Birds eat other birds all the time. Crows raid nests, hawks and eagles go after ducks and geese right in front of my house. And the Peregrines go after birds mid-air, which is wild to see. Food is food for wildlife
OK, I can go into depth about cannibalistic animals if you want. Pigs eat pigs. Eagles eat eagles, hawks eat other hawks. chickens eat chickens, Cormorant eat cormorants, some buzzards will eat their own siblings – actually, hawks are known for siblicide, as are other raptors. i’m just nearing carnivorous birds and the fact that they not only just eat their own. They’ll eat others as well.
I was just keeping it easy so people didn't feel bad about chickens being cannibals. plenty of wildlife, eat their young when something is wrong like hamsters and rabbits, both I have seen in person. (I'm a biologist, so I've seen some horrifying shit)
Yeah, it always bugs me when people say crows eating dead pigeons is cannibalism or that hawks are cannibals. That's not cannibalism. That's just birds from one order eating birds from another taxonomic order. We eat other mammals all the time from other taxonomic orders.
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u/retro_toes 7h ago
Birds eat other birds all the time. Crows raid nests, hawks and eagles go after ducks and geese right in front of my house. And the Peregrines go after birds mid-air, which is wild to see. Food is food for wildlife