Were they fighting the deer for the downed waxwings? Nature is pretty gory
sometimes.
Judy Kestner
Corpus Christi
---- Ian Layton <ilayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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So, please excuse my ignorance, but I have been observing for the first
time (today) a predatory behavior in a population of American Crows, and
wondered if anyone had witnessed any thing similar.
I am on a business trip in a building on an office campus that is in a
mixed forested area. The building is clad in mirrored glass. There are a
large number of Cedar Waxwings in the area at the moment (this is in
Birmingham Alabama). I have witnessed on 5-6 occasions today, 3-4 American
Crows attacking the flock and chasing individual CEDW into the windows.
Once stunned, they then devour the stunned/killed birds.
I assume a learned behavior that has been developed in this "clan" of AMCR
based on the combination of large expanses of mirrored glass and excellent
passerine habitat?
--
Ian Layton
Cedar Creek, Bastrop Co., TX
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