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Great tit hawk

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  • #2
    Desmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Desmo


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Seen this video posted on falconry forum and left me baffled
    Seems blue tits have a taste for sparrows
    http://www.iltasanomat.fi/videot/kotimaa/vid-1288538785461.html
    Also not for squeamish

    Insane. Wildly unexpected.
    It is great tit and redpoll which are actually pretty close in size but it is still astounding.
    Blue tit and sparrow would be a david and goliath match up.


  • #3
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Pretty incredible footage though
    The great tit the new sparrowhawk?


  • #4
    V_Moth
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    I think this is the same Great Tit which was recorded killing 20 Redpolls and a Yellowhammer in southern Finland.


  • #5
    Mickeroo
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    A case of avian insanity? :eek:


  • #6
    kylith
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    Wow. Just think, if this trait is passed on to its offspring in a couple of million years we could be looking at a new species of predatory tits!


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  • #7
    swifts need our help!
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    Great tits have also learnt to kill hibernating bats and eat the brain just like this one did to the Redpoll


  • #8
    recedite
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    According to this article, Great Tits have been proudly cracking open skulls since 1899.
    But they must really hate sunflower seeds. The fight in that video took place on a carpet of uneaten sunflower seeds.


  • #9
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Looking at pics of great tit the size of their feet they are well capable to be a predator towards other birds


  • #10
    swifts need our help!
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    like this


  • #11
    Kess73
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    swifts need our help! wrote: »
    Great tits have also learnt to kill hibernating bats and eat the brain just like this one did to the Redpoll



    Yep, there are many cases of Great Tits attacking bats and smaller birds. Not a common sight in Ireland, but GTs in other parts of Europe have been predating on bats/other birds for a very long time.


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  • #12
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Seems great tits enjoy the odd bat every now an then aswell
    These birds are like little sparrowhawks
    http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/09/09/great-tits-murderous-rapacious/


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