Epic Wildlife Showdown: Lesser Kestrel vs. Centipede + Tug of War

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2023
Female 642 was released as a fledgling from Ramat Hanadiv in 20.20.21
female 559- unknown but was seen in 2022
Clutch
1st egg: March 25, 2023
2nd egg: March 27, 2023
3rd egg: March 29, 2023
4th egg: March 31, 2023
5th egg: April 2, 2023
Nestlings
1-3 nestlings: April 24, 2023
4th nestling: April 25, 2023
5th nestling: April 27, 2023 (died May 4, 2023)
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2022
Clutch
1st egg: April 12, 2022
2nd egg: April 14, 2022
3rd egg: April 16, 2022
4th egg: April 18, 2022
Nestlings hatched:
First three nestlings= May 11, 2022
4th nestling: May13, 2022
2 fledged: Nestlings rings (blue 337 and Blue 341)
The male kestrel (360) and unringed female kestrel bred inside, but other females (584 and 559) wanted the box and already fought with in two severe bouts.
Click here to see the fights between the female with intruders: • Craziest Falcon Fights...
1. 1st fight 583 vs 584:
2. 2nd fight 583 vs 559
3. Then the male fights a female kestrel:
רמת הנדיב משתתפת במאמצים לאישוש האוכלוסיה של הבזים האדומים בישראל מאז 2006. במסגרת פעילות זו, מגיעים לטיפול ברמת הנדיב בזים רבים מדי שנה - מרביתם פרחונים וגוזלים שנפלו מהקן ומיעוטם בוגרים שנפצעו. לאחר טיפול ואקלום, משוחררים בכל שנה כ-50 בזים צעירים, כשעל רגליהם טבעות זיהוי ממתכת ומפלסטיק. לפני שנה החל קינון של זוג בזים אדומים בתיבת קינון ברמת הנדיב. הזכר היה פרט ששוחרר ברמת הנדיב והנקבה הייתה ללא טבעות. הקינון הסתיים בצורה טראגית, כאשר מיינות טרפו את 4 הביצים שהיו בתיבה, והרגו את הבזה. השנה שוב הופיע זוג בזים אדומים, שזהותו אינה ידועה עדיין, על הכלוב, והחל לישון בתיבה. אנחנו מקווים שהשידור הישיר מהתיבה יאפשר לנו לשמור טוב יותר על הבזים, וכמובן שהקינון יצליח.
מצלמת הותקנה ומתוחזקת על-ידי ציפורים אונליין קבוצת צ'רטר\ קבוצת צ'רטר לחקר אקולוגית חיות-הבר' (מכון שמיר למחקר והחוג לגיאוגרפיה ולימודי סביבה באוניברסיטת חיפה) ומומנה על-ידי תורם אנונימי.
Since 2006, Ramat Hanadiv has been participating in efforts to rehabilitate lesser kestrels in Israel. As part of this activity, many lesser kestrels arrive to Ramat Hanadiv yearly - most of them as fledglings and nestlings that fell from nest and some were injured adults. After treatment and acclimatization, around 50 kestrel are ringed with standard aluminum and a plastic color rings are released back to nature from Ramat Hanadiv. In 2020, a wild pair of lesser falcons (The male was ringed) started breeding (laid eggs) in a nesting box but the nesting attempt ended tragically, when invasive common mynas killed the female and ate the 4 eggs. This year another pair of lesser kestrels have started to visit the nest box. We hope that the online camera will allow us to better keep track the kestrels breeding in hope that this year they will succeed.
In 2021 the pair returned, laid 5 eggs and successfully fledged 2 young.
The camera was added and maintained by the Charter Group Birdcams/ Charter Group of Wildlife Ecology (The Shamir Research Institute and the Department of Geography and Environmental Science of the University of Haifa) and funded by a private donor.
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[@YaelSharon3410]

I miss this little guy. Smallest of all and yet the only one brave enough to wrestle the centipede, only to have it stolen at the end. How hungry he must have been to take on the centipede... So sad.

[@user-pt9bg8xe5p]

PERO... DEVORAR UN CIEMPIES? ESE ANIMAL ES NOCIVO, VENENOSO PARA EL ESTÓMAGO DE UN AVE, COMER ESE TIPO DE INSECTOS ES UNA MUERTE SEGURA, HASTA DONDE YO SE.

[@thummie6372]

Brave bird. I’m a human and I’m not brave enough to touch those things, let alone eat it.

[@someguyontheinternet2399]

Parent bird by like: "hmm... one bug, four babies, I'm sure this is enough"

[@hmongdestinyband1259]

Crazy.

[@mommygrandma4658]

That centipede fought until the very end, making it a little difficult to distinguish predator from prey.

[@20PINKluvr]

Its so cool how kestrels can see a tiny centipede from the air above

[@LordProteus]

Imagine having an epic battle with a centipede and then some runt-ass simbling tries to run in and steal it after all the work has been done. If I was that Baby Kestrel I'd eat the sibling after I was done with the Centipede.

[@comepuchas990]

6.30.23

[@ignacioa4114]

cernícalos primilla, tienen las uñas blancas - a diferencia del cernícalo común.

[@LUGER986]

Which cam is this one?

[@YaelSharon3410]

It's the one in Ramat Hanadiv but the footage dates from May 7th, when the baby #4 was still alive.

[@Bopig]

That's hilarious

[@drive9997]

funny

[@trexmidnite]

They have to swallow that disgusting and move on.. thats life..

[@lindacovan8999]

These are not good children

[@salimanahmed-lh7wp]

اطفال شجعان وقتله لايرحمون😊

[@Bigsluttyhoe]

Lol that one bird was all like screw this im hungry your taking to long with that give me it.