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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by uchennamani(m): 6:38pm On Jul 10, 2025

dayveed1:
As I walked outside the door after a heavy down pour this morning. I saw this strange bird seeking shelter on the Clothsline in my balcony. I would have ignored her on a good day but she was looking at me and following me with her big yellow eyes. Her curiosity caught my attention so I snuck to her blind spot and kidnapped her. She put up a little fight and tried to bite me twice. I did a little research to satisfy my own curiosity. Google said it's some type of Falcon "Kestrel"

I'd probably end up releasing it. I don't think she can be domesticated.

Has anyone encountered or seen this type of bird before?

Abeg, no chop am o.

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by jericco1(m): 6:43pm On Jul 10, 2025

This is a kestrel

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by daniwise(m): 6:44pm On Jul 10, 2025

dayveed1:
some guys on my WhatsApp offered me money to sell it to them for ritual purpose. Omo I shock

,what did you do?

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by SweetDipBenny(m): 6:48pm On Jul 10, 2025

Good. Free the bird

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by NLKing01: 6:51pm On Jul 10, 2025

This is Kestrel (also known as European Kestrel, Eurasian Kestrel, or Old World Kestrel)

dayveed1:
As I walked outside the door after a heavy down pour this morning. I saw this strange bird seeking shelter on the Clothsline in my balcony. I would have ignored her on a good day but she was looking at me and following me with her big yellow eyes. Her curiosity caught my attention so I snuck to her blind spot and kidnapped her. She put up a little fight and tried to bite me twice. I did a little research to satisfy my own curiosity. Google said it's some type of Falcon "Kestrel"

I'd probably end up releasing it. I don't think she can be domesticated.

Has anyone encountered or seen this type of bird before?

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by edwinbelo7: 6:53pm On Jul 10, 2025

It is a falcon. OP, please how did you catch this?. Was it a trap you set or what? I hear falcons are expensive.

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by NothingDoMe: 7:14pm On Jul 10, 2025

dayveed1:
As I walked outside the door after a heavy down pour this morning. I saw this strange bird seeking shelter on the Clothsline in my balcony. I would have ignored her on a good day but she was looking at me and following me with her big yellow eyes. Her curiosity caught my attention so I snuck to her blind spot and kidnapped her. She put up a little fight and tried to bite me twice. I did a little research to satisfy my own curiosity. Google said it's some type of Falcon "Kestrel"

I'd probably end up releasing it. I don't think she can be domesticated.

Has anyone encountered or seen this type of bird before?

Might be a Merlin. Looks like a Peregrine but much smaller.

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Kayberg: 8:26pm On Jul 10, 2025

dkidd:
Lol that's the fastest animal on earth. I still wonder how the OP catch am sef... On a second look it might not be a Peregrine falcon which is supposedly the fastest animal on earth but a kestrel falcon. Young Peregrines look like kestrels too I didn't get a good look at the underbelly side to check something

I wonder how he caught it too!
Perhaps because it was raining.

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Kayberg: 8:29pm On Jul 10, 2025

uchennamani:
Abeg, no chop am o.

You too know the average Nigerian when it comes to eating things that ain't human.

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by timisquare82(m): 8:31pm On Jul 10, 2025

It's called kidnapper, it's a chick kidnapper (asa).

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by GABRIEL6036: 8:35pm On Jul 10, 2025

Eye iya mi agba 😁

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by SeriouslySense(m): 9:03pm On Jul 10, 2025

you,

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CandyOps:
Oh dear… that’s a rare species of bird from the depths of the Amazon rainforest. It's known for its ability to turn invisible when threatened and can only be seen by people who are color blind. Handle it carefully, as it's usually considered a bad omen when close encounters with humans such as this happens. And if you read this up till this point I want you to know that I have no freaking idea WTH I’m talking about

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by SeriouslySense(m): 9:06pm On Jul 10, 2025

, I wish i saw this for myself.

AntiChristian:
That is awon iya osoronga!

Village people!

That fly around in the night looking for prey to suck their red blood or eath their meat!

I remember one RCCG young girl who happened to be a neighour few years back in Bariga.

Na so she see one injured dove think say na witch! She come dey shout make holy ghost fire burn am, hoping to really see fire burn the poor animal.

In the end she concluded that the dove dey stubborn as she no gree catch fire to burn!

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by olawonder(m): 10:30pm On Jul 10, 2025

Falcon ko, kung fu ni… mumu kids too full Nairaland! Bird that’s common everywhere in Nigeria you’re comparing to falcons, they don’t even look near alike!

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by OgaTheTop2: 10:55pm On Jul 10, 2025

CandyOps:
Oh dear… that’s a rare species of bird from the depths of the Amazon rainforest. It's known for its ability to turn invisible when threatened and can only be seen by people who are color blind. Handle it carefully, as it's usually considered a bad omen when close encounters with humans such as this happens. And if you read this up till this point I want you to know that I have no freaking idea WTH I’m talking about

Werey ni e angry

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Pickieox(m): 2:51am On Jul 11, 2025

dayveed1:
I thought as much. Because even though she's still young. She is very big for her age and her claws are very long. I would have Loved to cater for her but she's been trying to attack me at every opportunity she gets.

UPDATE : I released it after many failed attempts to feed it. She flew away gracefully. It was a precious experience to share with my kids.

Damn it! Why will you allow that treasure to fly away?

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Ebenezer2021(m): 2:57am On Jul 11, 2025

dayveed1:
I thought as much. Because even though she's still young. She is very big for her age and her claws are very long. I would have Loved to cater for her but she's been trying to attack me at every opportunity she gets.

UPDATE : I released it after many failed attempts to feed it. She flew away gracefully. It was a precious experience to share with my kids.

that's a kestrel, part of the hawk and kite family, it's a bird of prey that feeds on lizards, small snakes and chicks.
It can't be domesticated

OKOATA:
Lizard and rat is their best food. Lizards avoids them like plague. I even recorded a time one was eating lizard across my fence. "Falcon." Very fast and agile.

ARISHEM:
That is Lizards nightmare. When they see her they take cover immediately.

Una sabi

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Ebenezer2021(m): 2:59am On Jul 11, 2025

Creamypie:
Falcon. I had one as pet for 8 years.very lovely and sensible bird.I didnt cage it. It would fly out and come back home to us.sometimes feeding from my hand

lies.
How wild bird go fly out and still come back to you guys

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Lixusheng(m): 4:59am On Jul 11, 2025

Lucifyre:
It's a Common Kestrel which belongs to the Falcon species or family

U sabi bird jare
... I just dey laff as som ppl dey sey na peregrine grin

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Abusk(m): 8:17am On Jul 11, 2025

That's definitely a kestrel. Aka common kestrel or Eurasian kestrel

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Offpoint1: 11:17am On Jul 11, 2025

dayveed1:
I thought as much. Because even though she's still young. She is very big for her age and her claws are very long. I would have Loved to cater for her but she's been trying to attack me at every opportunity she gets.

UPDATE : I released it after many failed attempts to feed it. She flew away gracefully. It was a precious experience to share with my kids.

That's the world fastest animal you let go... That's where the American Sealth B2 design idea came from

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Mrexcell(m): 11:56am On Jul 11, 2025

Creamypie:
Falcon. I had one as pet for 8 years.very lovely and sensible bird.I didnt cage it. It would fly out and come back home to us.sometimes feeding from my hand

Wow that's really very impressive.

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Thomasankara(m): 12:09pm On Jul 11, 2025

[/color]are U kidding 🙄 you really domesticated a falcon[color=#770077]

Creamypie:
Falcon. I had one as pet for 8 years.very lovely and sensible bird.I didnt cage it. It would fly out and come back home to us.sometimes feeding from my hand

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Shellsploit: 12:19pm On Jul 11, 2025

Justiceleague1:
Op rake it easy na,before you start rapping "as I walked through the valley of the shadow of death,I take a look at my life and realise there's not....."

And I was listening to this track when I stumbled upon your comment

And please please please,on behalf of all godly good people,free that bird...most likely a falcon

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Nobody: 1:24pm On Jul 11, 2025*

kay29000:
Okay. Can you remember what you were feeding it? I know it is carnivorous.

mostly marshed fish and meat. They also eat seeds

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Nobody: 1:25pm On Jul 11, 2025

Thomasankara:
[/color]are U kidding 🙄 you really domesticated a falcon[color=#770077]

right from when it was very small. It got used to humans around it.

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Nobody: 1:26pm On Jul 11, 2025

Ebenezer2021:
lies.
How wild bird go fly out and still come back to you guys

na from small pi kin I seize am from first owner

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by kay29000(m): 4:47pm On Jul 11, 2025

Creamypie:
mostly marshes fish and meat. They also eat seeds

Okay

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by Desusi: 11:54am On Jul 12, 2025

ultraviolet27:
Pray because she is seeing falcons lately?lmao this una religious mentality ehn don't you think it's because humans are encroaching on their habitats lately and their ecosystem us being destroyed?

I refused to agree with you.

Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by pansophist(m): 3:22pm On Jul 12, 2025

Oh my God, that is a pereguine falcon, the world's fastest animal.

Its so fast, that it became the symbol of aerodynamics, and the single reason why the US military can invent aircrafts such as the B-2 stealth bomber. The Japanese fastest train (shinkansen) also got lectures from this majestic bird.

But I am surprised. Is the bird captured in Nigeria?

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Re: What Type Of Bird Is This? by meobizy(m): 12:24am On Jul 13, 2025

Why was my latest diary entry hidden? The truth hurts, abi?

Seun:
Please release it asap. Feed it with meat and give it water. If it wants to stay, it will stay. Your pictures are so gorgeous. Which phone is that?

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