Rook thinks its a Spar!

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I was watching a group of Starlings picking ants out of a small ant hill in my garden earlier,
A large Rook flew low across and unsettled them, to the trees.
The Rook perched on a house roof a few yards away, and the starlings returned.
A few seconds later, the Rook swooped down, split the small flock and chased a young starling out of sight, behind the tree's.
Whether or not it caught it don't know, but it was acting like a very clumsy Spar.

I've seen Rooks attack a rat or two, in the past, but never small healthy birds, certainly not in this fashion.

Curious..
 
I have never seen or heard of that behaviour.

However, all the corvids are brighter than the average bird.

Once, many years ago, I saw a magpie just ambling about close to a group of house sparrow suddenly lunge, grab one and beat it on the ground before flying off with it. Maybe the rook was just giving it a go.

Alternatively the corvids appear to have, and I'm being anthropomorphic here, a sense of fun, eg ravens just tumbling over in flight and flapping about upside down for a while.

Dave
 
Saw a rook with a collared dove once, it was pecking it around the head, flew off as I approached then came back and killed the dove and flew off with it,
I assumed at the time that the dove was probably already injured but reading this perhaps not
 
I knew most of that TBH, but thanks for posting it :thumbs:
 
Saw a kill a Magpie once with another Rook keeping lookout.

Trevor LP
 
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