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Unusual hitcher
« on: July 21, 2015, 09:17:41 PM »



crow rides atop bald eagle (Photo: Phoo Chan/Media Drum World)

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Re: Unusual hitcher
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2015, 09:33:57 PM »

from snopes.com...


An American Crow

FACT CHECK:   Do photographs show a crow landing on and riding atop an eagle in flight?



Claim: Photographs show a crow landing on and riding atop an eagle in flight.

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Re: Unusual hitcher
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2015, 09:36:36 PM »

TRUE

Example:    [Collected via email, July 2015]

In this day and age when anything can be photoshopped, I simply cannot believe these are real pictures.



Origins:   In July 2015, a series of photographs purportedly showing a crow landing on and riding atop the back of an eagle in flight were a subject of social media fascination:



The photographs, which followed on the heels of similar animal ride-hitching images such as a weasel riding a woodpecker and a raccoon riding an alligator, left many viewers questioning their authenticity.

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Re: Unusual hitcher
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2015, 09:39:17 PM »

Although some viewers disclaimed the above-displayed photographs as depicting an aerodynamically impossible activity, according to Kevin McGowan, a biologist who specializes in crow behavior, they are indeed real:

“This would be kind of like a dog chasing a car and jumping up” on it, says McGowan. “Dogs always want to catch the car, but they never know what they’d do if they get it.”

But why didn’t the eagle react to the crow landing? Since the crow wasn’t pecking, it didn’t warrant the Eagle’s attention.

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Re: Unusual hitcher
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2015, 09:40:11 PM »

As the largest bird of prey, eagles are harassed nonstop by birds of all species. Sometimes the hecklers are so persistent, it looks like the eagles “are being followed by mosquitoes,” says McGowan.



Phoo Chan, the bird photographer who snapped the photographs back in May 2014, offered a similar explanation on his 500px page:

Crows are known for aggressively harrassing other raptors that are much bigger in size when spotted in their territories and usually these ‘intruders’ simply retreat without much fuss.

However, in this frame the crow did not seem to harrass the bald eagle at such close proximity and neither did the bald eagle seem to mind the crow’s presence invading its personal space. What made it even more bizzare was that the crow even made a brief stop on the back of the eagle as if it was taking a free scenic ride and the eagle simply obliged.

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Re: Unusual hitcher
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2015, 09:41:32 PM »

Chan’s photographs may seemingly depict an impossible (or at least one in a million) scene, but images of crows “riding” eagles abound online. In 2012, for example, Caters News photographer Hyeongchol Kim captured a similar occurrence in South Korea:

I saw the crow flying towards the much bigger eagle, and prepared myself to capture the fight on camera. However, the bird just hovered above the eagle for a few seconds – and then appeared to just latch onto his back.

The eagle didn’t seem to mind at all — I think they must have been friends.



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Re: Unusual hitcher
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2015, 10:18:53 PM »
...than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

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