Sparrowhawk eating Dove / Pigeon alive

OK its a pigeon but it the same family as a dove, This was a wild event, I just filmed it. I did not feed the bird to the Sparrowhawk. Also see at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGBJcx9slK4

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Pets & Animals

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• sparrowhawk
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• prey
• wildlife
• nature
• outdoors
• wilderness

[decoymans]

You are welcome to leave coments but not with any swear words, will delete if you do.

[decoymans]

No this is a Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) we don't have coopers hawk in the wild in the United Kingdom.

[Gman6755]

Hey, hawks gotta eat too! Great video!! Sucks to be that dove!

[racingpigeons98]

@Chinchillazilla54 I understand, but it least dont film. Yes nature is nature and their are so many other worse problems than this so it doesnt even matter, its probably dead anyway. Just 2 days ago a hawk caught my pigeon and i saved it and its alive.

[Chinchillazilla54]

@racingpigeons98 Shooing the hawk away will not save the pigeon (it has almost certainly sustained internal injuries when it's caught, and if not its puncture wounds from talons will become infected) and could result in both birds dying slow, painful deaths: one from injury/infection and one from starvation. Unlike falcons (usually), hawks eat their prey alive. Hawks are still just as entitled to life. This pigeon couldn't escape the hawk and would have been eaten eventually. Welcome to nature.

[amysilver12]

Why doesn't that hawk just put that dove out of it's misery, and kil it before it eats! Poor pigeon! pluck it's feathers one at a time makes it worse!

[BuzzDaTower]

Cunt

[BuzzDaTower]

I don't understand why people have a problem with someone filming this? It's just nature!!!

I'm sat in my garden watching Swifts catching flies ALIVE! Should I intervene?

Oh my god! A Black Bird has just eaten a worm ALIVE! Poor worm. Oh no, what's that? It's a cat! OMG it's eaten the Black Bird! Where's my dog off to? Marley NO! Leave the cat! Oh dear. Poor cat.

[racingpigeons98]

@Gman6755 Hawks gotta eat to, but not so it to be filmed. I mean, help the pigeon he will find somewhere else to eat!

[racingpigeons98]

How could you watch the pigeons die?

[racingpigeons98]

How could you watch the pigeons die you@#$%^&#$%.

I have about 70 pigeons and if a hawk comes near, I scream on the top of my lungs so it goes away and you film the whole thing without even helping the pigeons. I mean if the hawk was eating it dead ok, but HE WAS EATING IT ALIVE! Cruel to animals! Yeah nature is nature, but if I saw a hawk eating a LIVE pigeons I would shoo it away. It's common sense you $@#%$.

[JohnGreene444]

@adamf7252 Dude learn, NATURE IS NATURE