Goshawk Nest Webcam in Tartu by RMK 2024-2025

[sova]

They are not *our* Goshawk but still very interesting

Bird of prey uses red traffic light phase to hunt sparrows
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/nat ... e-em-em-sh

"He waits until cars form a line and then strikes in their protection: A round-tailed hawk in the USA has adapted to life in the city in an astonishing way."
A goshawk in the US state of New Jersey has developed an unusual hunting technique. A zoologist observed it several times taking advantage of a red traffic light to attack smaller birds under the cover of waiting cars. Vladimir Dinets of the University of Tennessee writes in the journal Frontiers in Ethology that this is an "impressive feat of intelligence." It may explain why the bird of prey "successfully colonizes a dangerous environment like the urban landscape."

Researchers regularly come across surprising examples of how animals adapt to urban environments and traffic. Some crows drop walnuts onto the road and wait until a car drives over them and cracks them open. Scavenger birds sometimes patrol busy roads and strike when a car runs over another animal. Birds of prey are also known for sophisticated maneuvers, such as driving their victims into narrow streets with no way out.

[sova]

Everyone has emptied themselves, time for the next feeding.
Alla has been gone for 4 hours now.




09:37 - Alla with decorated branch
09:38 - flies away

[sova]

09:39 - Alla with a branch
09:41 -She digs...she observes...she digs





09:47 - Alla flies away

[sova]

10:07 - The little ones are still alone, no more deliveries
I have to go...have a nice day.

[Hellem]

all

sova, thank you have a nice day

11:15 Alla comes with a prey (2) an begins feeding
11:17 Feeding is over and this small prey is gone
11:18 Alla takes off

[Heiki]

Hi
sova, Hellem

[Heiki]

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[Hellem]

Heiki

12:24 Alla lands with a big prey (3) and begins feeding
12:40 Feeding is over and the prey is gone, Alla cleans the table, her chicks are full
12:42 Alla takes off ... and is back with a pine branch, 12:43 off again, 12:44 is back wit another pine branch, 12:45 takes off, 12:46 is back with a pine branch ... takes off, 12:48 is back with a pine branch, she digs
12:50 Alla tries to cover her kids , it's raining in Tartu

[Heiki]

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[Hellem]

13:52 Alla flies away

[Heiki]

[Hellem]

16:36 Alla comes with a pine twig, 16:37 takes off, 16:38 Alla lands with another pine twig, 16:39 she takes off

[Heiki]

[Heiki]

[Hellem]

17:49 Alla comes without prey, she digs, 17:54 she tries to cover her gang
18:06 Alla flies away, 18:13 she is back with a big prey (4) and starts feeding
18:28 Feeding is over and Alla cleans the table, the chicks are full
18:30 Alla flies away, 18:32 she's back with a pine branch, 18:33 takes off again

[Heiki]

[Heiki]