Northern Goshawk (The Most Aggressive American Raptor)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- The Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is a medium-large raptor in the family Accipitridae, which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.
The Northern Goshawks are secretive birds that typically live in large tracts of forest, so they are hard to find. The Northern Goshawk is an extremely secretive and elusive woodland raptor that avoids humans and human activity. Goshawks range from Alaska and Canada south to California in the west and southern New England and the Appalachian Mountains in the east. The northern goshawk nests in mature, unfragmented forests. It is important that those forests are safeguarded from human activity and development. Breeding habitats for goshawks are forests that include large-sized trees, a closed canopy, and an open understory.
The Northern Goshawks build stick nests. It is primarily built by the female. Sometimes their nesting territories may contain several nests that are constructed over the years. Nests are located in large deciduous trees on large branches or in the main forks of trees. It is constructed of sticks and twigs and lined with bark strips, conifer needles, and down feathers.
The Northern Goshawks are monogamous, and the pair bonds are often long-term. Both birds aggressively defend the nest, attacking any interloper, including humans. The adult is pale whitish-gray below with faint, black barring on the underbody. The topside is blue-gray with a blackhead and bold white eye-line. Adult males are often bluer above than females. The eye is dark red. The juvenile is whitish below with extensive dark streaking throughout, even on the under tail coverts. A few are lightly streaked. Upperside is brown with pale mottling along the upper wing coverts that form a narrow "bar." The juvenile also has a broad, whitish eye-line. The eye is yellow slowly becoming red after a few years.
The Northern Goshawks are opportunistic, eating a wide variety of prey. Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and another medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk. Northern Goshawks hunt inside the forest or along its edge; they take their prey by putting on short bursts of amazingly fast flight, often twisting among branches and crashing through thickets in the intensity of pursuit. Hunts by perching quietly at mid-levels in trees, watching for prey, often moving from one perch to another. When prey is spotted, hawk attacks with a short flight, putting on a great burst of speed and often plunging through tangled branches and thickets in pursuit of quarry. Sometimes searches for prey by flying low through woods.
The Northern Goshawks are, for the most part, non-migratory. Some birds move to lower elevations in the winter, and irruptive movements into more southern areas occur occasionally, generally in response to the collapse of the prey population.
The Northern Goshawks depend entirely on extensive stands of mature, old-growth forests. Goshawk presence is an indicator of forest maturity and low human disturbance. Unfortunately, as mature and old-growth forests become rarer and rarer, so do goshawks. Logging is the largest threat to Northern Goshawks. As logging pressures have increased, the goshawk has experienced population declines as a result of severe habitat loss and degradation. Additionally, the noise and disruption caused by intense industrial logging operations such as road building, heavy machinery operations, and logging truck traffic, have caused nest failure, especially during pair bonding, nest-building, and incubation.
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This is one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen in my entire life...
videographer deserves an award. well done
Hell yeah, one of the most impressive sequences ever!
Sound editor missed the mark in my opinion lol
Lol at 1:27 the chipmunk was like " well he's dead" and ran off
I have a Goshawk visiting my backyard this morning twice. Luckily I have my windows open and heard the birds having a fit. I ran to the window and saw him on the neighbors privacy fence sitting, then flying off. Not sure if he had caught a bird. A little later the chorus began again of fitful warning calls. Looked again at my birch tree in my backyard to see a Blue Jay calling out his warning over and over again. Finally the Goshawk flew out of the tree very close to the Blue Jay. I didn't see him at all until he flew off being chased by the birds. The Blue Jay was first to fly after him. Beautiful rapter. What a morning!
great video but!! You ruined it for me, number 1. you play the sounds of the wings of a pigeon instead of recording from the hawk itself! 2 You insert three hawks in one scene, an adult, then a young one, then a falconry tamed with rings. 3 throughout the video you can hear the water bubbling. Good staff, but you should have done it more seriously
Rarely do I see criticism in the comment section so direct, coherent, and the points are sound. A year late, but I wanna say I appreciate it
Can’t beat a good wild goshawk video. The most beautiful bird of prey. It’s one of my dreams to see a wild one.
That's not a wild goshawk and it's not a American goshawk either
All you need to know about Northern goshawk: ua-cam.com/video/PJwbK-6Sd8c/v-deo.html
Wrong. Pass along what you're smoking
You will see one. How bout a golden eagle?
I was just attacked earlier today by a very aggressive American Goshawk on a hike. Dive-bombed my face three times, missing me by a foot at the most. I had to dive backwards to avoid a strike. Crazy experience! Amazing bird!!!!
Those are not North America Goshawks. They’re European Northern Goshawks. The difference is subtle but it’s there.
goshawks are the ultimate "fighter jets" of the raptor world...not fastest, but fastest off the mark, and most maneuverable...some scientific work, with a Goshawk flying through a clear tube, barely bigger than its body, and then launching itself out the end with assist from its legs! just astounding..
Beautiful video.
Goshawks are basically just heavyweight sparrowhawks. They have the agility of the sparrowhawk to weave through dense vegetation and the strength to take down large prey items including squirrels
Stunning!
Beautiful work
Nice, but your promo shot should use a NA Gos vs. a European Gos.
Breath of the Wild vibes beautiful
Cool 😎 thanks for the viewing time today
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That was amazing.
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How do you even get video footage of this?
Fabulous video 😍 great sharing
Big thumbs up 👍
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Beautiful bird of prey.
Beautiful creature
All the animals are thinking the same thing.."Somebody is about to get it"..
What a wonderful animal life it is !
Great camera work. What kind of tripod head do you use and lens?
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You got its scientific name completely wrong, its correct scientific name is actually Astur gentilis.
Amazing goshawk hunting 👍
Amazing...cool videos...😎😎
awesome
We have 1 that hangs around the house on occasion.
You just lost your friend, little guy.
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Ini film apa bang?
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Nice camera work ; but to be accurate the Redtailed hawk is much more likely to take larger game and much more powerful. Secondly the coops gram per gram is the most aggressive accipiter in NA.
Wtf
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I find videos like this to be overly contrived. The music is too loud, distracting, unnecessary. Also, who says goshawks are the most aggressive predators? That's entirely an opinion.
Intensly boring