The claw of a songbird is visible protruding from the chest of this dead hawk.Posted on 04/29/2008 11:39:50 AM PDT by BGHater
Bird of prey found dead along road had claw sticking through its chest
A hawk was found dead along a California highway with the claw of a songbird protruding from its chest.
It's not clear, however, if the partially digested meal, one claw somehow managing to get back out from a terribly wrong location, had anything to do with the hawk's death.
On the evening of Sunday, March 30, Julia Di Sieno of the Animal Rescue Team in California noticed the dead sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) while driving a sick night heron to the Solvang Veterinary Hospital. Sharp-shinned hawks are birds of prey and considered stellar hunters. They are the smallest hawks that reside in the United States and Canada.
"So I did a U-turn, put on my gloves and picked the bird up, and immediately rushed him to the vet where he died in my hands," Di Sieno told LiveScience. "Upon examination, we noticed that there was a small bird claw protruding out of its chest."
A pouch in the hawk's chest area called the crop had ripped open and the songbird, which had been a meal for the hawk, was spilling out.
The claw of a songbird is visible protruding from the chest of this dead hawk.
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let me guess...global warming?
Interesting
I once found a hawk, dead in a hole in a tree. It’s whole body was inside the hole and it’s wings were outside. It got it’s body inside and found itself stuck without leverage to go forward or back.
When I was about 7 or 8 in the 60’s on my grandfather’s farm, we found a snake that had two legs from a toad sticking out from its sides. The toad had clawed it’s captor’s sides out and both had died as a result.......
WAsn’t there a story about a dachshund who clawed his way out of an alligator’s belly?
Or....possibly the hawk was hit by a vehicle, and a crow/raven proceeded to tear the crop open.
I'm fairly certain most hawks tear their food up....and then eat it. That song bird would have been dead...before being swallowed.
Of course....it could a been a moose.
Doxies are diggers! I bet the alligator thought he had a devil inside him!.....
Somebody post the pic of the hummingbird killed by the Praying Mantis. Stuck one foreleg right into the bird’s chest, into the heart, and held on. Very cool.
I often wondered if the constriction of the gullet was enough to cause hypoxia and unconsciousness or if the stomach acid would bring rapid death. But if ever in someone’s gullet, I’d want to be kicking and scratching as long as I could. That frog has the right idea.
It’s a bird-eat-bird world out there.
I’m a birder, and that ain’t no joke.
C;MON! Everyone knows that only cats eat all the songbirds! (/sarcasm)
Thanks Groucho!
Love it!
This is why you should chew before swallowing.
This is why you should chew before swallowing.
Yes...but an alligator or a croc will absolutely not eat anything that isn't 100% dead.
They'll take the prey down under the water, lodge it under a log and then wait until it's all gooey and tender.
Even if fed a decapitated, plucked chicken, they'll grab it in their jaws and hold it until they are sure there is no life in it at all. Then they'll crush it completely and swallow.
Sharks are totally different. They'll swallow first and ask questions later.
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