Heron nails unsuspecting dove | Kgalagadi National Park, South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2016
- A Black Headed Heron takes out a Namaqua dove in a waterhole. Recorded in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.
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Place: Kgalagadi TransfrontierPark, South Africa.
Description: We were on holiday in the Kgalagadi and had seen the Herons standing around and in the various waterholes. The one morning we stopped at the Vaalpan waterhole on the dune road to have some coffee.
I saw the Heron fly down from a nearby tree and land in the water. It then proceeded to stalk and eat several Namaqua Doves and Quelea’s one after the other. After it had had its fill it flew back up into the tree where it seemed to have a nest. As soon as it had left the waterhole another Heron entered and proceed to do the same thing. They have mastered the art of catching these doves, some in full flight, and manage to eat several of them.
Submitted by Kate Morris
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That's a great clip
Notice all of the other birds taking notes.
Namaqua dove, also called a Cape Dove. I used to raise them in aviaries here in California years ago.
Amazing thank you so much for posting these videos. Much appreciated.
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
excellent
What opportunistic predators. The range of prey these birds hunt is crazy.
Yeah it is crazy.
They are brutal hunters
@Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos Good point; I am looking for a lawyer for my murder trial.
@Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos And Foxes kill more chickens than they can eat and Wild Dogs more calves.
@@rla1000 ALL Hunters are BRUTAL, including the "PULPIT WOLVES"!!!!!!
I suspect fowl play.
Damn, it must drop only atomic bombs while flying😂
Great footage
Actually, footage of something horrible
@@vigilante9901 This is life. If you consider this act as something horrible then i feel sorry about you cause you live in a really horrible planet my friend.
@@OdiFroilan Yes it is horrible. We'll somehow put you through a simulation of what the dove went through, snatched by the heron you didn't know was a threat, being brutalised by it and being in absolute agony and horror from it, then likely going alive down its throat as what happens to many animals, still being alive when you reach its stomach, and we'll see if you then understand why it's horrible, okay?
No need to feel sorry for me. I'm very happy I have empathy and compassion.
Also, murder and torture of human beings is able to happen too but we don't just spout "This is life" about it and just accept it, do we?
@@vigilante9901 You are right, we dont. But this happens cause we naturally feel more empathy and compassion for members of our own species and for members of species with similar characteristics with us. I dont know many people that wont celebrate for their skills after brutally smushing the brain of a fruit fly that annoys their lunch. But if a kitten was annoying during lunch everybody would say "how cute" cause the kitten as a baby mammal triggers our parental insticts which the poor fly cant.
In our example, the heron, as thousands of other species, is carnivorous. If the heron fails to catch the dove (the frog, mouse, fish etc), its babies back in the nest will brutally die of starvation. The heron itself will probably die brutally in the fangs of another predator as it will get weaker.
What happened to the dove, happened also to every animal that our mothers consumed in order to raise us. Many plants also were abused for that.
One minute you’re chilling by the pool, the next you’re slowly being dissolved in corrosive stomach acids. Bloody great.
Herons are horrific animals
@@vigilante9901 they don't seem to have much consideration for other wildlife.
I like how herons dip their food in dove dipping sauce like chicken nuggets
After being harpooned, all the dove's cries "hey we both have feathers" were of no avail.
Just like when you are SCAMMED by the PULPIT SCAMMERS; Haa, "We are ALL HUMANS"!!!!!!!
So prehistoric looking. Almost what id imagine a dinosaur to look like.
I wonder how it must be living with dinasours.
@GFW777 Just like the age-long AFTERLIFE!!!!!
The jabla Alis of the bird world
I feel like I'm watching a RL dinosaur.
That was beautiful!
For a psychopath, yeah
Omg😱
Damn, those herons are clinical killers. One touch and its over...
Crocodiles, Komodo dragons and herons, the dinosaurs of the earth.
Actually all birds are dinosaurs, literally not metaphorically. And crocodilians are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. Lizards like Komodo dragons are not related.
Even the smallest birds are dinosaurs. The reason dinosaurs are often thought of as big is because big dinosaurs get more fame, and because most Mesozoic dinosaurs were mesotherms, which is intermediate between ectothermic and endothermic, because it is actually a spectrum, not a hard binary, kind of like gender.
Any else got a gulp in throat 😂
It used to be called wildlife for just this reason.
That looks like lorikeet rainbow
Apparently, herons will eat fish, squirrels, other birds, lint, carburetors, cell phones, wrenches and any other animate or inanimate object within reach, and fits in its mouth.
Horrific :( Very sad for the dove. It only happened because the dove didn't think the heron was a threat
The heron needs to eat as well. It can’t go to Walmart and grab a bite lol
@@weshouldsaveourselves6780 Let's see if you still feel like saying that while getting killed and eaten by an animal, that would be so interesting to see
@@vigilante9901 its the way God created things. a cat eats a mouse. a mouse may eat a worm or insect. a worm may eat smaller things. its the way things are. if you dont like that well then what can we do for you. cant exaclty tell a heron to not eat a bird.
Poor bird probably had some babies back at the nest
Well they becomes food for some other animals, and life goes on as it has for million of years long before humans walked on earth.
Это и есть диназавр.
T-Rex' most worthy successors.
All those fluffy feathers might get stuck somewhere
God has DESIGNED its stomach to DIGEST whatever is SWALLOWED!!!!!
@@jamessunday8915 Maybe you should watch the video where a water snake after being swallowed by a heron pierce through the heron's throat and escapes alive midflight.
This bird did not understand the other as a pradator
Exactly. Poor dove. Feel very sad for it
A little shakin, a little tenderizin, and down you go.
I see what you did there. Heron eats dove after STALKING IT. Heron. Stalk. ok never mind. Lol
+dave Scopes hahaha! You got me ;)
Best of Africa Lol 😂😂😂😂
dave Scopes Ba dum tss...
Caught him sleeping
Во подлая и,даже,не
поперхнулась...
What is the name of this dove. It looks very pretty. Smaller in size. There is a similar species in Saudi Arabia
The *Namaqua dove/cape dove*
They have long tail and male r with black color from head to chest
Any experts out there who can explain how a heron deals with a gut full of feathers?
Owl and other birds use to womit stuff their guts acid can't meelt usually you find feathers and boones in small sized ball shaped limits below their nests, I would guess the Heron does the same, just throwing up things it's stomach can't melt.
Poor Dove must not have seen a bird eating a bird ......
u crazy
Good job heron
That should only be said if you were the victim
Always wondered if predators have taste buds..... I mean, to swallow with feathers an all doesn't seem very appetizing...
He is dipping it in river sauce though.
Carnivores tend to have fewer tastebuds than herbivores.
@@dweebteambuilderjones7627
Venomous prey animals use to signal they are toxic, poison plants not so much, the chance to die from poison is probably the biggest factor för their tastebuds not a gourmands tastebuds exactly when you realize they chew than swallow then emot it back up in their mouth and eat it again, the tastebuds are probably just there to detect signs of dangerous natural chemicals that works as defence for the plant that doesn't want to be eaten.
Baliktan usanmiş demekki, kuş etine yönelmiş...
It’s a Bee-eater, not a dove.
No...
It's not bee eater...
A *Namaqua dove*
Down the hatch it go's.
Dinner is served
Like a bloody pterodactyl
The prey us not dove but another bird .
It is dove...
A *Namaqua dove*
I was hoping the heron would choke and die. That would have been a nice sight.
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Bloody herons are vicious
They're terrible animals
Herons usually wipe out 85% of new born ducklings at a nearby pond. These birds are nasty.
Navaro Palm On the other side, they prevent an overpopulation of the prolific ducks.
But , I agree, they are nastyrminators indeed.
Another typical day at McDonald's.
McDove not McDonalds
not a dove
yes its a dove,had them myselff
have them and breeding them in Egypt namaqua dove or cape dove
I think they like Merops philippinus bird.
Broke its neck first.
Its not a dove
Cape Dove.
왜가리 갈매기 펠리컨은 너무 무식해
뭐든 잡아서 통째로삼켜
I hate bloody heron
They are spectacular creatures.
So what do YOU eat, wiseguy? Hamburgers, chickennuggets?
Heron's need to eat
If they don't, they will starve
Yeah imagine no predators in your town and billion of doves that poop everywere and you have to wade through 3 feet deep doveshit when you need to go outside.
@@megaball-ps8tq That is a far better than what they subject their prey to