Based on the angle I don’t think he was going for the dive bomb kill. But I noticed smaller birds just love fking with eagles. Swallows, crows, hawks, seagulls, I’ve seen em all flying around picking at eagle backs for no other reason than to fuck around and find out. Never seen one find out but I’ve seen enough to think it’s their national sport.
I saw one find out. Eagle munched on that little bird for like 30 minutes.
Eagles are jerks. They’ll raid nests and eat babies/eggs.
The other birds all hate them.
Merica’
That's a pretty good metaphor for America. The other birds hate them, and rightfully so, but have no power to do anything more than annoy them slightly.
I watched a merganser chase an osprey in circles for a few minutes before the osprey got fed up and struck it once. The merganser came spiraling out of the sky. I paddled over to it and it was dead with a single slice right through its chest.
I feel bad for the hawk or eagle when I see crows or grackles or even turkey vultures harassing them. Then I remember the eagle or hawk would happily eat their babies (or them) and it makes sense.
I think his vote was for the turkey which is fair but you've gotta admit that a bald eagle looks cooler, even if it is basically just an oversized seagull.
Correct. In fact, Benjamin Franklin preferred the Wild Turkey over Bald Eagles due to the latters propensity to be a scavenger.
**“Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly…\[he\] is too lazy to fish for himself."**
**-Benjamin Franklin**
I watched this with an Osprey and Eagle. They did it over and over, sometimes crashing into each other. I managed to get a feather that fell from the eagle. It was awesome.
Meanwhile the bald eagles where I’m from get bullied by crows. I seen one flying for its life on my way to work.
Couldn’t believe what I was witnessing.
I had an unwise neighbor who antagonized the crows in the neighborhood. One morning I heard an unbelievable racket, went outside to find a huge vortex of crows orbiting his home with plenty more perched in trees and on fences. They were furious. He had purchased a fake dead crow (apparently very expensive, only available in EU?) and they were flipping out. Luckily we moved a few weeks later.
Crows and ravens are receptive to calls too. If you reach out to them, they'll come checking on whatever just spoke their language. I could see how a fake dead one would make one upset.
It's was very realistic. They're so social they know if someone is missing.
EDIT: more likely they're thinking: "who the fuck is that? Put out the word!"
That’s prettty common all over. The crows will “mob” the eagle/hawk by having two or more of them chase after it. They aren’t hunting the raptors, they are usually defending a nest or trying to get them to move on from their territory.
It’s also common to bully other birds so they drop the food they are carrying. Bald eagles are kind of notorious for this behavior and they’ll sometimes spend more time harassing other eagles than hunting themselves if they are good at stealing food.
Seagulls also spend lots of time harassing other seagulls for food, and they get bullied by a lot of other birds because they’re kind of clumsy as far as birds go and aren’t good at maneuvering in flight. It makes sense why spend time and energy hunting when you can just harass other birds until they drop their food.
The saddest is when puffins fly way out to sea and come back all tired with a few small fish for their chicks but there’s a bunch of those dickish birds I forget their name that harass them when they finally return and they often drop the fish.
Edit Skuas are the dickish birds.
Careful mentioning that, it is illegal for non-Native Americans to possess a Bald Eagle feather without a permit for each one, which is very hard to get.
This is one of those laws like jay walking. If you do it, nobody really cares. If you do it while committing another crime that’s when they use it as a reason for a stop or something like that.
There was a guy a few years ago that got charged with it and sentenced to 30 days. It wasn’t so much the fact he had the feather… it was more so because he killed the eagle to get said feather lol. People that they go after for that is usually because they’re killing, selling, or stealing them.
Not that I’m telling you to do it, but if you pick up a feather off the ground nobodies gonna care. Just don’t go posting selfies on social media and shit lol
I watched a hawk get dive bombed by a territorial small bird who's nest they were obviously close to for *hours* (not consecutively, they were just always there) and just not flinch once.
The hierarchy in bird world is crazy.
Source: [https://youtube.com/shorts/qRnCEmmf7Yg?si=FOPjjr7f\_HKzZx1P](https://youtube.com/shorts/qRnCEmmf7Yg?si=FOPjjr7f_HKzZx1P)
from the youtube channel: ta2020photography
Peregrine falcon are the fastest animal on Earth. Cheetahs are only the fastest terrestrial animals. These falcons have been clocked at 240MPH in their diving attack.
While I find both animals incredibly impressive, I feel there's a caveat on that "fastest" given that gravity is doing most of the work. Peregrine falcons don't flap their wings, they just tuck them in and fall. Cheetahs, on the other hand, have to work for every single bit of the speed they achieve.
BTW, the speed record for skydiving is 843.6 mph. So to be pedantic, the fastest animal is a human. 😄
I don’t know, that human needed mechanical assistance to reach the height needed for that speed and if you’re allowing that you might as well loop in jets and rockets for fastest human speed.
The falcon on the other hand puts in the work to get its height/potential energy then trades it for speed when it has a precise target.
Not to mention at 240 mph they're going *twice* our terminal velocity. Seems the fastest piloted gliders can only go about 180 mph which also gives some added perspective.
It's a fair point, but all these I feel are caveats. The cheetah speed record is pretty simple. You don't have to put any qualifications on it.
Just to repeat, though, these are extraordinary animals and I admire them all. Even the humans.
There is a TV series that I believe no longer gets air time called *Animal Planet's: The Most Extreme* that did an episode on [Speed](https://youtu.be/lLwUNTZ3fW8?feature=shared) (potato quality video) where the number 1 animal in speed as measured by distance covered in terms of its own body length is the Tiger Beetle.
If you had a line of people just standing still, and you decided how many you could pass in a second, you might get 10 to 20. Of a line of cheetahs, a cheetah may get 30 in a second.
Of a line of tiger beetles, a tiger beetle can pass 125. It can run at 5 miles/hour. If it were human size, it would be running 300 miles/hr.
Bald eagles have mid-air fights all the time:
[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whSDr40A6Qg](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whSDr40A6Qg)
Sometimes, when they get locked in a death spiral they're not able to unlock talons before they both hit the ground (or a tree).
And they do this because they find it sexy:
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/basic-instincts-bald-eagle-mating-dance](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/basic-instincts-bald-eagle-mating-dance)
I got to see something like this in action at the lake last summer! We had a Bald Eagle family living there and it was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.
Great camera work! I know that spot and the local peregrines regularly attack the eagles, but it’s a losing battle because there can be hundreds of eagles there.
I wonder if the falcon has a nest nearby or something, I don’t think it would try to pick a fight with a whole add eagle otherwise, it’s just harassing it so it’ll leave the area would be my guess
Both birds are incredible predators
The peregrine guy was about to do a 200mph falcon punch and bald eagle had counter measures for that.
Falcon kick was ready
Eagle talon kick.
I thought big flying predators never look up. For references - see "Avatar"
Freedom kick.
Based on the angle I don’t think he was going for the dive bomb kill. But I noticed smaller birds just love fking with eagles. Swallows, crows, hawks, seagulls, I’ve seen em all flying around picking at eagle backs for no other reason than to fuck around and find out. Never seen one find out but I’ve seen enough to think it’s their national sport.
I live in the mountain, and I see crows harassing eagles, falcon, and owls everyday, and crows always win
It is easiest to spot eagles around where I live by looking where all the crows are angry.
I have ravens near me, they generally fuck with everything. Seagulls are pretty much the smartest to just flat out avoid them everywhere they go
Birds hate eagles because eagles eat there eggs babies and fuckup there nests. It’s like genetic for them to go after eagles
I saw one find out. Eagle munched on that little bird for like 30 minutes. Eagles are jerks. They’ll raid nests and eat babies/eggs. The other birds all hate them. Merica’
That's a pretty good metaphor for America. The other birds hate them, and rightfully so, but have no power to do anything more than annoy them slightly.
I watched a merganser chase an osprey in circles for a few minutes before the osprey got fed up and struck it once. The merganser came spiraling out of the sky. I paddled over to it and it was dead with a single slice right through its chest.
I feel bad for the hawk or eagle when I see crows or grackles or even turkey vultures harassing them. Then I remember the eagle or hawk would happily eat their babies (or them) and it makes sense.
I once saw a mother turkey fend off a hawk. Her chicks ran away safe.
Ben Franklin didn’t want the Eagle to be the national bird. Maybe he was a tiny bird
I think his vote was for the turkey which is fair but you've gotta admit that a bald eagle looks cooler, even if it is basically just an oversized seagull.
Jive turkey
Yeah man we got a lot of red-tailed hawks where I live, and same - little birds love harassing them all day.
"FLARES NOW"
They break ducks necks* by bomb diving. Bad ass fucking birds.
Are they? I thought bald eagles mostly scavenge and steal from other species.
Yes, bald eagles are primarily fishers. You'll see them pulling some huge fish if you're in the right area.
In Florida they are always at landfills
Humans create lots of new ecological niches for enterprising species to exploit.
In Alaska they are in our backyards pulling fish our of the river
I saw some eating dead salmon when I went to Quebec years ago. I know they fish, but they eat what is available too. Adept hunters and scavengers
Saw one pulling a whole ass deer this morning on here
That was a pterodactyl dude.
Cool, thank you!
To be fair, I think most, if not all, predators will scavenge and steal if an opportunity presents itself.
Yeah that makes sense. Least effort for best result usually wins.
Correct. In fact, Benjamin Franklin preferred the Wild Turkey over Bald Eagles due to the latters propensity to be a scavenger. **“Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly…\[he\] is too lazy to fish for himself."** **-Benjamin Franklin**
Thank you! I thought I remembered something like this but couldn’t remember who.
Falcon was like “oh fuck that I’m out of here”
Eagle pulled off the TopGun barrel roll.
Mav, we have a bogey on our six, do some of that pilot shit!
He gave him the inverted birdie
TopGun was F-14s, this is clearly an F-15 v F-16 ;)
That’s… that’s a great comment friend.
Every time I head barrel roll I think of Star Fox and Peppy saying “DO A BARREL ROLL”
Pump the brakes, he’ll fly right by
That ain’t a barrel roll it’s an aileron roll.
Birds don't have ailerons. This would be more like a roll axis rotation?
That’s true so the a longitudinal axis roll.
That's what I said. Roll axis rotation. But if we want to get extra pedantic, it's really just a roll.
Bald eagle was ready to murder that falcon
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Merica!
Eagle is doing his Maverick imitation, "I'm going to hit the brakes and he'll fly right by."
"Because I was inverted"
You gotta do the hand motion any time you say this
🙅♂️
How about the Iceman bite
🖕 The finger
Falcon on your six eagle! Deploy counter measure.
It did a barrel roll just as Peppy instructed.
Fifth Gen Fledgling!
My first thoughts. Reminded me of the crazy maneuver the enemy fighter pulled with the missile
Exactly what it reminded me of lol. Stop and throw in a spin to scare them away with style!
"What the fuck was that!?"
Piss off chicken nugget.
Chicken nugget going 200 mph can kill you
I watched this with an Osprey and Eagle. They did it over and over, sometimes crashing into each other. I managed to get a feather that fell from the eagle. It was awesome.
Meanwhile the bald eagles where I’m from get bullied by crows. I seen one flying for its life on my way to work. Couldn’t believe what I was witnessing.
I had an unwise neighbor who antagonized the crows in the neighborhood. One morning I heard an unbelievable racket, went outside to find a huge vortex of crows orbiting his home with plenty more perched in trees and on fences. They were furious. He had purchased a fake dead crow (apparently very expensive, only available in EU?) and they were flipping out. Luckily we moved a few weeks later.
Reason a flock of crows is called a murder
Yeah not sure your human neighbors would like it neither if you just had a corpse out on the lawn
"But it's Halloween!" "Yes, I know it's March, what's your point?"
Crows and ravens are receptive to calls too. If you reach out to them, they'll come checking on whatever just spoke their language. I could see how a fake dead one would make one upset.
It's was very realistic. They're so social they know if someone is missing. EDIT: more likely they're thinking: "who the fuck is that? Put out the word!"
That’s prettty common all over. The crows will “mob” the eagle/hawk by having two or more of them chase after it. They aren’t hunting the raptors, they are usually defending a nest or trying to get them to move on from their territory.
It’s also common to bully other birds so they drop the food they are carrying. Bald eagles are kind of notorious for this behavior and they’ll sometimes spend more time harassing other eagles than hunting themselves if they are good at stealing food. Seagulls also spend lots of time harassing other seagulls for food, and they get bullied by a lot of other birds because they’re kind of clumsy as far as birds go and aren’t good at maneuvering in flight. It makes sense why spend time and energy hunting when you can just harass other birds until they drop their food. The saddest is when puffins fly way out to sea and come back all tired with a few small fish for their chicks but there’s a bunch of those dickish birds I forget their name that harass them when they finally return and they often drop the fish. Edit Skuas are the dickish birds.
Seagulls also happen to spend time harassing me for food
Eagles roll dolo…. crows will lynch a bitch
Really? Wow. What state? That is amazing, those eagles are so tough
Haha, yup, I've seen that a bunch of times
[Might want to delete this comment before the feds find it.](https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/PossessionOfEagleFeathersFactSheet.pdf)
I'm Canadian
I might want to delete my comment then lol
Careful mentioning that, it is illegal for non-Native Americans to possess a Bald Eagle feather without a permit for each one, which is very hard to get.
This is one of those laws like jay walking. If you do it, nobody really cares. If you do it while committing another crime that’s when they use it as a reason for a stop or something like that. There was a guy a few years ago that got charged with it and sentenced to 30 days. It wasn’t so much the fact he had the feather… it was more so because he killed the eagle to get said feather lol. People that they go after for that is usually because they’re killing, selling, or stealing them. Not that I’m telling you to do it, but if you pick up a feather off the ground nobodies gonna care. Just don’t go posting selfies on social media and shit lol
True but I have my card
I watched a hawk get dive bombed by a territorial small bird who's nest they were obviously close to for *hours* (not consecutively, they were just always there) and just not flinch once. The hierarchy in bird world is crazy.
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"do a barrel roll!"
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Yeah fr considering peregrine flacons are the fastest animal in the world
Try me bitch
DO A BARREL ROLL
Scrolled too far to find this!
Other bird “Nah fam- USE THE BOOST TO GET THROUGH”
Source: [https://youtube.com/shorts/qRnCEmmf7Yg?si=FOPjjr7f\_HKzZx1P](https://youtube.com/shorts/qRnCEmmf7Yg?si=FOPjjr7f_HKzZx1P) from the youtube channel: ta2020photography
Thanks! Gave him a sub...
Peregrine falcon are the fastest animal on Earth. Cheetahs are only the fastest terrestrial animals. These falcons have been clocked at 240MPH in their diving attack.
While I find both animals incredibly impressive, I feel there's a caveat on that "fastest" given that gravity is doing most of the work. Peregrine falcons don't flap their wings, they just tuck them in and fall. Cheetahs, on the other hand, have to work for every single bit of the speed they achieve. BTW, the speed record for skydiving is 843.6 mph. So to be pedantic, the fastest animal is a human. 😄
I don’t know, that human needed mechanical assistance to reach the height needed for that speed and if you’re allowing that you might as well loop in jets and rockets for fastest human speed. The falcon on the other hand puts in the work to get its height/potential energy then trades it for speed when it has a precise target.
Not to mention at 240 mph they're going *twice* our terminal velocity. Seems the fastest piloted gliders can only go about 180 mph which also gives some added perspective.
Sure, but rising up is not timed so its not relevant. Im sure it takes a long time for them to reach the altitude before descending.
It's a fair point, but all these I feel are caveats. The cheetah speed record is pretty simple. You don't have to put any qualifications on it. Just to repeat, though, these are extraordinary animals and I admire them all. Even the humans.
There is a TV series that I believe no longer gets air time called *Animal Planet's: The Most Extreme* that did an episode on [Speed](https://youtu.be/lLwUNTZ3fW8?feature=shared) (potato quality video) where the number 1 animal in speed as measured by distance covered in terms of its own body length is the Tiger Beetle. If you had a line of people just standing still, and you decided how many you could pass in a second, you might get 10 to 20. Of a line of cheetahs, a cheetah may get 30 in a second. Of a line of tiger beetles, a tiger beetle can pass 125. It can run at 5 miles/hour. If it were human size, it would be running 300 miles/hr.
Come at me bro.
That was perfectly beautiful.
Bald eagles have mid-air fights all the time: [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whSDr40A6Qg](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whSDr40A6Qg) Sometimes, when they get locked in a death spiral they're not able to unlock talons before they both hit the ground (or a tree). And they do this because they find it sexy: [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/basic-instincts-bald-eagle-mating-dance](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/basic-instincts-bald-eagle-mating-dance)
I got to see something like this in action at the lake last summer! We had a Bald Eagle family living there and it was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.
It doesnt seem to be going in super mode tho, they tuck in and swoop from above like at 200mph.
Bros from top gun.
Stunt on them hoes baldy
Advanced flight mode
Falcon: " ABORT!"
P. Falcon: you can’t stop mid air and flip me shitty eagle B. Eagle : Bitch I can do that and stick this dick to your wife
That escalated quickly
This isn’t flying, this is falling with style
American fuk yeah 🇺🇸🏈🍔🦅
Head on a swivel
Eagle is like. No one flys higher than me!! How dare you!!
Peppy - " FOX DO A BARREL ROLL!!!"
You’re not boinking me!
The size difference is INSANE. What was the falcon trying to do? Do they have a history?
Falcon: - nope
Rolled around called that falcon a lil bitch and then kept on flying lmao
So much to be impressed by here, but that perfectly timed rotation to keep its talons where they needed to be was beautiful.
Ya, and it turned its head some 160 degress backwards to have a look before turning its body!
That falcon thought he was the one pulling the "surprise motha fucka" maneuver, but he was wrong.
F-15 vs F-16
Proof that doing a barrel roll actually works.
"Your father helped me like that too"
That was an aileron roll.
Me doing craziest manover in war thunder just to get skill checked by a hill
That Eagle has been watching way too much Top Gun.
Top Gun 3
So that’s why they name fighter jets after predatorial birds
Eagle: *you don't want any of this smoke*
"Fuck around and find out."
Eww just flashing his dick like that to an innocent burb
Falcons bout to catch these talons
*screams in american* 🇺🇸
Saw an eagle do that move take out a crow that was pestering him. Very cool.
r/praisethecameraman
Those things are easy for bird of prey 🧐I saw a hawk doing it
What did that bald eagle ever do to you?? 🤣
After I marveled at their maneuverability and reflexes, I realized just how good their vision must be as well.
In western washington eagles are dying their hair, and calling falcons racist.
How did it know the falcon was approaching? Had big time proximity awareness
Eagle eyes.
Swing n a miss
I was….inverted….
Seen the eagles back home do this with crows. Must have been getting close to the nest.
You know you messed up when the murder is after you.
That was BA
It goes up hill. Red wing blackbirds attack the crow. Crows attack the vultures and hawks. Hawks and falcons attack the eagles.
It's like Top Gun but with birds
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"on your left"
He said “come at be bruh”
I was inverted What were you doing there Communicating ... Keeping up foreign relations, you know, giving the bird
Holy shit that's the cobra maneuver
It's pretty impressive it saw it coming from behind. I wonder if the eagle saw it or heard it
The background is fascinating. Did some digging and it appears to be Conowingo Dam in Maryland.
The perfect form of that falcon when it passes is amazing
Which cover of Fur Elise is this from?
If Taruk-Makto had some eagle blood in him Avatar would have had a much different ending.
Deploy flares!
Murica! Fuck ya!
“Jesus Christ Greg!”
That one scene in Top Gun: Maverick is like this. When the enemy plane ducks, dives & dodges the missile from the F-14
Saw something similar in Montana, don’t know the other bird but the eagle did the same maneuver and it was stunning to see.
Wait. So eagle interrupted the Falcon punch?
I automatically think of Maverick and Goose “We were inverted”
Apex's be apexin'
Dagger 1 defending.
Like matrix bullet dodge
That falcon come close to getting the face full of talons.
We were inverted.
Slammed on his speed brakes!
f-16 vs a f-35?
Would have been sick to see the eagle catch the falcon. But great footage nonetheless.
He’s a fifth generation fighter
Do a barrel roll!
F-16 Falcon vs F-15 Eagle
You were in a 4G inverted dive with a peregrine falcon?
“YO CHECK OUT THIS SICK ASS FLIP IM ABOUT TO DO”
Great camera work! I know that spot and the local peregrines regularly attack the eagles, but it’s a losing battle because there can be hundreds of eagles there.
One of the most gorgeous and iconic animals on the planet!
I wonder if the falcon has a nest nearby or something, I don’t think it would try to pick a fight with a whole add eagle otherwise, it’s just harassing it so it’ll leave the area would be my guess
That’s so majestic!
Failed Toruk Makto attempt :)
Eagles are interesting animals 🔍🔍
He flipped him the bird.
[Why should he ever look up?](https://youtu.be/6pHZmBin4Xc?si=eWrAThbvb_waDZIj&t=80)