• Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks
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        3 days ago

        Corvids often mob to harass owls during daylight. Usually, the owl is roosting and doing nothing to bother the corvids, and then a corvid comes and spots her and then caws both to harass her and to call his colleagues to help in the harassment. Eventually, the owl gets enough of the cawing and flies away. Usually, they don’t harm each other, it’s just a harassment, still it’s a harassment from the corvids against the owls. Corvids do this because they feel threatened by the presence of the owl near their claimed territory. They believe the owl will eat their eggs or their crowlets.

        Credits for all the pictures: Macaulay Library

        !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

        Eagle-Owl hissing at a corvid perched in a tree branch nearby. Lots of corvids perched around an Eagle-Owl on the treetops. Another Eagle-Owl hissing at a nearby, dissimulating corvid perched on a nearby tree branch. A corvid cawing at a burrowing owl perched on a fence pole.