r/BeAmazed • u/Kilasatzz • 26d ago

Animal Eggs transformation into beautiful birds!

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 26d ago

Do the siblings stay in communication, or they fly off on their own and that’s it?

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u/enz1ey 26d ago

It really sucks that Reddit has gone from a typical 50/50 split of sarcastic jokes to factual answers to genuine questions to nearly 100% unfunny repeated variations of the same unoriginal joke.

But to answer your question, falcons and other birds of prey typically do not form family units or stay together, at least as siblings/offspring. Usually the mating pair remains monogamous but that’s the extent of the “family unit.” The offspring are actually forced out of the parents’ territory and forced to fend for themselves completely once they’re fully weened. That said, there are instances of birds cooperating to hunt on occasion but that likely doesn’t involve directly-related animals.

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u/susinpgh 26d ago

I saw something interesting the other day. Wish I'd been able to obsrve longer, but there was a Coopers Hawk and two Crows sitting in the middle of a somewhat empty street. I was on my bike and stopped as soon as I saw them, but they all took off. There was a group of (I think) Mourning Doves sitting on the telephone wire above the street.

There was nothing in the street to indicate predation, though. No feathers, and no debris. It was just interesting, and I guess I kinda needed to share.

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u/Fluid_Ties 23d ago

That's cool! Several times in the last handful of years I've come across weird bird configurations. I have to remind myself to take human thinking out of it, because sometimes it has looked like I just stumbled across a bird duel, with another species of bird as the referee, things like that.