4 February 2025
Bald eagles are prime predators who will eat crow nestlings, fledglings and unwary adults if the chance arises, so crows be taught from a really younger age to be careful for eagles.
Even within the nest younger crows hear and see their mother and father drive off hawks and eagles. Of their first yr of life, which they spend with their mother and father, they be taught the principles of harassment.
- When a lone crow sees an avian predator he perches prominently and requires reinforcements.
- When his buddies arrive the crows work as a mob to drive away the predator.
- When the state of affairs is acute and the mob is left behind, a solo crow could harass an eagle although he’s the one one left. Generally he does one thing daring.
Ten years in the past photographer Phoo Chan went to the shore at Seabeck, Washington to {photograph} the bald eagles who arrive in giant quantity in the course of the midshipman fish run (Porichthys sp). He was very fortunate to seize photographs of a lone crow driving on an eagle’s again. See extra in his article beneath.
Crows maintain the world protected for crows. 😉
