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Mr Mag getting some pay back for some of those nest he’s robbed over the years !

Every bird is gangsta until sparrowhawk shows up

Having pie in your name is asking for trouble

Lol I’m sure that Magpie destroyed some smaller birds of its own. Now it’s doing the screaming. Food chain just leveled up

Cries of agony are the same in any language, even non-human language.

Pretty grim viewing but absolutely first rate camera work, absolutely pin sharp and great light. Well done!

When street thug meet professional killer..

Those Magpies are pests that kill baby birds I'm glad the Hawk made a meal out of one of them

Unfortunately for the magpie. That was a long struggle! Great capture! That's how nature works.

A couple of points: 1) This is nowhere near as rare as people seem to think - prey will sometimes fight back, and its worth the energy investment to keep going for the SH; 2) Nature is not cruel. There is no morality to it. Nature is indifferent

Really great capture. Thank you for sharing. Sparrowhawks are truly amazing predators! They are fast, beautiful and absolutely stunning! This is the female - able to take magpies down!

I'm lucky to have both sparrowhawks and magpies in the garden , and as brutal as ot may seem it no less than what a magpie does to most songbirds fledglings.. Excellent footage...

It was difficult to watch, I couldn’t even finish, nature is super brutal

If the hawk could speak - it would be saying "for goodness sake keep still while I'm trying to eat you - you're not helping"

I literally once watched a pair of magpies ransack and kill a whole nest of pigeon chicks literally a few days old I know it’s nature but even I was taken back because there wasn’t even a meal for one between the whole nest so I call this karma 👍🏻

I LOVE this! I play it on my pool deck & it scares the incredibly loud & irritating nesting Cardinals away! Thank You!

Right on the upper limit of a female sparrow hawks abilities !! You can see how tired she is and how long it takes to subdue the magpie. Nature raw in tooth and claw !!

One of the most interesting and clear shots I've ever seen!

Payback for all those nest invasions ! What goes around ... Comes around . 😈

Normally, the sparrowhawk will try to avoid this kind of fight, by just hanging on with talons, essentially smothering the prey, but the magpie is much too big for this tactic, not it's normal prey, and the hawk attacks what it can get at, and still avoid being struck by the beak, or feet, of the magpie...as others have noted, this is life for the sparrowhawk, death for the magpie.

It’s a great capture, yes, but I don’t get why people like to add stupid comments on the noises that an animal of fear and pain makes. Or even makes fun of the dying magpie. Kind of scary that people like watching animals that are in agony. I find it hard to watch and didn‘t till the end but of course I am happy for the hawk having success & a big meal.

Great footage. Magpies do this to other ani Animals too.

Amazing footage and a rare case where a sparrow hawk pushes the limits of his catch size

I'm so glad the person filming this understood this is nature and didn't try to shoo the hawk off. People don't realise how many of it's hunt result in nothing and how much energy it uses as graphic as this might seem this is nature.

I think I do realize is that when a bird is "pinned" down, the only thing is left is it had to use its wing for defense &/or block of an attack.

Yes. That young female sparrowhawk was probably very desperate to commit to such a energy draining fight. I hope she was left in piece to feed fully without disturbance

" nothing like a fresh meal" she looked rejuvenated almost immediately

I like the way the Sparrow Hawk kept ripping out the Magpie's chest! .\ ^ /.

Whoah! the sound of pulling feathers is so satisfying! This sparrowhawk is well experienced as you can see that it holds the magpie's head to prevent it from fighting back

One of the best predator & prey videos on RU-vid!

Reminder that magpies are also predatory to other bird nests

Anyone who has seen what crows, magpies etc do to lambs, won't mind this at all.

Good sparrowhawk, one air bastard at a time!

Welcome to the paradise magpie

I'm traumatised

The sparrowhawk looks so pissed off lol. “Stay still!”

Great struggle and quite surprising, the sparrowhawk chose a magpie. Even a pigeon would be easier prey, and theres plenty of them about. Too many magpies round here but our sparrowhawk prefers smaller birds usually.

Is it weird to say that I actually enjoyed watching the Magpie get destroyed?

i hope the sparrowhawk managed to eat its fill of the magpie to replace all the energy spent subduing it great video as well

Note to self thank god I'm not a magpie, such a savage way to go 😭

Man those sparrowhawks are not to be underestimated!! Magpies are a big aggressive bird.. Literally eaten alive!!!

Beautiful! 🤩 I hate magpies

Sparrowhawks are the top predator in my book for their size, often come across them devouring poor blackbirds/pigeons .Awesome but very fortunate bit of filming .

Great capture, one of the best I’ve seen! The sparrowhawk is a fearless and formidable hunter. Unfortunate for the magpie

Man how lucky were you to be able to film this! Shame you didn't catch the strike too.

Awesome footage the Magpie sounds like a Cat on acid! 👍

Great sound!

Such a change from seeing a mobbing of crows on a buzzard I saw today

Excellent shot by the way. Must've been a hungry sparrowhawk to not abandon a catch.

The plumage on the Magpie is truly stunning. I can see the most gorgeous blue hues. So sad when animals get killed.

I've witnessed this a number of times. Once a blackbird, once a woodpecker, once a dove the hawk drowned in a stream. It's pretty grim to see and hard not to want to intervene.

Merciless. That must be one hell of a grip.

Desperately hungry immature female sparrowhawk has life depending fight with magpie. She is so hungry she allows you to film her. She never destroyed it by any means. That was a fight for life. She just about won. She's down on her luck for sure. I hope she survives the rest of the winter, and advise all who watch this to keep their distance if they are ever lucky enough to witness such an event.

I adopted a magpie two years ago and today an eagle took him. My family is very heartbroken. I'll never have another pet again. Too much drama.

Live by the beak, die by the beak.

that magpie tried hard to survive, surprised the other magpies didn't help but i guess you were in the way - get video and plenty magpies to eat

A well captured video, You was very lucky to get the chance to observe and film this. It can be a little distressing for some people, but its nature and it's been going on for thousands of years. Magpies terrorize the local nature, so in a way its got it's comeuppance...

Very Brutal. Wish I could have seen the beginning how the magpie got in that situation.

This is bizarre, only yesterday I spotted a male sparrowhawk perched on my garden fence here in Cwmbran, a large town in South Wales. We boder a narrow strip iof woodland that follows the Afon Lywydd river through the town. He was on the fence for about 10 minutes (these are only small gardens on the backs of a line of terraced houses), Ive had just about everything visit our bird tables from Woodpeckers to various finches and tits but never a bird of prey. However what eventually scared him off was a very loud and confident Magpie who literally almost bumped him off the fence. However to be fair, the Male Sparrowhawk is smaller than the female such as the female in this clip shows. Nature is very cruel, I believe more than anyone that predators obviously have the right to live as the preyed upon, but when ever I see an animal 'caught' by a predator, be it Orcas catching seals Or a leopard with a deer/antelope or even this, a Lowly Magpie in the clutches of a beautifulRaptor I just always wish that death could be delivered swiftly. Naivety I suppose as real life just isnt like that!

@ 3:56 - did any else notice hearing the magpies in the background alarm calling. When they take their prey, the reason the hawk looks around very anxiously every few seconds is because normally when the corvids see a sparrowhawk kill they descend on the scene and start hassling the hawk so it will clear off any they can then steal the kill - so the hawk spends 1/2 its time killing the prey and the other 1/2 the time making sure it doesn't get it's meal knicked.

that is how it goes in nature sometimes we see images of how a magpie, for example, robs a blackbird nest. Compared magpie and blackbird, the magpie is many times stronger and in this case, of course, the sparrowhawk. Greetings

Mr Hawk is saying “ shut your mouth I don’t want to hear it , you had your chance to pay up “

Normally crows or magpies are protect each other if one of them has a trouble. Very social and intelligent birds. This one, hadn't much luck.

BRUTALITY! HAWK WINS! FLAWLESS VICTORY!

Poor Magpie, I always hate seeing animals suffer like this.

See that!? THIS is my leg now! Totally my leg. Mm! 🍗 😅

Poor guy, nature is so cruel.😥

No more robbing nests for that magpie

I can't see it sorry 🥺 it's just too hard for me, that shocks me. So sorry, though magnificent capture and totally ok for the sparrowhawk - nature is always ok in it's meaning. But 😥😭

Me hoping it’s the magpie that attacked me

Now I know the true horrors of getting your garden birds snatched by a sparrowhawk. I fear for the fledglings, but such is nature. :(

God. Reminds me of something I read about some psychopath tearing people's skin with pliers. There aren't any animal species that don't have to kill something else to live. Even bacteria and viruses have to find some living thing to fester in. Even plants try to crowd each other out to get to the sunlight. Nature is brutal, end of story. Very beautiful, and yet nasty and brutal underneath the beauty.

Akin to watching a leopard dispatch a tough guard dog, the guard dog (magpie) may be a tough & noisy bully, but the leopard (like the sparrow hawk) is a fully equipped & experienced silent assassin.

Yes, the sparrow hawk is a very dangerous bird, but the most lethal bird of prey is the peregrine falcon.

That's like a UFC fight.

There are a number of comments here describing magpies as evil and nasty etc. My mother-in-law in Sweden used to throw out food for birds but shoo away crows and magpies. I thought there would be more respect, understanding and acceptance for all species in our enlightened age but some people still live in the dark ages apparently.

Sparrowhawk's gotta eat too

The magpie is still alive but eaten to death… This looks like a brutal torture . 😨

An appropriate title would be. A desperately hungry Sparrowhawk fight for survival.

That’s brutal but nature.

"Killing me softly with his song" err claws..🎶

I saw a video of a magpie killing baby chicks. Maybe the hawk is getting revenge.

How the hell is this fascinating. How anybody can watch this ill never know.

"Mr. and Ms. Blackbird send their regards."

that's a big catch! magpies are among my favorite birds, but a bird's gotta eat.

I was thinking that scavenger invaded the wrong nest and paid the price

Ripping out feathers is like ripping out fingernails. Extremely painful.

It's where the Old Norse phrase "grof til hjarta" comes from.

That sparrowhawk is as brutal a thing as I ever see.

The hawk was saying “shut up shuttin up”

In Korea for example the absence of predators allowed the magpie population to grow over the limit. Result: they eat all other birds nests resulting in astonishing lack of diversity, birds wise

Makes a change, seeing a Magpie becoming a victim of another bird.

Well time for a mukbang from a sparrowhawk lol.

I wonder, at what moment the magpie realized.. he fcked up

“Help he’s murdering me”

surprised the magpie had such little strength against it

Heckyl and Jeckyl are in trouble.

Death from birds is so painful because they dont kill before eating but they eat it alive… creepier than lions or crocodiles

Magpie is like "You're eating me alive"...Sparrowhawk is like "Stop squawking and take it like a magpie"..🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭🤭

5:55 You know it's over when he pins magpies head but there's a video somewhere on RU-vid where a magpie wouldn't stop screaming so sparrowhawk dragged it over to a pool of water and drowned it