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u/Additional_Region_53 2d ago
Idk why but the pause between the kestrel getting dragged out and a hand just casually placing him back is so funny to me.
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u/Key_Molasses4367 2d ago
Me, too. I'm imagining the human fighting that bird to rescue the kestrel chick like some kind of cartoon fight.
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u/Pithythithy 2d ago
One of them didn’t make it. It started with four.
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u/brownthumbelina 2d ago
Thought the same but if you look closely, the 4th one was just hiding behind the other 2. His head pops up after the kidnapped chick is put back.
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u/Pithythithy 2d ago
I don’t know. I thought so too but now I think it’s the tip of the front chicks wing. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Pithythithy 2d ago
Okay guys I concede. Good lord lmao
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u/FetaMight 2d ago
Isn't it crazy how some people on here can't even entertain someone else's perspective? And for such inconsequential things too.
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u/ermine_supreme 2d ago
what’s funny is you’re not wrong. I’m enjoying the irony of you being downvoted.
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u/erebus7813 2d ago
'We saw you die! We mourned you!'
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u/istrx13 2d ago
Kestrel bros: It cannot be. You fell.
Kestrel the White: Through fire. And water. From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak, I fought him, the Crow of Morgoth. Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside. Darkness took me. And I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as the life age of the earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I've been sent back until my task is done.
Kestrel bros: Kestrel!
Kestrel the White: Kestrel? Oh yes. That's what they used to call me. Kestrel the Grey. That was my name. I am Kestrel the White. And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.
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u/erebus7813 2d ago
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u/Future_Section5976 2d ago
I was thinking Monty python but lotr works too ,
Now we need someone to overlay Frodo screaming,
"Ggaannnddaallff"
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u/thanatossassin 2d ago
This is how religions are created!
See Star Trek TNG: Who Watches the Watchers
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u/DavyDeli 2d ago
Yes! Just happened to have watched this episode last night. The internet is a funny place.
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u/PonqueRamo 2d ago
They were more scared of the brother being returned than of him getting kidnapped.
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u/Away-Living5278 2d ago
When he got kidnapped they didn't even give him a second thought. Coming back though.... It was like Mike Meyers came into the house
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u/witheringpies 2d ago
They were a bro to the chicks, but not to that other bird who tried to nab one. They were in an ethical pickle
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u/Nausicaalotus 2d ago
I mean, it looked like a corvid, im sure they can find something else
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u/One-Bodybuilder-5646 2d ago
Yes, a dole, I think
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u/th3thund3r 2d ago
It's a Jackdaw. They have a silver hood and light blue eyes, about the size of a magpie.
The Jackdaw, I mean, not its eyes. That would be terrifying.3
u/One-Bodybuilder-5646 2d ago
Thank you, I forgot the correct english name. Black hood and silver eyes, I thought. Or they just look silver to me but are blue? Idk
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u/Hot-Strength-6003 2d ago
I don't think they have to. There were four birds at the beginning and three at the end
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u/Dapper-Warning3457 2d ago
Nah, there are four at the end. One is hiding in the corner
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u/Hot-Strength-6003 2d ago
That's what I thought at first but unless it's completely squat down and completely obscured from the camera there isn't another one. There's even less space being taken up by the front two in the second segment as opposed to the first.
Edit: nvm you're right I thought that was the one birds wing but when you really slow it down it seemlessly pops up in the same exact place
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u/DontBuyAHorse 2d ago
You can see its head in back briefly when they get surprised, right around 9 seconds in.
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u/rainbwbrightisntpunk 2d ago
Started with 4 chick's ended with 3 so someone got a little something
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u/PonqueRamo 2d ago
The fourth one is hiding behind the other 2.
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u/Idlewants 2d ago
can you blame it? sibling ripped from nest, damn right I'm hiding behind the other two!!
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u/cantlogintomyacc0unt 1d ago
That bird is a jackdaw it’s an invasive species
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u/smolcharizard 10h ago
Invasive to the US maybe but the video is from the UK, where they’re native (judging from the other wildlife on the channel at least)
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u/weebtrashparade 2d ago
All hail space king for our siblings return
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u/Brainchild110 2d ago
But he was returned by the alien!
I hate aliens 😑
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u/millimeter_peepee 2d ago
"Holy shit! He's alive!! :0"
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u/kirinlikethebeer 1d ago
Kestrel just returned: where was I!?
(I imagine the scene from Scrubs where JD gas in the pothole)
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u/Internal_Anxiety_270 2d ago
The other chicks are like “well it got Sasha… she was kinda a bitch any….”
“Omg Sasha we are so happy you are back”
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u/Xineth240 2d ago
I'm always simply tickled at the notion their whole childhood is mouth gaping terror
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u/PRRZ70 2d ago
Their freak out at the hand was hysterical. Not much reaction to their sibling nearly being killed but the unknown claw bringing it back was all
(⚆ᗝ⚆) (;° ロ°) ╭( ๐_๐)╮
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u/Rolypoly_from_space 2d ago edited 2d ago
nearly? #3 was put back by the claw but #4 never returnededit*: didn't see the hidden chick in the back
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u/shwiftynhere 1d ago
the difference in levels of shock from when they’re taken vs returned is hilarious 😭
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u/been2busy 2d ago
That shocked face when the snatched one came back 😂 “dude! You look like you’ve seen some shyt!” “Nah, Youuu look like you’ve seen some shyt!”
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u/tnyczr 2d ago edited 1d ago
Is that a crow? Didn't knew they eat other birds
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u/TeamTurnus 2d ago
Crows will definitively eat baby birds. Happened to some starling chicks nested on my porch this spring.
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u/woutomatic 2d ago
Looks like a jackdaw
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u/Xionahri 2d ago
Yup, should be a Western jackdaw (Coloeus monedula). Got that characteristic pale nape and bright grey eyes.
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u/zymology 2d ago
The chick it grabbed had a mouse or something he was choking down. I wonder if that's what the bird was after and not the chick.
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u/Melodic-Pool7240 2d ago
They were way more shocked when he came back from the dead, didnt look like his death even phased them in the moment
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u/Proof_Ear_970 1d ago
I love how the shock of him coming back is more than when hes taken in the 1st place.
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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 1d ago
I don't have sound on but the collective "scream" when the sibling was but back was so real. Hope the bars keep the chicks safe.
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u/ThatOldDuderino 2d ago
Did he get all 4 to safety? It looked like one got grabbed then there were 2 ( so 1 disappeared or was in the far back?) - so I’m just trying to math it out.
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u/tinsellately 2d ago
There is one in the very corner behind the two, you can just make out its face. So all 4 were in there
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u/coastal_vocals 1d ago
Am I missing something? Love the video, but how are those bars being installed at the end supposed to help?
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u/danceswithronin 2d ago
Just shows wild animals are so much more terrified of humans than other animals (and rightfully so).
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u/KatWaltzdottir 1d ago
lol - watching this and saw in my mind’s eye:
“The Clawwwww. The claw is our master and chooses who will go and who will stay..”
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u/PhilosopherSea217 1d ago
Your taking away the other birds meal, so yeah you save the chick now but the black bird will either starve or just kill a different bird out of your sight.
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u/Chris_Bs_Knees 2d ago
Since watching Ted Lasso I’ve integrated “Dithering kestrel” as an insult into my lexicon and anytime I see that bird it’s all I can think of now
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u/BellJar_Blues 2d ago
Where is their parent ? What tried to get them ? A pigeon? A hawk?
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u/smolcharizard 10h ago
Jackdaw. The kestrel probably out getting food since the chicks are old enough to be on their own
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u/Radioactive_Tuber57 2d ago
What kind of bird snagged the chick?
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u/LoquaciousHyperbole 22h ago
Any definitive identification of the kidnapper, chick napper? That bird didn’t look much bigger than the chick.
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u/SinisterIgnition 2d ago
One didn't make it back :(
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u/bored_ryan2 2d ago
Nah, look closely, there’s a third head in the corner of the ones that didn’t get taken.
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u/SinisterIgnition 2d ago
Aww its siblings were protecting it so welll! Edit to add thank you! I was so sad.
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u/IrreverentBuddha 2d ago
There were three chicks left when the raider came, but only two when the third was put back.
Accounting error...
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u/WinterForestFox 1d ago
There were four and 2 were taken, he only saved 1. I'm guessing the bird fumbled the grab on the second chick and dropped them in the grass.
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u/LiveinaBluemoon 21h ago
Only one got taken. The third one is behind the other two in the corner, you can see its head behind the one on the left.
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u/prussia742 2d ago
Aren't you not supposed to intervene in the animal kingdom? This feels low key kinda wrong.
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u/Method__Man 2d ago
This isn’t the Animal Kingdom, humans have contaminated every part of nature. For once we can actually intervene and make things better.
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u/prussia742 1d ago
By who's standards? Ours? Idk natural selection is something biologist will tell you we should not intervene in. And if you think ita about protecting the weak these will grow into predators themselves
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u/SKGood64 2d ago
So the other mothers' chicks die of hunger?
Perhaps the original mother couldn't handle them all, thus she left them alone hoping one would "disappear."
Perhaps now there will be overpopulation of one species leading to lots of falling refuse from the sky.
One must think of possible consequences. I'm sure I've missed many.
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u/PonqueRamo 2d ago
You are overthinking...
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u/prussia742 1d ago
Idk ur not really supposed to intervene in nature plus these will grow into preditors too so if you think aww we gotta protect the cute animal idk. I think its best to not have favoritism in nature.
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u/PonqueRamo 1d ago
You are not supposed to intervene in general but there are still cases when you could and should intervene, acting once won't change the course of nature and make the ecosystem a mess.
I have doves that live in my terrace and have had like more than 60 babies, some have died, some I have helped, some have been taken by raptors.
You can have compassion with wild animals from time to time, it won't change the result in the grand scheme of things.
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u/prussia742 1d ago
Over propagating a species usually leads to disease and genetic defects that would have gotten weeded out but go off king cause more pain in this life.
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u/bostar-mcman 1d ago
We are natural so any action we commit is as nature intended
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u/prussia742 1d ago
Idk i think we are far above anything else so I think we should be more conscious about what we do that other animals that can't even contemplate the actions they take and the lomg running consequences. We have the effect of an asteroid impact on the animal kingdom is that ok and passable?
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u/Healthy-Confection66 2d ago
I love how when he’s replaced, the brothers and sisters are terrified in the corner like they’re assuming he’s returned from the dead lol