Posted on 11/02/2020 8:51:02 AM PST by Red Badger
(Courtesy of Bill Combs Jr.)
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It’s a scientific fact. Just like some people who lack the means to get from place to place on their own, relying on others for rides, hitchhikers exist in the animal kingdom too.
There’s the ray-finned remora fish—also called the “sucker fish” because of its suction cup dorsal fin—specifically adapted to latch onto sharks, to ride and feed in a symbiotic relationship.
Less well documented is the small Egyptian plover bird, or crocodile bird, which is rumored to perilously clean the reptile’s teeth by feeding on decaying scraps of meat inside its mouth.
A bird riding aloft another, larger bird though?
That’s hardly a common, or expected, sight. But a wildlife photographer based in upstate New York saw just that, and captured the moment vividly on camera.
(Courtesy of Bill Combs Jr.)
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On July 9, local nature photographer Bill Combs Jr. posted on Facebook photos he took of a red-winged blackbird making a mid-air landing on a bald eagle that would make Top Gun’s Maverick look like child’s play. The aerial acrobatics occurred over Cobleskill Reservoir in Schoharie County.
The bald eagle was flying over the water clutching a fish it caught in its talons.
Then the red-winged blackbird appeared from above and landed on the airborne eagle.
A stunning display.
yep, see smaller birds going after the Red tailed hawks all the time as they near a nest.
Yes, the aerial display of blackbirds going after raptors in flight is something. The smaller and more agile birds have a big advantage
Why drive when you can get driven?
— Riddick, Richard B
i thought kamala said that?
I thought she said “ridden”?
Why drive when you can get ridden ?
That got her places !
A piscis bird.
A kestrel will eat that red winged black bird. Kestrels can knock it down in mid flight, grab it, bring it up into a tree and devour it. We watched two kestrels and their two young eat two small birds a day all summer long. Our lawn was covered with feathers and bird parts.
There are several including eagles landing on people.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bird+lands+on+eagle&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl6ujH7OTsAhVFMn0KHcWBAAMQ_AUoAXoECBAQAw&biw=1616&bih=874
Eagles even go ice fishing!
https://www.shetzers.com/bald-eagle-fishing-through-the-ice/
Donald Trump and Bald eagle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkiYJI5fwQE
I've had it happen fishing near a nesting tree, you can't get away from there fast enough.
Avian Uber coming to a neighborhood near you.
Yeah how do you miss that? We see this all the time. Birds will attack raptors that capture other birds.
I guess if you’re raised to believe Disney, the Blackbird is taking a ride.
seems to be the mantra of all post boomer males who sit in the passenger seat obediently as their woman drives them around in the Prius
I wanna see an eagle with a MAGA hat. Where are those “glue” people when you need them?
If the hats made the pigeons look so dandy, could you imagine an eagle flying with one?
A tree rat riding a red-headed peckerwood.
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