Birds pluck their prey's feathers and imprison them in rock “prisons”.
The Eleonora falcon on Mogador island captures other small birds alive, plucks their flight feathers and stuffs them into rock crevices as a reserve food source. The Eleonora falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a bird of prey that breeds in the Mediterranean and off the northwest coast…
A steppe kestrel kills a mallard with a “shadowless” dive
The kestrel's dive of up to 90km/h hit the target, leaving the mallard completely unable to react in time, and was quickly killed. There is a folk saying “Fast like lightning”, implicitly affirming the incredible ability and speed of the falcon in the natural world. …