Magpie controls the population of small birds, while sparrowhawk controls the population of magpie. Foodchain

My message to that magpie would be 'What goes around comes around' !!

@yourdaddy6030

Жыл бұрын

Its message to you would be STFU.

Amazing job on this video. Usually people make the mistake of getting too close trying to get the best shots and the raptor ends up flying away. Seems like you were a good distance and got some amazing footage. Cheers!!

Beautiful photography, editing, and close ups. This is something that most of us rarely get to see in nature. Thank you for sharing and posting.

The Magpie's voice got weaker as the Sparrowhawk's claws dug deeper. Great video footage thanks for sharing it.

It's the circle of life. The Sparrowhawk may have chicks to feed. It's sad but the only positive thing to take away is most things don't kill for fun. They kill to survive.

@eddiehowland

7 жыл бұрын

Sarah Tates someone finally talking sense

@si4632

7 жыл бұрын

yeah but its rather annoying when people state the bloody obvious isnt it lol

@TimMik135

5 жыл бұрын

Sarah Tates damn straight! You don't see sparrowhawks setting up magpie factory farms!!

@arch.remleelavuap9290

5 жыл бұрын

So its ok to kill people in order to survive! Bad Sarah!

@s2mgd329

3 жыл бұрын

Well, cats do kill for fun.

Amazing how much energy and patience is involved in hunting like this. Great video. You can just see the horror in the magpie's eyes, and the rapid breathing of trying to escape stands out so much!

Eddie, outstanding video!! That was nature at it's finest! That magpie put up a hell of a fight for sure!! I assume the hawk won out in the end and got it's meal. You must have been on top of those birds to get those great close-ups! Well done!

good bloody job the amount of eggs and fledglings the Magpie takes and kills its payback time.

@xxxpetz5xxxxxxpetz5xxx15

8 жыл бұрын

+David Ellis you are so hard!

@AlphaDwg

5 жыл бұрын

sparrowhawk take its fair shair too. it's just the circle of life. Something will come along and eat the sparrowhawk too or take it's babies

@danivarius

5 жыл бұрын

David Ellis I totally agree!

@yourdaddy6030

2 жыл бұрын

The magpie is just trying to survive like any other bird or animal for that matter. They are efficient and ruthless. But they don't do it for kicks. They do it to feed themselves and their chicks. I feel so dapper I'm rhyming like a rapper. Holy shit that was lame.

Fantastic film work and thank you for putting it on this site

@eddiehowland6176

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks. makes a change from the usual hate comments and death threats. Lol

@reshadmirzakhel191

8 жыл бұрын

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@alisalauzon9291

5 жыл бұрын

Ya, great filming!!

This is the most amazing thing I've seen yet on KZread! This is nature at it's cruellist I know, but wow it is still fantastic to see this hawk in action. What a natural killer. Have you part two. We live in the heart of the forest and often hear this cry. Now I know what it is. Thank you for showing this.

Great footage! We see Sparrowhawks in our area quite a few times each year, those that come to our gardens are often too late to catch a kill but we do see some flying towards woodland with little birds in their claws.

Of course that, by empathy, I feel sorry for the preyed bird. It sucks to be a prey. But as the british ethologist Richard Dawkins said before: Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent.

@si4632

7 жыл бұрын

dont listen to that moron dawkins

@countercuIture

3 жыл бұрын

@@lIllIlllIlIllIlllIlIllIlllIl I don't think we were ever prey

@yourdaddy6030

2 жыл бұрын

Just watch a couple videos of magpies preying on smaller birds and animals after this. You won't feel nearly as bad. Nature has a way of evening stuff out.

@yourdaddy6030

2 жыл бұрын

@@si4632 or that dipshit "yes"

It is indeed a balancing act, though did find myself wishing that the Sparrowhawk would get on with it and stop looking around! One wonders how many times the Magpie had done that to other birds, but then its as natural to both of them as us eating a bowl of cornflakes.

@peabase

10 жыл бұрын

I have to second that. Magpies see a bowl of cornflakes in a songbird's nest. I've seen huge bands of magpies obliterate songbirds from an area for years. It makes it extra hard to spare them during nesting season, when the law forbids culling.

@Biggles-gm6tm

10 жыл бұрын

peabase I know, keep emotion out of it though. Worst thing you can do is become anthropomorphic about it. They don't think like humans and they're not being cruel, they're all just being birds..

@peabase

10 жыл бұрын

Biggles Wingman It's human agriculture that sustains unnaturally large magpie populations. I feel that as the instigators, we owe it to nature to keep some songbird nesting areas corvid-free. The magpies will still take their toll, but at least the songbirds stand a chance.

@Biggles-gm6tm

10 жыл бұрын

peabase Yes good argument,but its not just magpie populations, pretty well everything is out of kilter as a result of our input. Where do you draw the line.? I agree that corvid populations are unnaturally high and songbirds suffer, but this is a symptom not a cause. We need to change the way we do things. Your answer may be a good short term fix but its not the ultimate answer. Song bird population is in free fall which is really worrying but shooting magpies is a sticky plaster really. Umm, more raptors? They're not too picky either. If you have a solutions you'll make millions.

@peabase

10 жыл бұрын

Biggles Wingman Big raptors are the answer, actually, and they are making a slow but sure comeback. I was surprised to hear my neighbour claim that the crow and seagull carcasses we've been finding aren't the work of a mink, but that of a white-tailed eagle. I'm sceptical, but despite our all efforts, we haven't managed to trap any mink. I wish it to be true, because it would also keep another invasive species in check: catus domestica.

Cooper's hawk, Sparrow hawk, Red Tail hawk and Im sure their others. I learned a lot watching these videos

@RikasChannel

3 жыл бұрын

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Great video, I saw a sparrowhawk today standing on a wall just a few feet away from me in Sussex, the first time I'd seen one so close.

If this Sparrowhawk make a regular habit of killing Magpies it can only be good for the local songbird population, they are the very worst killers of small birds and also egg takers, the Magpies need taking out by whatever means possible.

@hassanyousifabdul

8 жыл бұрын

+Englishman French They are very noisy too, and I've seen some Magpies eating small chicks alive!.

@si4632

7 жыл бұрын

shes a beauty

@andychauhan6544

6 жыл бұрын

godsadog haha!...good one, btw they're the noisiest too...these frenchified english.

@Ronin.Samurai

6 жыл бұрын

Englishman French oh boo boo. That’s nature deal with it

@alisalauzon9291

5 жыл бұрын

Steal eggs too did not know that.

Magpies are the biggest killer of localised small birdlife in most areas, with their overbearing overdominent nature sweeping through, stealing nests, killing eggs and generally destroying all in their paths. When I moved into my house nearly 14 years ago now, I used to have a lot of finches, bluetits, robins, sparrows, thrushes etc around my house..... now we only have magpies. Progressively the magpie has killed through nearly all of the species here. Its about time the sparrowhawks diverted their attention to the Magpies.

@theenglishman9596

5 жыл бұрын

#jonny get yourself a powerful air rifle, I destroyed 8 in 5 minutes in my oak tree in the front garden.

Incredible footage. I live in West Sussex. A Sparrow Hawk took a Wood Pigeon in my back garden. It took an hour and twenty minutes to subdue and eat it's fill. I cleaned up afterwards and disposed of the carcase but my wife had missed it all. At 6.30am next morning she noticed the Sparrow Hawk on one of our bushes. It had returned to look for the pigeon for breakfast. This upload may not be to everyones taste but shows true nature as it is meant to be.

@eddiehowland

8 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Amazing footage, thanks for posting. Friday afternoon I witnessed a Sparrowhawk take a Dove from my lawn, felt quite honoured seeing such a beautiful bird visit my garden in its quest for food. Didn't realise one would take a Magpie, thanks again.

I think adding any kind of music would detract fom the raw brutality of nature.

@yourdaddy6030

2 жыл бұрын

Great job bro. No music necessary.

That magpie is very young. An adult would have been much more difficult to hold down in this manner.

@veng3r663

5 жыл бұрын

Yes adult Magpies have a MUCH stronger grip with their claws than you would first expect...

@charleswidjaja8313

5 жыл бұрын

@Adam Al - Earthy ,brid

@charleswidjaja8313

5 жыл бұрын

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This is some INCREDIBLE footage. Kudos, to whomever was capturing this on film. I've been in the avian field, for nearly 25yrs now, and it still never ceases to amaze me, the sheer beak power the "Corvid" family of birds possess. Indeed as one other poster commented about, this was in fact large prey, for this particular hawk to catch, but not impossible either.

Sparrowhawk is like beautiful angel who eliminate the evil

Good stuff. I love birds but, detest Magpies with a passion. I was prompted to Google this as I have just had a Sparrowhawk in my garden for the first time with its quarry in its talons but being bullied by 2 of those shit things, it eventually left having dropped what it had caught. I can't believe how close you got to that beautiful animal.

@glynn36

7 жыл бұрын

Mark Harper well said. I hate magpies as well. They are nothing bit scavenging, theiving bastards.

@s2mgd329

3 жыл бұрын

@@glynn36 and you are nothing more than a dumbass.

Thank you for your video. I don't think it's bad you filmed it. What's frustrating about what's happening there is they've recently found the magpie to be self-aware, as intelligent as a chimpanzee or dolphin, and with an equally proportioned brain to a human and a highly developed forebrain in particular. They use tools, plan, socialize, even have some evidence of language. They're considered among the most intelligent 5-10 animals, and likely the most intelligent bird by a wide margin. I learned this after discussing with my wife, PhD student in psychology studying animal consciousness. So it's sad to see a larger, stronger bird making something suffer that probably has an internal cognitive experience of life that's a lot like us humans. But this does happen in nature, all the time. I'd still hoped the magpie might have a way of escaping, but the hawk seems to have an inescapable iron grip on the poor bird. Intelligence wouldn't do it much good there. Just curious, but did the magpie make it or was it eaten in the end? All the best my friend. And again, thanks for your bravely posting this. It is valuable and should stay up, even if it's gory.

@goshawk1974

10 жыл бұрын

Dude you're too smart to be a KZreadr. Shouldn't you be spitting the Atom somewhere?

@CoNvdMerwe

10 жыл бұрын

Nope the Magpie wont survive this.

@y0bama

7 жыл бұрын

Cool Biology Internal cognitive experience? Just because we can't measure a particular type of cognition doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Don't you think that less complex organisms also have a deep desire to live and to avoid pain? Equally just because it might be self aware, or recognises itself in a mirror, is more similar to primates, does not mean it experiences life more profoundly, that sounds very bias. Natural selection can be cruel, but it's not as cruel as what the meat industry does on a daily basis.

@alysonstainsby8513

6 жыл бұрын

Cool Biology derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@SpaceboyGT

6 жыл бұрын

Cool Biology all that dam screamin is his defense. in the end 😭😭 it's still screamin

Good thing you didn`t interfere! A magpie is pretty much the biggest prey a sparrowhawk can handle, so it`s really a touch & go if it can actually make the kill. And usually younger, desperate (female) hawks will go for it by the time they start to fend for themselves. Chasing it away would mean almost certain death for the hawk, as it spends a huge amount of energy on a chase like this.

I don't know whether i would have quite worded it like that but you are absolutely right!...My message to that Magpie is 'WHAT GOES AROUND,COMES AROUND'!

That may be but I would have helped the Magpie. It took quite a while for that bird to die. Can YOU relate to the terror and fear!

@I3R0K3N7FEET

10 жыл бұрын

helped the mapie? I would have caught and fed the sparrowhawk and kept it as a pet.. :3

@Ronin.Samurai

6 жыл бұрын

John Hayes you have no right to interfere with nature. It needs to eat as we;l. Leave nature alone

@theenglishman9596

5 жыл бұрын

#ayes you are a ignorant townie, you watch too many stupid tv programmes. #13rok3n you too are a imbecile it is illegal to harm or capture sparrow hawkes in Great Britan

*+Michael Koser* "There is no such raptor known as a sparrow hawk. That is a coopers hawk. Still a cool video." Don'tcha just love internet experts? Mr Koser, read a book once in a while, preferably one that includes birds that aren't indigenous to *your* country.

@CoNvdMerwe

10 жыл бұрын

Bwhahaha what happened to Mr Michael Koser`s original post, saying this isn`t a Spar and a Coopers? I also wanted to give him some educational advise.

@walkercatlett9820

8 жыл бұрын

Yes there is such a thing as a Sparrowhawk, they are a European accipiter and this was in Europe

@williamstephens9945

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, there is such a raptor as a Sparrowhawk - I see them quite often here in the UK.

@coryboy345

6 жыл бұрын

You have no idea what the hell you are talking about Anthony....

Good footage, really well done. Sparrowhawks are awesome. And I love the way it puts its talons right in the magpie's beak... it's like "shhhhh"

lol its like "hey im gonna eat you but until you shut up i'm gonna pull all your feathers out"

i would have saved the magpie

@eddiehowland

10 жыл бұрын

Which is like saying you would have helped kill the hawk.... by starving it.

@seanspady5236

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, I would have

@paulbowness8125

9 жыл бұрын

Anguis Helper I'd have killed the magpie and fed it to my dog.

@seanspady5236

9 жыл бұрын

paul bowness So, cruel!

@paulbowness8125

9 жыл бұрын

Anguis Helper Not as cruel as you wanting to starve the poor Sparrowhawk. Sparrowhawks have to eat something....what do you suggest, they order Pizza?

Awesome footage. To the uploader please. What camera did you use and how far away from the battle were you?

Brilliant footage mate. It lets people know what is really happening in the natural world like there back garden. A magpie is easy for them to catch but very difficult to kill & eat, a blackbird or chaffinch is a bit more difficult for them to catch but easy to kill. What you caught on the film is not rare but that wee hawk must have been very desperate. Good show...

@eddiehowland Thats amazing. I never knew a sparrowhawk would try to kill something as big&tough as a magpie! When you shot the magpie did the sparrowhawk come back quickly to feed?

@eddiehowland so how did it end?? did you kill the magpie or did the hawk manage to do so? it looked like it was a juvenile magpie, still the hawk hat serious trouble to kill it... dont think they usually hunt prey of that size. He really risked to get injured by the magpie. thanks for the post!

@eddiehowland so what was the end result for the magpie did the sparrow hawk finish it off and eat it of did he give up tring to kill it

He's like SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME FINISH MY MEAL !!!

I saw this happen in a car park in my village yesterday - at least 100 metres from the woods. I couldn't see what species the victim was, but the sparrowhawk was plucking a lot of white feathers out of its chest.

Amazing video. I had one in my garden today that had brought down a jackdaw. They tussled in the garden for a few minutes but the jackdaw managed to escape. The kids wanted me to go and chase it away but it's nature. Not my place to interfere

Just this one reply then you can all emulate the bird and tear me to shreds. I can't deny it's a good piece of film, capturing something most of us don't get to see. To get things correct though, the filming was post 'take out'. There's no shot of the chase or capture, simply a dwelling on the gory aftermath - with soundtrack.

@cozmium Hiya, thanks for the comment. I agree to a point about us interfering and being compassionate, but think about it, if we interviened we would indeed be helping the magpie... but being cruel to the hawk by depriving it of a meal. Cant be compassionate to both as by interfering we would change the nature of things and if every one did this the whole food chain would be well and truley screwed up.

Brilliant photography Eddie. I currently have an infrared camera set up on a feeding station in my garden in the Cotswolds to film foxes and hedgehog's. I can see them live, but at the moment I don't have the ability or equipment to video the interaction between them and my cat's. Only some dodgy video from my mobile phone. Fascinating stuff as the foxes are terrified by my cats and when the cat attacks the foxes run for their lives!

Just curious - did the magpie make it in the end or ever get any kind of upper hand? It looked so hopeless for it. Appreciate the post. Thank you.

amazing clip! i just saw a sparrowhawk in my tiny, paved back yard. i googled 'sparrowhawk' and this was the first clip that came up. now i'm just having a giggle at the outraged responses.

@eddiehowland Did it actually eat the magpie or not?

Wow, this is a lot better than my sparrowhawk video.

In a way you'd feel like helping the Magpie but on the other hand you know the sparrowhawks gotta eat too! Awesome video btw :)

Thank you. Much apreciated. Eddie

@tomtalker2000 Thank you. I didnt know what to do, but the noise the magpie was making was distressing. I only interviened when it was obvious the magpie could not recover. The hawk NEVER let go and i pushed it aside to get a headshot. It was still carrying on ripping at it hours later.

Magpie: sorry bro, I wont steal food from you ever again!!!! Sparrowhawk: Stop moving while I eat you... Bro

what a brilliant video,.the superiority of the sparrowhawk,.my favourite bird of prey,

So do all Sparrowhawks grip onto the birds head while ripping its feathers out?

You just stood there and watched.

@eddiehowland

6 жыл бұрын

Yes . Its nature. Who am I to stop a wild bird from feeding? What would you have done? I am also cameraman. Do you complain when you see bbc documentaries of wild animals feeding and killing?

@danivarius

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he did; sparrow hawk did a great job!

Absolutely correct. Fantastic video, even if quite difficult to watch due to the slow death of the Magpie. Congratulations.

I love birds of prey. Eagles, Hawks, owls. Ah just beautiful.

Thanks for that. Much appreciated.

Huh? He didn't film a serial killer taking out a victim here, he filmed a natural event and the footage is really rather incredible. I've never seen a sparrowhawk taking out a magpie. Thanks Eddie Howland for this footage.

G-D is working, in mysterious ways, Ramen and HummDooLeeLooYeah!

Thank you - I apreciate that.

Nature is very cruel, but the morning chorus as they call it , (most asleep, and never hear it) is wonderful Leonard Cohen, American poet and singer, says they , the birds are saying and singing "START AGAIN" at every new dawn, every day-they still have hope I think he is is trying to say, we should think like these beautiful creatures

Yeah, some Magpies nowadays are quite agressive. We had one in our garden yesterday that went upto a Pigeon from behind, clamped it's beat on to the Pigeon's tail and the Pigeon struggled but got away but there was a pile of feathers left after.

never seen like this before... thanks for the upload

I am so happy that you have put this up, I have had good and bad feedback on mine, please leave all your good and bad for others to view, I support you effort great filming of nature at it's best.

Well done Sparrowhawk, Magpies need to be kept in check !!

@abc1234567a1

9 жыл бұрын

Crows, Ravens, and Magpies> Eagles Hawks and Falcons.

Great footage, I do love Sparrs........

Dear eddie, Thanks for your response. My friend has magpies coming on his roof every afternoon creating a nuisance. How could he get rid of them with out buying a Saparrowhawk. . Buying a further bird seems like throwing good money after bad. He has a criminal record already so he can't use a gun. . Any ideas? . Cheers. from del-boy.

@Eloshly If you think that then presumably you agree that someone should "catch" you everytime you eat a meal?

Excellent video, well shot!

so how did it end?? did you kill the magpie or did the hawk manage to do so? it looked like it was a juvenile magpie, still the hawk had serious trouble to kill it... dont think they usually hunt prey of that size. He really risked to get injured by the magpie. thanks for the post!

That sparrowhawk as asperations/delusions of being a Goshawk

thanks for sharing eddie

@maven21 Hi Yes the film was edited. Overall it took 6 plus hours for the hawk to fly off. People seem to think it was a young hawk - I dont know. I think the hawk took the magpie off the branches above where it was filmed. They were in the branches fighting when i first heard the noise. By the time i got the camera - (45 seconds) it was as on the ground as you see in the film..

Sparrowhawk what a beauty!

Excellent footage. I have footage of a sparrowhawk in my garden doing exactly the same thing with a live pigeon. Its from a VHS-C camcorder though, dont know if its possible to get it on to KZread.

@GRPLiningServices Thanks for that. The camera was a Canon XM1. A 3 chip DV camcorder. A bit dated now but an excellent camcorder. I still geep it as a backup. Had items broadcast on TV news and BBC real rescues from it!! Look on my website for more info on my current equipement and to see my usual line of filming, lol. Distance ranged from 30ft (ist shot) right up to about literally a few feet from them. Hawk kept looking at me, with "the look", but he wasnt giving up his dinner!!

I love when they start plucking them. The prey gets so terrified when they start getting plucked lol

Thank you

Magpies are lesser corvids and are not that difficult to catch for Sparrowhawks but, like in this scene, Magpies often screech to alert other Magpies to their help. It's their primary defense and also it annoys the raptor to no end. Crows on the other hand are much more defensive but Goshawks often take them down.

One of the most fascinating videos I have ever seen on youtube. I felt bad for the magpie mostly because it was a slow and painful death. The hawk was just beautiful with those incredible eyes. Humans prey on other humans in different ways but are even more vicious than that hawk because they do it out of greed. The hawk is just trying to survive.

Great video, it seems that you can see what the beast was thinking

@NiteLiter It was an ols Canon XM1 3 chip Mini DV video camera. I now use a full size shoulder mounted broadcast quality JVC GY HD 201 camera. Stills were done on a Nikon D300 with 18-200

Today a view from my garden while i just wanted to enter my back door. Sparrow hawk passes me 2 meters from me 30 centimeter from the ground. Go's in like 90 degrees angles up by my gate 180 degrees over it 90 degrees dive over the road crosses the street another 90 degrees by the fence of my neighbor with an 180 degrees angle over that fence. Some birds on that side of the wall were surprised....

@robrichardson8232

10 жыл бұрын

Cor bet they were with all thoses angles..lol

Mi meraviglio che qualcuno rimane scandalizzato da episodi come queso che in natura succedono normalmente e continuamente.Ogni essere umano carnivoro,dovrebbe comunque assistere almeno una volta nella vita a come muore un pollo,un agnello oppre un manzo;ed a scuola dovrebbero sempre spiegare ai bambini che la fettina di petto di pollo che mangeranno a pranzo,due giorni prima apparteneva ad un animale che saltava,zampettava e cantava.Complimenti per questo video,crudo ma reale.

@eddiehowland After watching the entire clip, I wondered how it ended--looked almost like a stalemate? Nice camera work, appreciate the video and audio.

@gerbilmaster21 Thanks for that. The camera was a Canon XM1. A 3 chip DV camcorder. A bit dated now but an excellent camcorder. I still keep it as a backup. Had items broadcast on TV news and BBC real rescues from it!! Look on my website for more info on my current equipement and to see my usual line of filming, lol.

Did the magpie get away or did it get eaten

Fantastic footage. I have a sparrow hawk at my stable yard, and though have seen it hunting woodpeckers and found its discarded meals when I disturb it, I am yet to see an actual kill. Thanks for sharing!

That´s some seriously good camerawork.

Magpie: "let me go, I'll never kill baby bunnies again I promise.''

Most of the time, smaller "bird hawks" in the Accipiter family, won't tackle such large prey. Just for the sheer fact, especially in the Corvid family of birds, they can and often do fight back viciously. It would be extremely difficult, for a male sharp-shinned hawk, which is much smaller than an American Crow, to tango with a bird that large.

Magpie that's a bit of a struggle for a SPARROWhawk, very unusual behviour.

I did say in earlier comments I did shoot the Magpie when i realised it had no chance. However, this is nature, so how long should you leave it before you intervene?

Fantastic footage!

we had a sparrow hawk do this in our garden, wasn't pretty but its a rare thing to see in person, nice work getting your camera on it!

How did it end??

U are right... sometimes people forget that animals are not what we see in disney's movies.. stop humanising animals and love them for what they are. Thanks for posting this clip. p.s. I'm pretty sure u haven't feel that great looking at the show ;)

That's one of the most amazing videos here, I watched it time and time again wondering how such a small raptor could have a go at one of the most widespread and dangerous passerines in Europe. I walked my dog out the other day and saw a raptor - pigeon sized, flying away with a blackbird. I keep on wondering whether it could have been a male Sparrowhawk - it was very similar to a Wood Pigeon. It flew ever so low, virtualy at 2ft off the ground and very close to my flat. Could it be possible?

At some moments in the vid, it was as if that sparrowhawk looked straight at you like, "What are YOU looking at?!"