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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dantheman" data-source="post: 1474553" data-attributes="member: 32998">An ill bird would be a much easier target of course - and  plenty of BH Gulls get ill from botulism/other causes.The only corvid I've seen attacking adult birds were Magpies, in the first case a surprise attack on a Starling from above and behind, pinning it down, whilst it was feeding in the crook of a branch (in that case unsuccessful as it gave out a piercing squeal and the next instant the Magpie was divebombed by a Song Thrush and then a Blackbird, the latter knocking it so hard that it fell off the Starling and almost out of the tree, allowing the Starling to escape), the second also a Starling which was also ambushed from above whilst feeding in short grass below some trees. Took a while, but that one was held down, plucked and eventually killed.Not sure if these other kills in this thread were carried out in the same manner, but can't see why they couldn't be successful in at least some cases.</blockquote>