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Message: <blockquote data-quote="edenwatcher" data-source="post: 1474876" data-attributes="member: 8070">The gull did look sickly, but the pigeon did not.  Crow kills take a long time - they seem to favour jumping on the victim's back and pecking the skull until it dies.  I didn't have a clear view of the godwit incident, the godwit couldn't fly when it was finished off.  There had been a significant kerfuffle a few minutes earlier - birds flying everyhere.   I wonder if the crow had grabbed the godwit by a wing in mid-air.  Crows do seem to like flying at potential prey just to see what happens.Rob</blockquote>