Thanks for watching and commenting - Crows feathers do have some iridescence - Common Grackles and European Starlings share in that coloration that shows up best in bright sunlight.
Good morning WR C and thanks for the clip. I like very much. The crows are very inteligent. There are good pets. A friend had a pet crow, was teaching it to say some words. Stay safe and your family too.
Bird owners are so careless and ignorant free flying their birds outdoors, or letting the pet roam free on a outdoor door open cage. Hawks in general, and especially Cooper's can ruin a day. It would almost be like running a lap dog off leash near the alligator canal.
A Cooper's Hawk will realize that crows are tricky to catch! And the crows know how clumsy juveniles are! That's probably the first hawk these crows have seen swooping on them in a long time!
The Sparrowhawk is a bird of prey that's native to Europe and Asia. This was recorded in the US! This is in fact a Cooper's Hawk! There's also Red Shouldered Hawks in some of these videos too, which is another bird you won't find in the eastern seaboard.
Fortunately, the hawks are rarely successful (at least on cam) - we have seen them catch a dove and an injured goldfinch but those are rare events. There are 52 hawk clips in this playlist - ru-vid.com/group/PLFOVGQN9a8e8hSIrjG2iIBF1DBrURrc_c
Hmm, it seems to me that this hawk is a Cooper's Hawk. By the way, those hawks do eat crows! Some of those crows didn't even care, that's crazy! It seems that the one's that were preoccupied doing something were the one's that decided to stay. In this scenario, those crows just wanted to drink some water, and that's exactly what they did!
I have seen a hawk in my neighborhood kill a crow, but it had to abandon it because it got mobbed by about 20 crows immediately after attacking. It was quite a raucous scene! I guess with crows vs hawks it’s safety in numbers.
It must have been an extreme battle for both the crow and the hawk! Sometimes, it can a fight to the death, and that's what happened right there. They were just equally matched.
Scott's great cam quality make capturing good videos easy. The "entertainment" is endless - lol. Check out the new baby skunks from last night - Pami was busy recording...
The leggings say it's a Cooper's hawk. Cooper's are definitely capable of dispatching and eating crows. This one acts like an inexperienced juvenile. He didn't fly in to kill. He flew in to look. Adult Cooper's only come in to kill. The crows are probably familiar with this beginner Cooper's hawk. They are.
@@georgehunter2813 The juvenile Cooper's hawk had been seen numerous times around the time of this video. The crows were definitely used to seeing the inexperienced juvenile...
The hawks have caught a couple of birds on camera - those captures are among this playlist of 54 hawk videos - ru-vid.com/group/PLFOVGQN9a8e8hSIrjG2iIBF1DBrURrc_c
Hawk must be practicing dive bombing technique on "I could care less" crows Beautiful birds. What kind of hawk is he? After looking at pics, I think it is a Cooper's hawk juvenile.
Surprisingly, the crows pretty much intimidate even the adult hawks - the crows are pretty big birds - Check this out - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mdBTYR47puU.html
@@WRCatBWHQ ...that's a good one too. Yeah, crows are really smart and stout. Probably equal intelligence if not smarter than the sparrow hawk. But I've seen blue Jay's torment a crow, usually in flight from slightly above the crow. All in all, I believe the sparrow hawk can get a crow if it wants one
@@thehammer6675 I think my country has the biggest crows in the world (pied crows I think, I may be wrong), but they are as big as your average raven. I've seen them fly somewhat close to this eagle-like bird (hawk, falcon, don't know) and they're pretty much the same size (South Africa)
Sparrowhawk is also called a kestrel, which is a kind of falcon. This looks to be an immature Cooper's Hawk to me -- wide white tail band and thicker tarsi and toes relative to body size. It could be a Sharp-shinned, but it is one of those two -- an accipiter, not a falconid.
@@AnimalsandInfotainmentTube In general, the common name "sparrowhawk" has been applied to the same species as the common name "American Kestrel". As indicated by the scientific name, Falco sparverius, where the 'sparverius' is basically the Latin word for "sparrow". I don't know what other hawk or falcon species you are otherwise using the term "sparrowhawk" for. Just saying, as an ornithologist of 30 years and a birdwatcher for longer than that...
@@AnimalsandInfotainmentTube OK, I see the issue. But this one was in Ohio, USA, and so very unlikely to be Accipiter nisus. Very similar to our Cooper's (Accipiter cooperii) and Sharp-shinned (Accipiter striatus) Hawks though!
