Did eaten songbird claw its way through hawk?

Live Science ^ | 24 Apr 2008 | Jeanna Bryner

[BGHater]

[Perdogg]

let me guess...global warming?

[Cold Heart]

Interesting

[cripplecreek]

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.

[Red Badger]

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.......

[rintense]

WAsn’t there a story about a dachshund who clawed his way out of an alligator’s belly?

[Osage Orange]

Most likely the hawk was hit by a vehicle.....and ruptured his crop..thus exposing the last meal.

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.

[Red Badger]

Doxies are diggers! I bet the alligator thought he had a devil inside him!.....

[Lizavetta]

[SJSAMPLE]

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.

[NonValueAdded]

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.

[mnehring]

http://www.milehighdoxies.com/dachshundnews.htm

Near the bottom half

[ClearCase_guy]

I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know ...

[Flycatcher]

It’s a bird-eat-bird world out there.

I’m a birder, and that ain’t no joke.

[mollynme]

Sounds like a case for MythBusters.

[Fawn]

C;MON! Everyone knows that only cats eat all the songbirds! (/sarcasm)

[netmilsmom]

Thanks Groucho!

Love it!

[DannyTN]

This is why you should chew before swallowing.

[DannyTN]

This is why you should chew before swallowing.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Doxies are diggers! I bet the alligator thought he had a devil inside him!.....

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.