Nature's gun-cam footage...Falcons hunting Crows

[mudpuppy]

http://youtu.be/WIaUXnduKi0

 

Ran across this short vid of some hunting falcons with small cameras on their backs....chasing down some crows.  Incredible...just incredible.

 

 

 

 

[79_vRAF_Friendly_flyer]

Wow!

 

Looks cool, but I think the elevators on the crowns are over-modelled. I think I even have a graph around here I could dig up to prove it.

[=LD=Hethwill]

Crow rudder was rubber banding plus the auto radiator cut off its RPM at the end...

 

Other than that, great vid. Seen some Falconiers aficionados been attaching eye cams to their birds for study purposes. Always great to see it first hand.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 Thanks for sharing. Nature is amazing, always liked documentaries and such about the wonders around us

[Emgy]

Wow, fantastic footage.

Humans are nowhere close to achieving this combination of wide-angle thrust vectoring + high thrust-weight ratio + fuel economy.

Edited September 23, 2014 by Calvamos

[oneeyeddog]

Thanks Mudpuppy for posting this great footage.I consider myself lucky to live in an area where I can watch the struggle between the Crows and Raptors. It seems extremely one sided- in favor of the crows. Where Crows are cawing you're sure to find a Hawk, harried and exhausted and you can bet there's more Crows on the way. I've even seen them swarm Bald Eagles and a Great Horned Owl. Only once have I witnessed a Raptor kill a Crow. 

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks for the vid!  I was out for a walk one day with my wife.  A bunch of crows were squawking away.  We wondered what they were fussing about.  All of a sudden, about 6 feet in front of us a hawk came out of the brush with a big crow in its talons and flew across in front of us and carried it away.  The other crows followed, still squawking.  I never realized they would take a crow, never mind one of that size.

[oneeyeddog]

Thanks for the vid!  I was out for a walk one day with my wife.  A bunch of crows were squawking away.  We wondered what they were fussing about.  All of a sudden, about 6 feet in front of us a hawk came out of the brush with a big crow in its talons and flew across in front of us and carried it away.  The other crows followed, still squawking.  I never realized they would take a crow, never mind one of that size.

Thats cool VR. Getting to see something like that is really fascinating.

[AA_Engadin]

A magnificent example of good 'rotte' team-work 

 

AA_Engadin

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

BNZ vs angles fighters. BNZ using teamwork and E management as usual.

[LukeFF]

Those crows are turning way too good and hold their energy in a dive far too well. Obviously they are modeled after hand-picked data and not true field conditions.   

[Dakpilot]

I heard there is a goat simulator......I see a gap in the market  then we can really get the under modelled crow discussions going 

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[SYN_Mike77]

At the end of my block are two large trees that serve as the home for a murder of crows. One day I saw a hawk swoop into the trees followed by a thunderous racket from the crows. About six seconds later the hawk came flying out of the trees empty taloned but being chased by a about a dozen of the biggest crows I've seen since I left Kansas ( Kansas btw, has some freakin huge crows!) The crows boomed and zoomed that hawk for about a quarter of a mile before turning for home. It was quite a sight.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Falcons are very aggressive when they have the advantage. I've seen them run off by a couple of sparrows. They tend to run when the opponent has the advantage. Sorta like me in a Luftwaffe machine.

[sallee]

That was fantastic. Thanks, mudpuppy.

My parents-in-law have a glass roof in their kitchen which is currently smeared with blood and feathers where a buzzard killed and ripped apart a crow. My sister-in-law watched it happen.

[Leaf]

That is a masterclass in booming and zooming, right there.

[Relix]

That reminds me of multiplayer, me as the crow

[Leaf]

sharks use similar techniques to bnz banks of fish toward the surface and run them out of energy,(energy is inversed under the sea, the closest to the surface the less energy)

i learnt to copy their tactics

 

LOL! 

[sallee]

Ditto!

What do you do with the fish when you've caught them, raaaid?

[SYN_Lt_Dan]

Way to much rubber banding around the axis on the falcon devs please see to this asap and dive speeds are all wrong 

 

Charts and graphs and other boring crap to follow as proof of this stay tuned 

Edited September 24, 2014 by SYN_Lt_Dan