Magpies are badass, I have a respect for those creatures.. Many times when I'd be out hunting doves and pigeons, the magpies would often follow me and challenge me lol.
They knew what my intentions were, they looked so impressive that I could not see any reason to shoot one.
Magpies are pretty fearless, you atleast gotta admire them for that. They will take on a hawk any day even though hawks are much stronger. The magpie will fight it to its very last breath. I've seen it several times.... and no, the hawks don't always win. I've had to dispose of a dead hawk from my back yard that was the looser of a battle with a magpie.
@powvang92 Well it's kinda sad but magpies multiply like rabbits. If you have ever lived in a magpie area as I have you would undestand. They are also very NOISEY birds. Find a plastic pill bottle full of large pills or vatimins and shake it as hard as you can back and forth. That is the noise that magpies make but 10 times louder. And they are very aggressive, they swoop down out of trees and attack people constantly. Personally I like them though lol. They are also very funny.
What is all this dumb nonsense being spouted here ?
It is man that constantly screws up the environment , overloads its carrying capacity by overbreeding.
Raptors have had to endure a long history of persecution ,certainly here in the UK.
And when man interferes trouble follows upsetting balances set up over thousands of years. Witness the need for the deer culls here and kangaroo . Because the predator of these species the wolf and marsupial wolf were hunted to extinction.
takharov: Your comment is part of what I'm talking about. I ask for proof, nobody complies--they only bash.
Luckily, I know how to research. I did it just now, looking up informational sites like Birds of Britain. For example, Sparrowhawks WERE NOT "persecuted" by hunters. They WERE, however, victims of use of insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing in the 1950s. Their population has since recovered, however.
You are absolutely right..Here in the UK they have recoverd a little too much as where i live there are quite a lot of sparrow hawks and they are attacking and killing just about any bird they can get a hold of!
umm, in regards to magpies and crows - Magpies are a type of crow. Crows come in a variety of shapes and sizes beyond simple black. Jays and Crows (as in Blue Jays) are closely related as well.
Members of the Crow family are considered the most intelligent of birds and have proven able to learn things as quickly as a human and even are able to construct tools custom to a specific task. Chimps can't do that!
they constantly attack me and yes i could personally walk around killing them, gladly too. but i would be breaking the law... people love magpies, yet im sure they have never seen their brothers brutally attacked and their own bodies been badly injured for coming to his aid. we were hospitalized at 4 and 5 years old... he was 5. if it wasnt for my mum we would prb be dead... think about that before you go around saying they are the best. the bird wasnt even moved, let alone killed.
theres alot of urban tree hugging hippies that live in the city and know nothing about the countryside. may your ear holes turn to arse holes and shit over your best suit! you know who you are.
I hate magpies, one time a robin flew into my window and was stunned for about two seoncds, that was all the time it took for two magpies to jump out of a tree and kill it, they didn't even eat the robin, they just left it.
i once saw a sparrow hawk with a magpie in its talons outside my house, it was a sight to behold, but thats not all. the magpie's flock were helping it, by cawwing into the hawks face and pecking its wings, the magpie was tenacious and would not give up, until finally it broke free and the hawk went hungry. i wanted to see the hawk win because in Ireland magpies are seen as pests. they carry disease from eating dead rats and chase off other birds such as the native crow and small song birds.
That's extremely stupid. Magpies do not carry diseases, on the contrary they protect us from diseases by eating dead animals before they start rotting.
The magpies chase crows when they have eggs or offspring to protect. Crows eat young birds and eggs, you know!
Magpies chase some other birds away from their area so that their offspring will have food to eat!!
Don't forget that magpies protect each other, something which is admirable. Hawks are lonely.
That's also stupid! You accuse magpies for something that humans do for thousands and thousands of years! Don't you eat eggs, small cows or small lamps?
Yes, sometimes magpies eat eggs, but this happens when the other birds don't protect their nest or when they leave their offspring die.
What about hawks? They also eat young birds. Eagles, that most people admire, may even eat baby humans. That's nature!. Is your gun the solution to every "problem". You are worse than all magpies on earth!
With all due respect please do not comment on subjects you know very little about.The european magpie is very different to your American magpie....I am big into conservation and there is not enough space on youtube to go into the carnage carrion crows and magpies do to breeding birds...My message to the magpie in the video is WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!!
koravius: Use some common sense, and not arguments like "You're no better because you eat cows and eggs!!!1!!!1"
Magpies and crows are despised by farmers because they steal their FOOD and cause damage of up to millions of US dollars, IF not more. That's plenty reason to hate and hunt them.
It's also not so simple a reason as magpies and crows eating wildlife. Rather, it's that crows are a direct competitor to and endanger a species of animal that people want to protect.
ummmm so you are choosing magpies against your own species??? if someone picks fights with us as a species then we should be allowed to fight back... do you live in Australia?because if you do then you would know we have laws against attacking them, yet they are allowed to attack us as much as they want... one half blinded my brother with no repercussions, we had to fight to become top of the food chain, yet we are still pushed around by magpies!!!! discussion closed.
i was fishing one day as i was about to come over a little hill on foot,unknown to these creatures a hawk hit a magpie in mid air, i pick up the magpies feather up,and look on, i never seen that ever happen before,bit of an air battle went on but i think magpie went down
i was in my living room one time, just watching tv, and i heard a big thud on my door. I looked outside and a hawk was on top of a big crow. the hawk was a baby and it still killed it. it was really cool
I think magpies are beautyful and funny. I hate it when they try to attack "my" starlings in the bird houses though. But we must remember the magpies and sea gulls are here for a reason. They eat garbage and cadavers clean up in the nature. Please dont forget that.
Oh, I agree they must be "controlled". But by nature, not humans. If there were more hawks around there would be a lot less magpies:) And why is it illegal to hunt hawks? Because we have "controlled" them too! Hunted them to have neat little suvenirs by the fireplace or destroyed their surroundings.
Predator populations are controlled naturally by availability of prey. 'Pies are opportunists and have become very cheeky with it. Now we can sit back and do nothing but we will lose many songbirds. Man and not nature has enabled the 'pie to become so successful so we must control them.
Zid you are right but you will never convince some people that we need to fix the problem that I agree we caused by being garbage creating machines and forest destroying machines so less nesting area for songbirds and more food for pies and crows where we live are out of control. Nature had it right and we messed it up now if left unattended you could see some songbirds disappear and the pies and crows aren't going anywhere or if they do you can have my crows listen to my video you hear crows.
freddyfast9: That is why it's necessary to control the population of magpies and crows, in addition to creating habitats for songbirds.
From a religious standpoint, we are stewards of the Earth. We have the right to grow and kill as we see fit, but we have the responsibility to maintain nature.
we've got to correct for the impact we've had on nature. We can't just sit back and take the "hands off" animal rights viewpoint of TheMission707 and koravirus. Else, there will be no nature left.
TheMission707: Show me evidence that humans hunted hawks to near extinction.
I've tried searching for information on your claims and found absolutely NOTHING.
What I have found is a long history of hawks working with humans in falconry. Only occasionally are hawks killed by humans, and are often at the mercy of the law for doing so, even if they did it to protect their pets.
its easy to tell the outcome first off, thats a falcon im pretty sure, and second i think the falcon was hunting that other bird as you can see his talons are in his chest and neck. magpies really dont have talons that are ment for killing...and if the magpie somehow won or escaped it will prolly bleed out and die in a matter of minutes
That is 100% a Female Sparrow hawk. They hunt a variety of prey but it's "usually" only the female that's capable of hunting larger birds like Magpie and Pigeons. As you can see the Hawk is having a hard time despatching the magpie. They usually prefer smaller birds like Black Birds, Starlings and Sparrows.
I would of picked them up and put them on my dining table for a better view.
LyleVertigo 2 months ago
Magpies are badass, I have a respect for those creatures.. Many times when I'd be out hunting doves and pigeons, the magpies would often follow me and challenge me lol.
They knew what my intentions were, they looked so impressive that I could not see any reason to shoot one.
brujero13 2 months ago
even magpies wipe out species (wich is nonsense) if we really ar humans we dont interfere because there is no right for us to do it....
malte2904 9 months ago
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brennan2k9 11 months ago
@itb4life oh okay now i know thanks for the info
powvang92 11 months ago
Magpies are pretty fearless, you atleast gotta admire them for that. They will take on a hawk any day even though hawks are much stronger. The magpie will fight it to its very last breath. I've seen it several times.... and no, the hawks don't always win. I've had to dispose of a dead hawk from my back yard that was the looser of a battle with a magpie.
1tb4life 1 year ago 9
@DeanWWins oh thanks..im from oroville California so i don't heard about magpie that much..
powvang92 1 year ago
what so bad about magpies?someone tell me?
powvang92 1 year ago 7
@powvang92 They steal eggs of songbird's nests :<.
DeanWWins 1 year ago
What the ƒuck man? I bet you steal eggs from someone's nest, too!
burteriksson 11 months ago
@powvang92 Well it's kinda sad but magpies multiply like rabbits. If you have ever lived in a magpie area as I have you would undestand. They are also very NOISEY birds. Find a plastic pill bottle full of large pills or vatimins and shake it as hard as you can back and forth. That is the noise that magpies make but 10 times louder. And they are very aggressive, they swoop down out of trees and attack people constantly. Personally I like them though lol. They are also very funny.
1tb4life 1 year ago
it'd be good if a fox turned up on the action. double servings!
godkingRoss 1 year ago
Why are there always people who think every animal live in america? These are Europian birds
JackyNickelson 1 year ago 3
The magpie won, I was there when he had to go.
tinkyshearer 1 year ago
gooo hawk
QMyMax 1 year ago
what kind of hawk is it?
MrBullsh1t 1 year ago
@MrBullsh1t
a dead hawk.
tinkyshearer 1 year ago
IT'S LIKE AVIAN MMA.
BolonoakSaman 1 year ago
:'( poor magpie !! DIE HAWK
jannefredriksson 1 year ago
Wow
peacemtn 1 year ago
who won
paintballchamp11 1 year ago
Thats a Kestrel.
gymlord 2 years ago
Hawk is definitely winning this one. Common hawk tactic; he's just hanging on while the magpie wears himself out. Hawk can be patient for his dinner.
KippTheKidd 2 years ago
Stupid magpies...
Snakesown9955 2 years ago
road warrior Hawk is extinct.
Trashfished 2 years ago
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Good job....too many Magpies destroy our songbird population....A balance is needed....
kaeso100 2 years ago 8
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What is all this dumb nonsense being spouted here ?
It is man that constantly screws up the environment , overloads its carrying capacity by overbreeding.
Raptors have had to endure a long history of persecution ,certainly here in the UK.
And when man interferes trouble follows upsetting balances set up over thousands of years. Witness the need for the deer culls here and kangaroo . Because the predator of these species the wolf and marsupial wolf were hunted to extinction.
takharov 2 years ago
takharov: Your comment is part of what I'm talking about. I ask for proof, nobody complies--they only bash.
Luckily, I know how to research. I did it just now, looking up informational sites like Birds of Britain. For example, Sparrowhawks WERE NOT "persecuted" by hunters. They WERE, however, victims of use of insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing in the 1950s. Their population has since recovered, however.
ThInTrM 2 years ago 5
You are absolutely right..Here in the UK they have recoverd a little too much as where i live there are quite a lot of sparrow hawks and they are attacking and killing just about any bird they can get a hold of!
JODIMAR45 1 year ago 4
umm, in regards to magpies and crows - Magpies are a type of crow. Crows come in a variety of shapes and sizes beyond simple black. Jays and Crows (as in Blue Jays) are closely related as well.
Members of the Crow family are considered the most intelligent of birds and have proven able to learn things as quickly as a human and even are able to construct tools custom to a specific task. Chimps can't do that!
1JONATHAN 2 years ago 12
@1JONATHAN Yes like steal food out of childrens lunch boxes at school
BackyardGeographic 6 months ago
they constantly attack me and yes i could personally walk around killing them, gladly too. but i would be breaking the law... people love magpies, yet im sure they have never seen their brothers brutally attacked and their own bodies been badly injured for coming to his aid. we were hospitalized at 4 and 5 years old... he was 5. if it wasnt for my mum we would prb be dead... think about that before you go around saying they are the best. the bird wasnt even moved, let alone killed.
lewis4522 2 years ago 4
theres alot of urban tree hugging hippies that live in the city and know nothing about the countryside. may your ear holes turn to arse holes and shit over your best suit! you know who you are.
687bacon 2 years ago
I hate magpies, one time a robin flew into my window and was stunned for about two seoncds, that was all the time it took for two magpies to jump out of a tree and kill it, they didn't even eat the robin, they just left it.
Sjamsucks 2 years ago 3
Yeah! UFC gone wild!
double leg locks and submission holds! HAHA!
Jadandlud 2 years ago
As real as it gets !!! Looks like gound and pound in the Magpies Guard.
To bad for the Magpie, the referee is not present ;) !!
Deinonychus6 2 years ago 3
LMFAO
MOBcarclub 2 years ago
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filthy magpie - time to die
VAROrarotonga 3 years ago 12
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Go Go magpie fight for your life!
ReyMysterioRO 3 years ago
Its 50/50 by now ,hawk should win the fight
charlesparenteau 3 years ago
thats incredible.
nature is awesome.
thewretched18 3 years ago 3
i once saw a sparrow hawk with a magpie in its talons outside my house, it was a sight to behold, but thats not all. the magpie's flock were helping it, by cawwing into the hawks face and pecking its wings, the magpie was tenacious and would not give up, until finally it broke free and the hawk went hungry. i wanted to see the hawk win because in Ireland magpies are seen as pests. they carry disease from eating dead rats and chase off other birds such as the native crow and small song birds.
chunkyfucker3 3 years ago
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That's extremely stupid. Magpies do not carry diseases, on the contrary they protect us from diseases by eating dead animals before they start rotting.
The magpies chase crows when they have eggs or offspring to protect. Crows eat young birds and eggs, you know!
Magpies chase some other birds away from their area so that their offspring will have food to eat!!
Don't forget that magpies protect each other, something which is admirable. Hawks are lonely.
koravius 2 years ago
Magpies also eat baby birds and birds eggs...Only the other day one raided a song thrush nest where i work...Wish i'd had my gun handy!
JODIMAR45 2 years ago 6
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That's also stupid! You accuse magpies for something that humans do for thousands and thousands of years! Don't you eat eggs, small cows or small lamps?
Yes, sometimes magpies eat eggs, but this happens when the other birds don't protect their nest or when they leave their offspring die.
What about hawks? They also eat young birds. Eagles, that most people admire, may even eat baby humans. That's nature!. Is your gun the solution to every "problem". You are worse than all magpies on earth!
koravius 2 years ago
With all due respect please do not comment on subjects you know very little about.The european magpie is very different to your American magpie....I am big into conservation and there is not enough space on youtube to go into the carnage carrion crows and magpies do to breeding birds...My message to the magpie in the video is WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!!
JODIMAR45 2 years ago 4
bollocks,what a cretin,should keep such ill informed crap to himself.
andrewheadech 2 years ago
koravius: Use some common sense, and not arguments like "You're no better because you eat cows and eggs!!!1!!!1"
Magpies and crows are despised by farmers because they steal their FOOD and cause damage of up to millions of US dollars, IF not more. That's plenty reason to hate and hunt them.
It's also not so simple a reason as magpies and crows eating wildlife. Rather, it's that crows are a direct competitor to and endanger a species of animal that people want to protect.
Think about it.
ThInTrM 2 years ago 3
ummmm so you are choosing magpies against your own species??? if someone picks fights with us as a species then we should be allowed to fight back... do you live in Australia?because if you do then you would know we have laws against attacking them, yet they are allowed to attack us as much as they want... one half blinded my brother with no repercussions, we had to fight to become top of the food chain, yet we are still pushed around by magpies!!!! discussion closed.
lewis4522 2 years ago 4
i was fishing one day as i was about to come over a little hill on foot,unknown to these creatures a hawk hit a magpie in mid air, i pick up the magpies feather up,and look on, i never seen that ever happen before,bit of an air battle went on but i think magpie went down
danbit5 3 years ago
i was in my living room one time, just watching tv, and i heard a big thud on my door. I looked outside and a hawk was on top of a big crow. the hawk was a baby and it still killed it. it was really cool
ng416 3 years ago
looks like an American female cooper's hawk? The magpie is doomed despite the battle.
erwintommy 3 years ago
of course the hawk won and usually hawks are bigger maybe the hawk was playing with the magpie not trying to kill it
wrx4life44 3 years ago
i would say its a pretty even ground war but in sky its the hawk
Trazor2k0 3 years ago
i think we can all guess the outcome. that spar has it good and proper!
WSPlumber 3 years ago
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fuck that hawk mags rule
athtastic 4 years ago
waznt fighting the raptor waz killin the mag
bettaman94 4 years ago 4
yup-the Mag was fighting for its life
hawk was fighting for dinner
kokumaru 3 years ago
Nice, I hate pies. Help songbirds by shooting them.
zid00001 4 years ago
I think magpies are beautyful and funny. I hate it when they try to attack "my" starlings in the bird houses though. But we must remember the magpies and sea gulls are here for a reason. They eat garbage and cadavers clean up in the nature. Please dont forget that.
TheMission707 4 years ago
I knew someone would say that but when I was a lad (here we go !) magpies were quite rare where I live.
The population has exploded over the last twenty or so years and it is no coincidence that there are fewer songbirds around.
They must be controlled, I'm telling you, before they wipe out some vulnerable species.
zid00001 4 years ago 2
Oh, I agree they must be "controlled". But by nature, not humans. If there were more hawks around there would be a lot less magpies:) And why is it illegal to hunt hawks? Because we have "controlled" them too! Hunted them to have neat little suvenirs by the fireplace or destroyed their surroundings.
TheMission707 4 years ago
Predator populations are controlled naturally by availability of prey. 'Pies are opportunists and have become very cheeky with it. Now we can sit back and do nothing but we will lose many songbirds. Man and not nature has enabled the 'pie to become so successful so we must control them.
zid00001 4 years ago 2
and who will control "us"?
pikechris1 3 years ago
Zid you are right but you will never convince some people that we need to fix the problem that I agree we caused by being garbage creating machines and forest destroying machines so less nesting area for songbirds and more food for pies and crows where we live are out of control. Nature had it right and we messed it up now if left unattended you could see some songbirds disappear and the pies and crows aren't going anywhere or if they do you can have my crows listen to my video you hear crows.
freddyfast9 2 years ago 2
freddyfast9: That is why it's necessary to control the population of magpies and crows, in addition to creating habitats for songbirds.
From a religious standpoint, we are stewards of the Earth. We have the right to grow and kill as we see fit, but we have the responsibility to maintain nature.
we've got to correct for the impact we've had on nature. We can't just sit back and take the "hands off" animal rights viewpoint of TheMission707 and koravirus. Else, there will be no nature left.
ThInTrM 2 years ago 3
TheMission707: Show me evidence that humans hunted hawks to near extinction.
I've tried searching for information on your claims and found absolutely NOTHING.
What I have found is a long history of hawks working with humans in falconry. Only occasionally are hawks killed by humans, and are often at the mercy of the law for doing so, even if they did it to protect their pets.
ThInTrM 2 years ago 5
it was a sparrow hawk
basil1200 4 years ago
were they stuk together fr sum reason?
wtfninjaboy1222 4 years ago
yes I glued them.
dasquirrel715 4 years ago 6
lol
wtfninjaboy1222 4 years ago
that was a spar wasnt it? female spar?
plumbrite 4 years ago
its easy to tell the outcome first off, thats a falcon im pretty sure, and second i think the falcon was hunting that other bird as you can see his talons are in his chest and neck. magpies really dont have talons that are ment for killing...and if the magpie somehow won or escaped it will prolly bleed out and die in a matter of minutes
quickbarn 4 years ago
Not a Falcon it's a Sparrow Hawk.
Gibbsy007 4 years ago
You should have filmed it at least 2 minute!
giantfoottruck 4 years ago
is a good video, but that hawk is a bad boy he need fight wiht gen, roster or male turkey, they are strongs birds.
genaromalditoloco 5 years ago
what was the outcome
amacordvan 5 years ago
That is 100% a Female Sparrow hawk. They hunt a variety of prey but it's "usually" only the female that's capable of hunting larger birds like Magpie and Pigeons. As you can see the Hawk is having a hard time despatching the magpie. They usually prefer smaller birds like Black Birds, Starlings and Sparrows.
love2learn 3 years ago