Life or Death: Barn Owl Parents' Desperate Attempt to Save Starving Nestlings from Pigeon

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2023
  • All the birds in our streams/videos are WILD and can enter and leave as they please. Viewer Discretion Advised as nature can be harsh.
    A pigeon laid an egg at the entrance of a barn owl nest box where there were eight large barn owl nestlings. If the pigeon incubates the egg, what will happen? Will the barn owl attack it? Will the pigeons prevent the owl from entering and feed their eight nestlings? If the barn owl is unable to enter the box, its nestlings will die from starvation. Eventually, the barn owl parents arrived at the box during the early hours of the night. They tried multiple times to enter, sometimes bringing food, but were unable to do so. The situation looked grim for the barn owl nestlings who had not been fed since the previous night. Finally, at 0:41, one of the barn owl parents managed to push its way in and kick out the pigeons. This time, the barn owl nestlings were saved, but it was a close call. Click here to watch the LIVE Barn Owl/Pigeon/Myna Israel Cam 4: • LIVE Barn Owl/Pigeon/M...
    Pigeons and barn owls have a history, click here to see:
    Part 1: “Must watch the dramatic ending.Wild pigeon lays egg in active barn owl next to 7barn owl • Must watch the dramati...
    Part 2: "Pigeons do not give an owl hoot, Part 2: Revenge of the owl nestlings": • Wild pigeons do not gi...
    Part 3: “Barn Owls Vs Pigeons: Nest number three, the final chapter of the trilogy”: • WILD Barn Owls Vs Pige...
    Part 4: The barn owl pigeon killer. The barn owl/ pigeon saga continues: • Crazy, The Barn Owl Pi...
    These videos are meant to document the lives of wild barn owls in order that we can learn more for both educational & research purposes and serve as an aid for the species conservation effort. We do not set up/ stage or intervene. All the videos are documenting wild barn owls.
    We love nature and want to share some of the beautiful wildlife in Israel.
    Important notes about barn owls and these cams: All these nest boxes have been monitored as part of our research group’s scientific activities from the Shamir Research Institue and University of Haifa in Israel. All the owls/birds are wild and are free to come and go. We monitor around 200 nest boxes/ 30-60 pairs a year but do not interfere in the owls breeding. In general barn owl pair fledged on average 5 fledglings per pair (range 1- 11 fledglings) but their breeding success decrease in the breeding season with earlier pairs more successful than later pairs. We add cameras either before the pair lay eggs or only have all the nestlings hatched in order to not disturb the owls. So these CAMs are in fact a very small percentage of the overall pairs we monitor. We added the cams as part of own research to learn more about them but also in order that people could observe owls lives without disturbing them. Some later pairs sometimes fail do to a lack of food. This may be hard to observe but this is nature and this is how the barn owls have evolved. You can watch a lecture to given by Dr. Motti Charter to learn more: • Everything you ever wa... .
    Some people comment about cleanliness of barn owls nest due to TH-cam cleaning nests out a lot. Barn Owls do not have any sense of smell and brings dead animals, some of them later rot and also regurgitates owl pellets inside the nests. Owls do not clean their nests and natural nest sites stay like this until they either fall a part or fill up. We do clean our nest once a year, so in fact our nest boxes are cleaner than natural ones. Cleaning boxes too much can cause pairs to abandon and also takes aware beneficial insects that help keep the boxes clean.
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  • @Josh-cz3ym
    @Josh-cz3ym ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I missed all the drama as it unfolded. Thanks for the recap!

  • @glassowlie
    @glassowlie ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Cheeky pigeon. But this proves owls aren't the most intelligent but glad the 8 nestling had feasted!

    • @johnhall3570
      @johnhall3570 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It’s pretty bad when a pigeon outsmarts another bird!

  • @scottwilson7535
    @scottwilson7535 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow, was there really any doubt the Owls would get rid of the pigeon? 😁
    Especially with 8 hungry mouths to feed.

  • @mariomadrigal441
    @mariomadrigal441 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If an owl can't beat a pigeon it's probably doomed anyway.

  • @streetracer2321
    @streetracer2321 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wow, I wonder how many rodents an owl can catch in one night, seems like it’s at least 10 or so.

    • @tofi21
      @tofi21 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Watch cam4 live, the parents hunted 33 rodents last night to feed their 8 nestlings (+ certainly ate 2-3 rodents each by themselves outside the nest and cam view)

    • @streetracer2321
      @streetracer2321 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tofi21 nice thanks

    • @alliecat8348
      @alliecat8348 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm surprised there's any rodents left out there 😂

    • @karmAnonymous
      @karmAnonymous 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alliecat8348shows how much they procreate 😅🤢🤮🏃🏻‍♀️💨☠️

  • @stephanietruesdale1413
    @stephanietruesdale1413 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There sniffs made me watch it all 🥰

  • @YaelSharon3410
    @YaelSharon3410 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Could the owls just catch the pigeons and feed them to the owlets?

    • @WC3fanatic997
      @WC3fanatic997 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      They probably could, but maybe they're wary of that since the pigeons are so damn stupid they fear it might poison their young.

  • @TOTMGreenish-Top-Of-The-Morrin
    @TOTMGreenish-Top-Of-The-Morrin ปีที่แล้ว +5

    pigeons had an egg in the box, and the owls come and kicked Mama pigeon out she had to leave egg 🥚 behind...
    got to wonder if this might be the same pigeon come back to take over the nest... I think that pigeon going to have to wait for a while

  • @abstrakcjaodwewnetrznainte7077
    @abstrakcjaodwewnetrznainte7077 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2 days later
    Pigeon: Ok, let's do this again

  • @abstrakcjaodwewnetrznainte7077
    @abstrakcjaodwewnetrznainte7077 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Revenge of the pigeons.

  • @sth5697
    @sth5697 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My real question is where is the mom? That way the Mom can feed her babies and the Dad can stand look out in case a pigeon comes back.

  • @user-bo3yd8iz2n
    @user-bo3yd8iz2n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Просто надо было и голубю дать гнездо. Видимо там негде гнездиться, раз идут на такие отчаянные меры.

  • @luudest
    @luudest ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Maybe the entrance with the tunnel is just a bad construction.

  • @karumaldumal1983
    @karumaldumal1983 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Go pigeons kick those ass

  • @lotusdoss
    @lotusdoss ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, interesting to watch the mother bird too frequently brings rats to feed it's young ones.