suicidal Red-tailed Hawk

[brian fleming <>]

   From the natural selection angle, for a Buteo hawk to land on an 
Eagle's nest in the Eagle's presence is worthy of a Darwin Award.
   More than twenty years ago, we were at the You Yangs in September.  
We watched fascinated as a pair of Peregrines chased each other round 
the hill-tops in courting flight, with acrobatics thrown in.  A Brown 
Falcon got up in the air - perhaps to make its own territorial claim.  A 
serious error - one of the Peregrines dived at it.  The Brown tried 
evasive action but the Peregrine struck it on the back.  The talons were 
not extended - what the Brown got was a passing biff with the knuckles 
of the foot.  The Brown retired very hastily to a  wattle-tree in great 
disorder. It then moved lower in the wattle, apparently winded and 
severely frightened, with its plumage very ruffled.
  When I first saw the falcons, I had scuttled up a fairly high rock 
and the collision took place quite close to my eye-level, over steeply 
sloping ground, so I had an excellent view.  I am certain that if the 
Peregrine had struck the Brown with its claws open, the Brown would have 
been killed.
Anthea Fleming




On 30/03/2013 9:28 PM, Nikolas Haass wrote:
> Hi birding-aus,
>
> Not sure if anyone has ever seen a White-bellied Sea-Eagle doing what its North 
> American cousin, a Bald Eagle, is doing here:
> Eagle-cam in New Jersey, US.
> http://www.philly.com/philly/video/200618371.html
> Note: This footage contains some avian violence.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nikolas
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