American Kestrel Chick Swallows Entire Snake - June 27, 2018

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    Watch one of the kestrel chicks take quick action to grab a snake that's delivered to the nest box by the female. In a matter of minutes the young raptor manages to swallow it whole despite attempts to grab a bite from its sibling.
    Watch the cams live at www.allaboutbirds.org/cams
    The American Kestrel cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab or Ornithology and the Raptor Resource Project.
    Four downy American Kestrel nestlings are tucked into a gravel-bottomed nest on private property near Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The nest box is located on the side of a traditional limestone-footed barn, overlooking a rolling grassland that slopes away into folded hills and forests. Our partners at the Raptor Resource Project have watched kestrels breed at this site for over 25 years, and the wonderful combination of grassland, forest, and water that surrounds the property is an excellent example of the habitat that kestrels need to survive and thrive. Watch cam.
    The young birds began hatching out of their eggs on June 14th, and the remaining egg in the nest is unlikely to hatch at this point. Over the next 3-4 weeks the nestlings will transform from downy bobbleheads to sleek, dull versions of their parents on a diverse diet of invertebrates, small mammals, and birds (watch this highlight of the female feeding the young). After fledging, the young will continue to be cared for by their parents, remaining near the nest as they learn to hunt and master flight.
    Don't miss the outside view! A second camera has been installed to give views of the nest box opening from the outside so viewers can observe the kestrels' comings and goings, as well as the nestlings once they begin peering outside. To toggle between the two camera views, click the "switch camera" icon in the lower right of the livestream player, next to the settings wheel.
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Komentáře • 201

  • @darkcloud5530
    @darkcloud5530 Před 4 lety +21

    It's just freaky to watch something go down while still alive. Wonder how long it lasted.....

  • @yvonnerogers6429
    @yvonnerogers6429 Před 3 lety +11

    In retaliation the other chicks hid the Alka-Seltzer Plus. 😁 Thanks for the footage! 🙏

  • @shawngatewood3673
    @shawngatewood3673 Před 5 lety +54

    The chick is like what the hell did I just eat

  • @haha-eg8fj
    @haha-eg8fj Před 3 lety +3

    the little chick on the right next to it was like knowing nothing but kept minding its own business and finally realized its brother/sister was having a big feast.

  • @RRW359
    @RRW359 Před 6 lety +13

    These are the most badass raptors I've seen a video of, and I just re-watched Jurassic Park.

  • @MediaProSB101
    @MediaProSB101 Před 6 lety +7

    wow! that was hard work for that little bird. great footage. that tail was a real challenge.

  • @Bigjfoe
    @Bigjfoe Před 2 lety +3

    @:35 until the end… that tail was scary! Wrapped around the baby hawks beak. And then wrapped around her face! Wow!!!!

  • @butterflypk144
    @butterflypk144 Před 5 lety +11

    little brother: hey bro can i have the end part please please please.
    elder brother: Shut the fuhk UP . its stuck in my throat !

  • @maulibu124
    @maulibu124 Před 5 lety +14

    Mom: Dinner
    Kid: all mines
    Mom:😒i guess i got to get more...

  • @madasahatter4489
    @madasahatter4489 Před 4 lety +25

    Love how after finally swallowing it, he looks at his siblings as if to say "Who's the boss now?"

  • @Susanirusta
    @Susanirusta Před 4 lety +4

    Whoa he instantly grew before my eyes. Great video

  • @MsLilStrange
    @MsLilStrange Před 6 lety +36

    The next time your kids complain about what you're serving for dinner, show them this! :-P

    • @mjade1673
      @mjade1673 Před 4 lety +2

      💯😅

    • @user-uw6pb5jr9y
      @user-uw6pb5jr9y Před 3 lety

      Ой ужас, змея живая, птенец выживет.

  • @thehonorablejiveturkeyspoo6370

    It's like the other siblings said "How dare you eat that all by yourself, com'on dude, share that snake"

  • @nandort5901
    @nandort5901 Před 4 lety +2

    Great footage.

  • @DianneCanada
    @DianneCanada Před 6 lety +25

    ROFLMAO! That snake just REFUSES to give up! Thant must feel strange in the gizzard! :)

    • @robertlee-nq6mg
      @robertlee-nq6mg Před 4 lety +2

      Snake body retain reflexes even after death.
      Severed snake head can still bite

  • @connieh.4689
    @connieh.4689 Před 6 lety +23

    Meanwhile little brother keeps saying I want half I want half....

  • @johnlarson1249
    @johnlarson1249 Před 2 lety +1

    At the end, you gotta love the big chick's contribution to this video by standing, stretching its wings, and then finally, firing a shot of projectile bird s#it...LOL.

  • @Troy-Echo
    @Troy-Echo Před rokem

    That snake did NOT want to go peacefully into that good night.

  • @paullevi5598
    @paullevi5598 Před 4 lety +3

    OMG THE SNAKE JUST WOULD'NT GIVE IN

  • @DoubleDogDare54
    @DoubleDogDare54 Před 6 lety +22

    That's why I've never tried to eat live snakes for breakfast....

  • @slowmo338
    @slowmo338 Před 4 lety

    There's always one in every crew. Drinks all the beer, eats all the pizza, smokes all the cigs....etc.

  • @mjade1673
    @mjade1673 Před 4 lety +4

    😅That meal was some work

  • @jerrodcorey25
    @jerrodcorey25 Před 4 lety +2

    Food is fighting back LOL

  • @manishmandal-78
    @manishmandal-78 Před 5 lety +2

    Arrrgh! That's a tricky food mom gave.

  • @carlaoliveira5264
    @carlaoliveira5264 Před 6 lety +8

    When your food fights back! That’s going to be a pain to digest!🙂 I can’t believe they try to eat things whole now?! Like owls!

  • @proudcatmamaof3962
    @proudcatmamaof3962 Před 6 lety +10

    Oh my gosh, I do NOT like snakes at all!!! Seeing it squirming around...Yikes!! Little Kestrel baby gobbled it right up & didn't even share with its siblings!! LoL!
    Thank you Cornell for sharing a neat capture!! 🐍

  • @johnkmatsch
    @johnkmatsch Před 6 lety +4

    impressive

  • @umarmujaahid1136
    @umarmujaahid1136 Před 2 lety

    That bird has stood up (from the rear) & says> "Why he's always getting the bigger food than us, mom?"

  • @dreamieskies056
    @dreamieskies056 Před 5 lety +3

    And people yell at snakes for eating prey.

  • @bernardmcmahon351
    @bernardmcmahon351 Před rokem

    That was amazing

  • @dits3448
    @dits3448 Před 4 lety

    Baby snake feeding baby kestrel

  • @alexandraborkowski1025
    @alexandraborkowski1025 Před 6 lety +48

    Kinda creepy, especially with the snake fighting to get out

    • @DoubleDogDare54
      @DoubleDogDare54 Před 6 lety

      Lucky for the falcon chick it was a garter snake and not a rattler or it wouldn't have gone so well for the chick with the snake still being alive.

    • @TheGreatOne16439
      @TheGreatOne16439 Před 6 lety +24

      The snake wasn't alive, Mom removed it's head. The snakes nerves still twitch after it's dead.

    • @DoubleDogDare54
      @DoubleDogDare54 Před 6 lety +2

      Then mom would have been dead. Ultimately the same result.

  • @MickJ666
    @MickJ666 Před 3 lety

    The 2 chicks at the back do not look impressed 🤣

  • @rs4619
    @rs4619 Před rokem

    Now move to the back of the line, you have eaten enough for a whole week.....says the other chicks.

  • @walkman06
    @walkman06 Před 3 lety

    After big tough meal, back to snuggle 😄

  • @frizzlefrap
    @frizzlefrap Před 5 lety

    the cute little kestrel is devouring a Liborat

  • @VanIyke
    @VanIyke Před 3 lety

    This oughta hold me for 2 weeks.

  • @jwhite9825
    @jwhite9825 Před 4 lety +2

    Give it to Mikey! He will eat anything!

  • @Casper50002
    @Casper50002 Před 12 dny

    Omg that snake was still moving 😅

  • @alias40anon
    @alias40anon Před 4 lety

    Snake meal moved till its last bite.

  • @Bulbagaba992
    @Bulbagaba992 Před 4 lety

    Sorry, but this is just fucking hilarious!

  • @_islandson_7743
    @_islandson_7743 Před 4 lety

    annnnnnnd 2:48. epic wall splatter. well played lil dude. shittin on the walls while mom is gone 🤣

  • @lapwong9095
    @lapwong9095 Před 3 lety

    Just wonder if the snake gave the falcon a dead kiss inside.

  • @Taka_neko
    @Taka_neko Před 6 lety

    Snake tangled around the face looks like a beard! lol

  • @Stephengrimes1972
    @Stephengrimes1972 Před rokem

    1:53 onwards.
    Ahhh the poor little thing was obviously in some discomfort but on it soldiered.

  • @robin2012ism
    @robin2012ism Před 6 lety +2

    That was strange!

  • @2010seajay
    @2010seajay Před 3 lety

    Two minutes later he throws up and the others get to try.

  • @PetreMihai94
    @PetreMihai94 Před 5 lety +7

    I wonder if the snake was trying to kill it from the inside? It might devour the bird's internal stomach walls. That would be a hell of a plot twist

  • @asifasif-fo4li
    @asifasif-fo4li Před 4 lety

    Looks like little but how big it's mouth & stomach ,wonder the skill that little ones has to manage to swallow

  • @PaperGrape
    @PaperGrape Před 3 lety

    "Breakfast ain't easy sometimes

  • @Mi-yc3oy
    @Mi-yc3oy Před 6 lety +11

    I've been saying for years now people who use the phrase, "when pigs fly.." , clearly do not interact with wild birds. O.0

  • @BillyAlabama
    @BillyAlabama Před 3 lety

    That’s amazing he/she could eat the whole thing.

  • @johnlarson1249
    @johnlarson1249 Před 2 lety

    A whole snake consumed for lunch...still 'slithering' somewhat at meal service time...an exhaustive nightmare to finally "swallow...and keep it down."
    Man, that just spells major indigestion in about 20 minutes' time.

  • @u235u235u235
    @u235u235u235 Před 5 lety +3

    swallow whole no chewing!!

  • @MisfitsFiendClub138
    @MisfitsFiendClub138 Před 3 lety

    Like a scene from Alien 🤣

  • @goshawkeyesii1692
    @goshawkeyesii1692 Před 6 lety

    Beautiful!!

  • @JosephStill-in
    @JosephStill-in Před 2 lety

    Snake? What snake?

  • @TheScaletIbisNW
    @TheScaletIbisNW Před 6 lety

    "I'm not sharing bitches!"

  • @ellem686
    @ellem686 Před 6 lety +5

    RIP the poor eaten alive snake

    • @TheGreatOne16439
      @TheGreatOne16439 Před 6 lety +5

      Actually it was headless and those were just its nerves twitching

  • @jonatasaugusto5659
    @jonatasaugusto5659 Před 5 lety +8

    everyone's lunch, one ate kkkkkk

    • @user-uv1cf9wb8h
      @user-uv1cf9wb8h Před 4 lety

      Lol, this is bird, S evolution to become a killer.

  • @joeyluvgirls
    @joeyluvgirls Před 3 lety

    Heartburn

  • @Nathalie_MR
    @Nathalie_MR Před 6 lety +2

    WOW!

  • @exessex3522
    @exessex3522 Před 3 lety

    That should keep it going for a while...

  • @vicious3526
    @vicious3526 Před 3 lety

    lol, it's trying to escape!

  • @ramkumarsridharan
    @ramkumarsridharan Před 3 lety

    wow, that's one long meal... lol

  • @m.rodrigolemus6224
    @m.rodrigolemus6224 Před 4 lety +3

    When you chew more than you can swallow... Next time, Mom needs to cut it in four pieces.👍😉

  • @jamzmusic2408
    @jamzmusic2408 Před 2 lety

    Dosnt the snake in his throat dats crepy

  • @starter47990
    @starter47990 Před 4 lety

    Sharing is not caring

  • @charityzisengwe5408
    @charityzisengwe5408 Před 4 lety +1

    The first baby in line grabbed the whole buffet by himself. Reminds me of some place where this used to happen in the human world where a few ppl in line would take all the food and the rest would go hungry. And the mom didn't bother to cut it up. She just went back to hunt again.

  • @user-uy1wz9dw6v
    @user-uy1wz9dw6v Před 5 lety +3

    Попробую завтра так же сожрать связку сосисок, не разрезая на штуки!

    • @milana517
      @milana517 Před 5 lety +2

      🤣🤣 Убил ваш коммент 😂😂

  • @Nightmare026
    @Nightmare026 Před 5 lety +2

    2:46 Slow motion

    • @Fooz7
      @Fooz7 Před 5 lety

      Nightmare he just shat on the wall lmao

  • @vivianoshea1083
    @vivianoshea1083 Před 6 lety +2

    Surprised mom didn't pull it out. She generally pulls out anything to big. It definitely looked dead.

  • @goverim
    @goverim Před 3 lety

    the snake is heavier and bigger than the chick :D

  • @taze27
    @taze27 Před 3 lety

    Its like eating spaghetti!

  • @user-tq4nu9jc5b
    @user-tq4nu9jc5b Před 3 lety

    Oh my god this snake is to share little chick

  • @sacredsocrates9055
    @sacredsocrates9055 Před 5 lety

    That's what you get from not sharing

  • @samscratch4867
    @samscratch4867 Před 5 lety +4

    I wonder if the snake can still bite from the inside of it

    • @MrExEssex
      @MrExEssex Před 4 lety

      Raptors usually do severe damage to the head end of a snake. The movement is just the death throes of a soon-to-be ex-snake.

    • @samscratch4867
      @samscratch4867 Před 4 lety

      @@MrExEssex That's pretty cool, I didn't know that

  • @clingonWarbird
    @clingonWarbird Před 6 lety

    the other chicks are saying where did it go bro???

  • @janetierney234
    @janetierney234 Před 5 lety +7

    OMG. I can't believe I ate the whole thing!

    • @FlexBeanbag
      @FlexBeanbag Před 3 lety

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  • @crittercrazy3805
    @crittercrazy3805 Před 6 lety +2

    YIKES!!!

  • @a.w.3438
    @a.w.3438 Před 4 lety

    A baby eating a baby...such is nature!

  • @TheGreatOne16439
    @TheGreatOne16439 Před 6 lety +9

    I've been watching the live stream and I'm curious as to what are those black rodents that Mom catches so frequently? I'm also amazed at how the chicks can swallow prey so big.

    • @TheGreatOne16439
      @TheGreatOne16439 Před 6 lety +2

      Gotcha! I noticed that Mom's been catching a lotta voles, the hunting must be good for her lately.

    • @DoubleDogDare54
      @DoubleDogDare54 Před 6 lety +3

      Those are voles. They look big in the live feed but they are actually smaller than your average field mouse.

    • @billoftt1
      @billoftt1 Před 5 lety

      They just look bigger because that mother Kestrel is only about six inches tall.

    • @latheesnanthini7500
      @latheesnanthini7500 Před 2 lety

      Hi I i@@TheGreatOne16439

    • @latheesnanthini7500
      @latheesnanthini7500 Před 2 lety

      @@TheGreatOne16439 is

  • @creativitymetalsscrapwaffe409

    Snake still living in you stomach

  • @VanIyke
    @VanIyke Před 3 lety

    SNAKE. I ain't going down that easy missy. Thats a sssss to you.

  • @Abdullah-sh8gj
    @Abdullah-sh8gj Před 4 lety

    Ohh 😮 very nice

  • @eddihaskell
    @eddihaskell Před 5 lety +2

    Always important to kill your food before you awallow it!

  • @rocioflorentin7300
    @rocioflorentin7300 Před 6 lety +3

    Líke si sos el que mas ama a los animales

  • @kennydowson8641
    @kennydowson8641 Před 5 lety

    WOW IT'S STILL ALIVE

    • @akshaykotian3063
      @akshaykotian3063 Před 2 lety

      Nope. Head is incapacitated by mama. Its just the nerves twitching

  • @paijo6508
    @paijo6508 Před 2 lety

    Wow ngeri trmsuk seng ngopeni manuk iku Ra neng hutan n kandang besi,hehe

  • @dickensbob6086
    @dickensbob6086 Před 5 lety

    Hard to digest

  • @joesezzz4324
    @joesezzz4324 Před 3 lety

    What a time to wakeup from hibernation...

  • @paulasj_aves
    @paulasj_aves Před 4 lety

    This chick have a lot of hungry 😳🍴🐍

  • @DjonnyKrajkatoaSimataIrMsc

    I wondrr if the snake is smart enough to it inside out

  • @missk.1301
    @missk.1301 Před 5 lety

    dang.......'snake-in-my-eye', ouch!

  • @greenlover247
    @greenlover247 Před 4 lety

    a worm

  • @sunnykim4093
    @sunnykim4093 Před 2 lety

    우와~~~~~

  • @rocioflorentin7300
    @rocioflorentin7300 Před 6 lety +2

    Primeraaa😃😃

  • @LifeOdysseyMotivation
    @LifeOdysseyMotivation Před 5 lety +8

    *I feel pity for the others, and it's like painful watching him struggling to swallow that snake, and annoying at the same time. Haisttttt.... nature.*

  • @ronveri2838
    @ronveri2838 Před 5 lety

    he shouldn't be hungry for awhile

  • @user-ub2wr9zm1h
    @user-ub2wr9zm1h Před 4 lety

    얘새들아막내도구박않고그래도잘나눠먹는구나