ML84590591
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Carrying food; Foraging or eating
- Tags
- Watermark
Media notes
At Chudop, shaking a Ring-necked Dove to death. Our local guides all said that this was the first time that they had ever observed, or heard of, a Kori Bustard hunting and killing a dove. Keith Kennedy's photo.
Observation details
At Chudop, hunting and killing Ring-necked Doves. We watched a Kori Bustard not once but twice grab a Ring-necked Dove at the edge of the water hole, shake it to death, and start eating it before a Black-backed Jackal moved in and snatched the dove away. Both our Namibian guide Usko and our South African guide Stu Porter said that they had never seen such a thing. Later in our trip at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, two of the guides there, Cameron, who is a birder, and Kosie, said they had never heard of a Kori killing a dove. Matt Prophet, our birding guide in the Western Cape, concurred. So how unusual is it for a Kori to hunt doves? Did this Kori learn to hunt by watching the Black-backed Jackal hunt doves? This observation does raise questions.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
- Lens
- EF200-400mm f/4L IS USM EXT
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 560 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1200 pixels x 800 pixels
- Original file size
- 289.79 KB