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Yes, what you are seeing here is a crow actually landing on the back of a Bald Eagle mid-flight! California-based bird photographer Phoo Chan was very lucky to witness this one-in-a-lifetime event.
Crows and other corvids are known for harassing raptors much bigger than themselves that come near their territories, a behaviour known as mobbing. Although mobbing mostly consists of birds flying about the intrudor, they often also dive bomb, squawk and even defecate on the predator. However, in this photo the crow managed to get one step further, and to actually land on its back!
The encounter lasted just a few seconds and luckily for the crow the bald eagle peacefully went its own way, but still giving the crow the ride of his life! How Phoo Chan managed to get this amazing shot? “You have to be in the right place at the right time”. (via ThisisColossal)
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