Guy Filmed Doing ‘Drive-By’ On Birds With Hawk

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

This is the moment a guy launches a hawk out of a moving van window in a 'drive-by' attack on some birds:

The owner of the bird of prey shared the clip on TikTok (@huntingwithhawks) alongside the caption: "Couple of kills today".

In the video, you can see him clutching on to the animal in the passenger seat of the vehicle before spotting what looks like a regular bird before throwing the hawk out of the window where it heads right for it's target.

Almost immediately after the bird leaves the van, the owner jumps out and runs over - potentially to retrieve it.

TikTok/huntingwithhawks

In another one of his videos, he writes: "First day out with the bird this season."

His clips have been getting millions of views, with the most recent raking in 16.6 million up to now.

The videos have caused a stir on the video-sharing platform with some people agreeing with what he's doing and others certainly not.

Someone who is all for it wrote: "Pigeons are a plague on England, horrible things. Keep up the good work mate it's very much needed."

On the other hand, someone said: "You need a new hobby bro. This doesn't feel right..."

TikTok/huntingwithhawks

Some viewers claim to be able to see children nearby in the video and told the guy how dangerous it is, with one writing: "This is perfectly fine on private land but in public with kids in the park on the third one is sooo dangerous."

The original poster has hit back at any comments like this, explaining: "This hawk was trained by my 12-year-old brother it knows what to go for for and [what] not to go for it will not harm children."

Some have questioned the legality of what the guy's doing but, according to BirdTrader, falconry is legal in the UK under certain conditions.

First of all, licenses to breed birds of prey are no longer available in the UK so you can only procure birds of prey if they have been bred in captivity.

Then, if you wish to hunt with the birds, you must obtain a licence from the government to 'kill wild birds in the course of falconry'.

According to Newsweek, this allows birds such as skylarks, starlings, magpies, rooks and feral pigeons to be killed.

Topics: News, No-Article-Matching, Animals

Rebecca Shepherd

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