Pinwheel
144 posts
Mar 05, 2010
1:15 PM
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I was wondering where exactly does a hawk grab a bird and is it the same everytime? Is it mostly by the back?
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michael salus
154 posts
Mar 05, 2010
2:12 PM
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Where ever it can get a hold of it!!! I know from looking at leftovers they eat the meat off the back 1st and I always thought it was the breast...
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MJ
Last Edited by on Mar 06, 2010 5:44 AM
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Pogohawk
39 posts
Mar 05, 2010
5:11 PM
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It varies. Typically they will go for neck and breast area. It also depends on how hungry the BOP is. I have seen them only eat the good meat, and I have seen them eat every thing whole. If you are wondering where they get them in the air, a falcon will use its beak tooth (not the egg cracking kind) to break the neck of its prey in the air. Normally all falcon kills are dead before they hit the ground. Hawk and eagles are different. They will grasp the quarry wherever possible until they fatally puncture the internal organs with there talons. All BOP will begin consuming their kills before they are dead, so long as the animal is thoroughly subdued.
Last Edited by on Mar 05, 2010 5:14 PM
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Squabby*32
207 posts
Mar 05, 2010
10:51 PM
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From my limited experience, the falcons grabbed them on the back and the hawks did not really care how it grabbed them.
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DJJeffman Spinners
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wannaroll
149 posts
Mar 06, 2010
7:39 AM
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I've seen falcons rotate their prey as they are flying. I have had lots of birds come back from Falcon attacks. I have watched them fly out of site with my birds and somehow they lose them before they land. On the other hand the Coopers tend to take them to the ground and dispatch them rather quick. They don't let go as easy. Sometimes if you see them go down you can run over there and save your bird before the cooper finishes it. I had a young bird get caught by a prairie falcon and my resident Cooper hen chased the falcon and I got the bird back. The cooper wasn't worried about the pigeon it just wanted the falcon out of it's territory.
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Dave - Hesperia, CA.
(San Bernardino Mountain Spinners)
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steve49
452 posts
Mar 06, 2010
5:43 PM
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when you think about how territorial most bop's are, if one could train a bop, such as pogohawk, and fly it prior to releasing his rollers, it might in fact chase off any lurking coopers.
when Dave mentioned the resident cooper chasing off a prairie falcon it got me thinking. as long as the trained falcon or whatever is more interested in defending its territory, it might work.
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Steve in Blue Point, NY
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