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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tru dat. Small birds are more maneuverable. If it's pure bird-on-bird aerial combat, the bird with less mass will pretty much always have the advantage; they can get behind the big bird and just peck it from above until they feel like stopping. It's a very rare inversion of the usual rules of Nature Fight.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Really depends on the individual birds in question IMO. A red tailed hawk for example is really best optimized for prey on the ground like rabbits. On the other hand, a peregrine falcon is optimized for aerial prey and they eat everything from hummingbirds to geese

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't the peregrine take those out at mach 69 from the air and not while the cocky little shit is talking smack in his ear on a branch though?

Get fucked big falcon. This is lil birb territory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s what they’re famous for. However, they can catch prey like songbirds by simply being faster and more agile than the quarry, chasing them down in horizontal flight. Some journal articles credit it with a horizontal top speed in the 90 mph range.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

O_o ... I've got... I've got a nest to attend to...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Get outta here with your actual domain knowledge