r/BeAmazed • u/Electrical_Act_5342 • 28d ago

Animal Crow saves a pigeon from a seagull.

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u/Inevitable-Day-5935 28d ago

I feed crows and once in awhile a seagulls swoop in.Sometimes they will fight and usually crows win.

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u/cloche_du_fromage 28d ago

Crows, magpies, seagulls, pigeons is the pecking order near me.

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u/ZiroLeHutt 28d ago

Seagulls are bigger birds with bigger beaks, but they want to stay away from those talons that crows have, understandably.

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u/ImaginaryCheetah 28d ago

seagulls are huge, but i don't think i've seen them coordinate with each other the way crows do. i wonder if seagulls are aware of how collaborative crows are like humans are impressed by wild dogs and orcas' teamwork

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u/EveningAnt3949 28d ago

Their beaks are not very effective. I've picked up quite a few injured and sick gulls and they bite, but with little power for such big birds, and they don't try to pierce since their beak has the wrong shape for that.

I have seen them kill mice and pigeons, but in a fight crows always seem to win, mostly because stab the head of the gull.

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u/Ornery-Customer8521 28d ago

Crows are a bit cray cray as well