Great blue heron predation by bald eagle (warning, it's not pretty)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2020
- The fannini subspecies of great blue heron lives in coastal British Columbia and is blue-listed (of "special concern") in this province. Two of their main threats are human activities, which disturb or destroy both their nesting habitat and their feeding areas, and predation by bald eagles.
This video clip documents a bald eagle attacking a great blue heron nest and killing one of the two chicks. It's not the kind of footage you would watch for "fun" (so there, you've been warned) but it is of scientific interest. This predation event took place at a small great blue heron nesting colony in July, 2020.
That eagle just saved countless ducklings and pond goldfish.
It all evens out in the end
Imagine hearing that in the woods with no context.
Or in the dark
@@darrylb9228 forget all that I'm gone lol 🤣
Exactly!! Go bald eagle !! I’d never dispatch a heron but didn’t feel at all bad for that one.
I first watched this with the audio turned off, but after reading your comment I went back to rewatch... you are so right. It would be hair raising.
DAMN SCARY AT ANYTIME OF THE DAY!
You and I define _graphic_ very differently...
Some people would that video graphic.
Was expecting to see the Eagle tear up a bloody heron flesh. Disappointed
Click Bait Warning!!!
That Eagle just saved the lives of a few gophers.
They kill 100x as many fish as they do land animals of any kind you youtube dummy.
@@elonmust7470 you are right but why call someone a dummy. Keyboard warrior.
@@truegrizzlesfan2292 I'm not a child.
@@elonmust7470 You certainly act like one.
@@classicgalactica5879 And everyone around me has paper thin skin.
Every pond owner in the world will be rooting for the Eagle.
Yep......herons are the a-holes of the animal kingdom......
@@mrc4912 or efficient hunters of the world
Herons are only good for a picture. Past that they are good for nothing.
Bald eagles also eat fish.
@@mrc4912 Why?
I’ve had it on pause for five months. What do I do next??
Don't feel too bad for herons. Know that they usually impale their prey.
Excellent point, pun intended 🤭
Me too, usually with a fork though.
Birds in general are ruthless when it comes to food.
@@vengefulbeauty HAHAHA
and they can swallow whole, birds as large as a full grown duck
For those that feel sorry for the Heron it should be noted Herons kill and eat other bird species too.
The balance of nature.
I have seen a pair of Herons distract geese so they could take turns eating their goslings.
So what the hell do eagles do then? They're literally predators who eat other bird's chick...
Everyone hates herons cause of that but don't hate Bird of Prey that does the same thing?
Birds, rats , fish , snakes they eat them all.
I have one it comes in my yard eats my Chipmunks
and I let him because I have too many Chipmunks.
And yes they're endangered more than the Eagles.🚩
Humans are far worse
When does it get graphic ?
I came here for the graphic scene but all I heard was screaming 😔
The graphic was at the end - the white on green graphic.
The heron sounds like warthog being flayed alive by lions
You are the expert on animal torture.
The lion kill a warthog first , before he eat it. The lion always bit at lower neck ,so the warthoh can not breathe. I think the lions and another big cat are more human than another animals.
@@mujisuharyanto7455 Not always.
There is no justice in nature , just eagles being eagles.
Same as humanity.
Heron getting a taste of its own medicine.
I don't even understand why there a warning at the beginning. I couldn't see anything.
I have seen what Herons do. I love the video.🦅
?? What do they do?
@@soxnation1000 Look it up on TH-cam🤣
Have you seen what Bald Eagles do? 😉
@@soxnation1000 they do normal animal things, but for some reason people don’t like it when they try to survive and eat animals that happen to be cute and as a result of they attribute human morals to a literal bird and call it “evil”
Extended version?
Where was the graphic part?
Justice for ducklings!
Thought the same, haha
And also justice for squirrels, rabbits, ...
@@juanitojuanillo2509 Since when do Herons eat rabbit and squirrel..
@@clicketysplit1817 just Google "heron eats/swallows ... " :(
@@clicketysplit1817 Herons eat -everything-. I saw a video of one eating a turtle!
Well, payback for those ducklings the heron ate.. I know, Bald eagles do the same..
Bold eagle looks cute while heron are like the hyenas of predator birds
I never knewbirds of prey ate smaller birds! U thought they only ate worms, rodents, squirrels and fish! Silly me!😄
That was awesome. I love this stuff. Thanks for filming it through and putting it up for all to enjoy. Great job
My nephew in the other room goes "what the heck is that noise a pterodactyl"
I've seen plenty of videos where nestlings of many different species are captured by birds of prey - owls, hawks, eagles etc. Their nests must look like buffet tables to the raptors - full of defenceless protein for the taking.
The heron was not what I would call defenceless. If it was defenceless the bald eagle would have snatched it up immediately without that kind of interaction.
What was graphic about that ?
you were in the right place at the right time....great catch an thumbs up from Lake George, NY...
Is there a part 2 to this?…. Asking for a friend…
This video is extremely non-graphic. Literally shows a bird swoop from above, knocking another bird out of it's nest. They land in limbs just below the encounter. They sit there for a minute, then the eagle flies down with the heron. End of video. Zero shots of any birds being eaten alive.
I know lol ....warning crappy video......
graphic?
I was fishing the great backwater of the Mississippi River near Lansing, Iowa. My buddy and I were trolling along the shoreline of one of many channels where you can get lost from the main river if you're not careful. I look up ahead and see this incredible Bald Eagle setting on a tree limb about twenty feet above us as we passed under. Its claws were easily the size of a grown man's hand. Later that same day I caught a Sheephead junk fish that swallowed the hook. I cut the line and threw it back. It was floating dead in the water when a Great Blue Heron swooped it up. I couldn't help but think that bird will die when it try's to pass that hook. I felt bad and realized not to make that mistake again.
Good job son👍👍👍
I’ll take all your sheepshead in st.Petersburg, Florida !!!!!!!🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🎣
Your sheepshead in FL isnt the same as our sheepshead in MN fyi
If you cant cut out a hook dont fish i had to do it all the time.......
And in all actuality, a fish has such strong stomach acid. So when they swallow a hook they have a better chance of surviving if you just cut the line than you playing surgeon. FYI
Hell yeah Mr Eagle. Was the sibling Heron making that awful noise?
beautiful video, congratulations because I'm learning with your videos..
The video sucks
The only thing better than the reality of nature in this video is the sound of the person videotaping taking it personal. Hilarious.
Hearing their commotion is slowly losing my hope that Bigfoot exists.
Wonderful video
Anyone here remember that sitcom in the 80's called ALF?
How's that graphic may I ask? No blood. No dismemberment or visible damage to the heron. Camera zoomed well back. Maybe you need to watch a pregnant wildebeest being torn apart by wild dogs alive to get some idea of what 'graphic' means.
A heron flew over my car on the way to work. I thought, "Who's flying model planes at this hour?" They are big birds.
This is an equivalent of an orca killing a white shark
Spectacular behavior caught here. Shows those that don't know that Bald eagles eat more than fish.
Bald eagles also feast at our local garbage dump.
Excellent camera work.
Uuuuuuuh NO !!!
The other heron chick was feeling really lucky that day!
" Sorry bro! Was nice growing up with you. Bye now"!
I had no idea that bald eagles preying on great blue herons was a common occurence until today! I watched an eagle attempt (and fail) to hunt a heron on the coast of Puget Sound this morning and I thought it was a rare occasion. Thank you for posting this.
Hi Remy, I am glad that you found this interesting. Thanks for your comment!
The attack was on a heron baby chick. A adult heron are deadly to eagles.
@@codeosagie Nah m.th-cam.com/video/5lkyPfGYBf8/w-d-xo.html
Key word is 'chick'
@@codeosagie
Agreed, an adult heron is more than a match for an eagle.
What was so bad? Could not see anything but some flapping.
why the warning ,,cant see sheet ,,,,lotsa noise though
So my question is why do you people continue to take videos if you can't take the full video Anna study video
I couldn't tell. Are there two birds or three?
Two fledgling herons - they can't fly yet, but are only days away. And one eagle - who kills one of the herons.
@@jacquelinewindh
Thanks
...LITTLE DID I KNOW what I would learn and start to discover when I fell in love with doing Bird Photography a year ago! I had NO. IDEA. so many birds attacked and ate other birds sheesh!! NO WONDER small birds are so skittish lol!! :O
When the predator becomes prey.
Hard to feel bad for a heron
Graphic ? I saw Rosie O'Donnell at a buffet once that was more graphic than this.
this sound would be creepy if you didn't know what it was in the woods
Eagles wiped out a heron rookery near our place, a few miles from Seattle.
Yeah, I think they pretty much did here, too. Last year, as far as I can tell, they ate most of the chicks. This year - of the few herons who came back - they ate the eggs. No chicks.
Have you ever seen herons go after just about anything that moves? These are both birds of prey. It's how they survive and keep other species from becoming overpopulated.
Benjamin Franklin allegedly did not have a high opinion of the bald eagle.
Nope! But then again, he wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States!
Watched the first time without sound and thought " well, pretty tame " . Second time with sound, up loud , and yep, pretty rough. Natural but rough.
Warning ... warning... its not pretty... its not ugly... you really can't see anything. There is some noise though! Warning Warning!!
Beautiful video.. justice for little birds..
The little birds were being killed by the eagle
"I've had it with these herons camping my fishing spots"
A few years ago, I was out on my one man boat rowing around a local lake and got into a heron's fishing spot. It flew up into a tree and would not stop complaining (squawking) that I was there.
@@thudthud5423 lol they always squawk in disapproval at me when I disturb them on my kayak as well. They seem to enjoy their alone time
That other chick has about 48hrs to learn to fly bc the eagle is definitely coming back for dessert.
You are so absolutely right! Those two already saw their sibling get eaten, as well as the chicks from another nest right beside them. I came back the next day and didn't see this guy, so I assumed he'd been eaten. But then the next day he was there - the last time I ever saw him, so he must have flown almost exactly 48 hours later! There were about 42 eggs laid in that colony - and only eight of the chicks survived the eagles. I made a little video of those last eight right before they flew - this particular guy is at the 1:00 minute mark: vimeo.com/445068925
the other chick is thinking 'cool, more fish for me now'
Until the Eagle comes back for it, anyway! 😜
@@johnhall3570 true. its advantage was rather temporary. its rather like what other humans thought when i stopped driving 20 yrs ago or the fact ive never had a jet plane holiday or proper job on purpose. or bred more humans lol. ie, thanks mate, all teh more stuff for meeeeeeeeee. hahaha
I don't feel badly for the heron. They kill and eat everything around the water
Now that's a horrific death scream
Amazing video. Determined eagle. Did the eagle and heron fall to ground?
The eagle flew off with the heron - couldn't keep altitude so they did angle down together, coming down to the ground fairly close by - but I was unable to find them in the thick bush.
@@jacquelinewindh Your video is rare, something I would expect on Nat. Geographic. Great job. I live in Blaine Wa. a couple miles from the ocean. Lot of eagles in Pacific Northwest and thousand of ducks this time of year resting in Boundary Bay. Been taking pics with a new EOS M-50 camera. Need to get a zoom lense for closer nature photos.
@@golfandhike5598 It was quite a surprise. I don't normally do video - had been taking stills of the herons defending. Had lots, decided to turn the video function on, and WHUMP - this is the whole unedited video, the eagle was right there. Yes, it sure is great to be able to get out and hang our with wildlife - now more than ever!
@@jacquelinewindh Where in BC there is several nest in Horseshoe bay and lots of Bald eagles too
@@jacquelinewindh p
You could see pretty much nothing, but the sound is just terrible.
It’s not graphic, it’s life. Just shows how we aren’t used to nature.
What a great ending.... It was very hazy... This could be good for Best Cinematography I'm Oscar's..... 🥴
“Help , help, help, I’m being murdered”
Nature at it's finest
Lions, crocodiles and wolves come to mind, but birds are actually some of the fiercest predators on this earth !
birds are descendants of dinosaurs
I bet the gophers and ducklings have a picture of the eagle on their wall at home. I want to be an eagle when I grow up.
Imagine walking through the woods and not knowing this sound was about to happen above your head. I'd be like that's the devil that's what that is, stay out the got damn woods
Nature and reality. Don't forget about either on your lives spent with your eyes in your phones.
And some people thi know there is a benevolent "intelligent" designer?
Wasn’t that graphic jeeeeez!!
I know. It was pretty traumatic for me to watch.
Y’all sum lil while girls this wasn’t shit lmao could barely see what was goin on
from the headline i thought the eagle had a gattling gun and a mincer, nothing in the video that the heron hadn't done to others, the eagle should have gone up and taken the second one.
That’s why bald eagle leaves home never come back
That's it?
That's not graphic, that's "life in the wild" at the supermarket of supermarkets... where the cost is always paid by someone.
If the eagle ate one a day for a year, I’d buy him 10 salmon to eat for a prize🤭👍
Considering what I've seen Blue Herons do to other animals, I'm not upset.
No doubt he'll come back for the second one later in the week.
The early bird catches... well the other bird!
The circle of life, and death.
Eagle must be a parent worried by these predators near some nest.
It is an adult eagle. Not considered adults till they have the well known eagle white head & tails. Juveniles are all brown with blackish beaks. After 5 years they are considered adults. FYI. Lol
My oh my I think I've got the vapers
Never film from the top of a tree.
Here I was ready to see some full on gore.
Not as graphic as a heron eating a squirrel
Graphic is in the eye of the beholder just as beauty is!!
Damn even birds kill each other..
Ive seen Great Bue Herons sit under a Wood duck nest and eat the ducklings, one by one as they left the nest.
Karma is a bitch
Hopefully the Eagle came back for 2nds
When I see Herons killing ducklings (or even worse, eating them alive), such videos soothe my heart.
Good job. Herons eat other bird, fish, cats, small dogs , anything that they can swallow.
It's a "bird eat bird" world out there!
It’s not graphic when you can’t tell what the fuck is going on
What goes around comes around
U were right. That wasn't pretty. Could hardly see anything going on
spot on seen more graphic things on springwatch
Stanley Park, we see this every spring. Ask the tennis community, large nesting colony adjacent to the tennis courts. Man is not the threat, eagles and crows.
"Man" actually is the threat. The predation thing, eagles etc. eating herons, has been going on for millenia. But the fact that our human "land developments" are reducing habitat means that there is less and less area for herons to nest - so instead of equilibrium predation, the herons get more exposed to attach and there is increasing predation. Each heron pair needs only two chicks - out of ALL the eggs they lay over the years - to survive in order to maintain the same equilibirum population (just two, to relace themselves). So "normal" totally is that dozens of their babies get eaten by eagles or whatever. But, for example, in this colony, there is both new town development and new logging that is reducing the area they can nest in, so that they are getting more and more exposed to eagle attack. The year I filmed this, eight chicks (out of 40-some) survived the eagle predation. As far as I can tell, last year none survived.
At least they had another baby, I guess. I take it the adults are out...because there's just the two. I thought it was a parent at first but I think they would've put up a bigger fight. Anyway, I'd hate to see in person. I clicked on this to hear the demonic screaming.
Birds are the craziest predators of all
Its not pretty but its nature,we humans are far far more savage,fascinating clip.