drowning
it."

Susan Robertson


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