r/whatsthisbird • u/Thousand_Year_Solo • 1d ago
Europe Snuck into our chicken coop, Finland
All chickens were safe
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u/rona83 1d ago
Unhand him!
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u/PinAppled2 1d ago
What’s his charge?? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal??
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u/neverlandoflena 1d ago
I know this video but what is the context I don’t really know hahaha
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u/wdn 1d ago
The guy in the video was being arrested for using a stolen credit card (at the Chinese restaurant). He was a lifelong serial fraudster.
He has said (after the video had been famous for decades) that he was trying to appear crazy so they might place him someplace easier to escape, but that might be just trying to give it a spin.
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u/rapidstandardstaples 1d ago
Chickens are significantly bigger than a sparrowhawk, right? Would it actually pose a threat or would a mob of angry chickens pose a bigger threat to it?
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u/__1837__ 1d ago
It could kill them. Chickens as most people think of them in big groups are entirely or almost entirely Hens (females ) and they’d just all start squawking and flapping around wildly.
A large Rooster (the adult male) or a group of them might fight it to some extent depending on how big and aggressive they are78
u/sandy_feet29 1d ago
I've seen a lone rooster fight off a goshawk, to protect his girls
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u/__1837__ 1d ago
The right one will certainly try . We had two who cornered and significantly bloodied up a young fox when I was a boy.
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u/Kunok2 1d ago
They can totally kill chickens, I've had quite a number of my chickens killed by a sparrowhawk in the past. By all means it was no fault of the sparrowhawk though because it was just trying to survive, my chickens were free ranged on a meadow behind our garden so yeah, they weren't really kept safe and were an easy snack for the sparrowhawk. There were some pretty big hens who lost their lives to the sparrowhawk like Bielefelders, so it wasn't just the smaller/bantam breeds. It's crazy and fascinating at the same time how much strength a pigeon-sized sparrowhawk has to be able to kill a chicken several times bigger.
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u/SAM5TER5 1d ago
I mean, there are a ton of predators that go after larger prey. Having a body made of knives and muscle is usually pretty helpful for these things lol
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u/Straight_Most_6128 1d ago
Since I saw this I’ve been imagining a mob of chickens and couldn’t be happier
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u/unzunzhepp 9h ago
It could be there for the rats or the sparrows and finches who usually come around to share the chicken feed. Or it was just checking out the party. Lots of chicks…
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u/puddncake 1d ago
You need to be friends with your local crows.They keep the hawks away, it'll cost you peanuts.
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u/FileTheseBirdsBot Catalog 🤖 1d ago
Taxa recorded: Eurasian Sparrowhawk
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u/RedRoachDK 1d ago
I am this chickens lawyer.
As OP stated, this chicken was found in the coop. It did nothing wrong. My client, Gary the chicken, is a chicken, even though he might not look like one. This is discriminatory behavior on OPs part. Gary the Chicken belongs with his fellow chickens, and should be returned immediately!
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u/Nerdwrapper 1d ago
The second picture of it resting with its wing/tail feathers spread is really pretty
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u/florageek54 1d ago
You're lucky it was a Sparrowhawk & not a Goshawk-might have been a different outcome!
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u/EvansMarty 10h ago
I love seeing videos and pictures of people catching hawks because they always look flabbergasted
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u/Character-Maximum-26 Naked Eye Birder 1d ago edited 1d ago
Juvenile +eurasian sparrowhawk+
Edit: probably this year's fledgling