Cannible magpies.

[Neil Cooney. 1]

A friend was loseing eggs to magpies so I gave him a larson. He caught 14 and a grey crow in 10 days when I mentioned to him to keep me a magpie for another larson trap.

He rang me 10 o clock last night and said there was 2 in the trap. I went out this morning to kill one and take the other.

The decoy bird was dead, pulled over to one side of the trap to one of the catching areas. The bird had a hole made between the anus and leg and a lot of the innards were eaten.

Mesh is 1'' . Anyone ever see this.

[Tis TM 8]

A friend was loseing eggs to magpies so I gave him a larson. He caught 14 and a grey crow in 10 days when I mentioned to him to keep me a magpie for another larson trap.

He rang me 10 o clock last night and said there was 2 in the trap. I went out this morning to kill one and take the other.

The decoy bird was dead, pulled over to one side of the trap to one of the catching areas. The bird had a hole made between the anus and leg and a lot of the innards were eaten.

Mesh is 1'' . Anyone ever see this.

 

Well the main reason magpies go in the trap is to get to the decoy bird to attack it, to get it off thier patch. They will kill stranger birds, and I guess if they are hungry enough, they'll eat thier own kind too.

Its actually amazing how much a magpie eats to stay healthy, it doesn't take them long to get hungry.

 

Keep trapping

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

The bird had a hole made between the anus and leg and a lot of the innards were eaten.

 

 

Standard operating proceedure with corvids :sick: 'Gut Suckers'. Is it any wonder they need to die?

[Tis TM 8]

The bird had a hole made between the anus and leg and a lot of the innards were eaten.

 

 

Standard operating proceedure with corvids :sick: 'Gut Suckers'. Is it any wonder they need to die?

 

Yeah, I've seen many a cast sheep, still alive with partial entrails pulled out, or an eye or two taken They go for the easy meat

[ianrob 2]

The bird had a hole made between the anus and leg and a lot of the innards were eaten.

 

 

Standard operating proceedure with corvids :sick: 'Gut Suckers'. Is it any wonder they need to die?

 

Yeah, I've seen many a cast sheep, still alive with partial entrails pulled out, or an eye or two taken They go for the easy meat

The most graphic example I saw was a few years back in the winter time. It had been snowing and a sheep had got stuck on her back, I saw her from a fair distance awayand she looked very dark. Whe I got there the crows had gone with her eyes and there was about an 8 foot circle of sprayed blood on the snow where she had been shaking her head, to cure the problem. I phoned the farmer, who I assume got her destroyed. They don't take prisoners or make many friends our corvid bedfellows, but they make testing adversaries. There is always the possibility that they ate the eyes to see them through the week I suppose though.

[Neil Cooney. 1]

I've seen the damage to sheep before but cannibalism is new to me.

The larson is quiet spacious so I reckon the newly captured bird must have nailed the decoy bird through the wire and worried it to death by holding on.

I know it wasn't rats as the dog food fed to the bird was untouched. I've seen rats eat through a foxes anus before and feed in the body cavity.

Pity as I had that bird 6 months and had taken a lot of pests with him.

The bird that killed him is going to a friend tomorrow who's looseing young chickens to magpies.

He's says a couple swoop down attacking the hen and scattering the brood, as the brood panics in all directions the magpies pick them off.

 

And to think that Mickey Mouse politician John Gormley had the magpie and grey crow on the protected species list.

[Guest pip]

Neil when i got up yesterday morning i looked out the window to check the trap and i had caught one but they where fighting through the mesh,so he had to go asap as i didn t want him doing my call bird in.I had one kill my call bird last year similar to your circumstances.