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I might would have intervened, too. But in my case, the initial predator got ambushed by a larger predator. It almost seemed life a microcosm of the world played out before my very eyes via wildlife.
I do rescue and normally dont intervene but that dove...it put up such a fight...i had to intervene!
OP, when I worked in the Everglades, I saw a ton of bird fights. A lot of times the smaller birds would beat up on the larger birds...definitely a show. They would also ambush people if they were nesting and they thought you got too close...even if their nest was 20 feet up and you couldn't reach it.
So I was looking out on the patio, and noticed a bit of disturbance going on in a bush. A large black bird flew into the bush, and was kinda poking around. However, there were smaller, brown birds in the bush and in the vicinity of the bush. One of the brown birds appeared to try to disrupt the black bird's poking around. The black bird flew out, and then flew back in and started poking around again, and the smaller brown birds appeared visibly distraught.
Out of nowhere, a large brown bird flies into the bush a high rate of speed (it was almost like a blur), and the black bird and large brown bird disappeared after a short fracas of some sort.
10 minutes later I see the large brown bird flying into nearby woods with what appeared to be the black bird in its talons.
The thing is, I don't think the brown bird is the same species as the smaller brown birds... they just didn't look the same. I was thinking maybe the big brown bird is a hawk.
Ugh... I need answers. lol!
Sounds like a Coopers Hawk nailed a crow. Coopers are big time bird hunters. Google images of it.
Word gets around when these raptors are in the neighborhood. Every now and then a hawk will pick a bird off the feeder and we won't see any birds for a couple of days!
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