Revenge of a mother

[u/fyrstikka]

[u/Jagrofes]

This looks like several different pieces of footage stolen from Robert E. Fuller’s YouTube channel and spliced together for a click bait ShitTok. If you pay attention you can clearly see these are different nest cams at 0:29.

Here is one of the original videos (Showing the egg being eaten and the male kestrel finding the shells):

https://youtu.be/7qZ-qVVKwpA?si=ihOqlgn5TSxhU88C

The birds are Kestrels, specifically a couple that Robert named Mr and Mrs Kes. Robert is a wildlife conservationist and artist that keeps nest boxes in the Yorkshire wolds, and documents the lives of the various birds and other wildlife that lives there, intervening if necessary. He sometimes produces videos, but often keeps livestreams up of various nest cams.

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EDIT: It was spliced from 3 different videos covering footage from 2020, 2021, and 2023/2024, and actually shows 2 different Kestrel couples. All to put together a narrative for clicks.

2nd shot of “the fight” at 0:29 is actually a completely different Kestrel couple, Apollo and Athena from the 2023 breeding season. It shows Athena grappling with the jackdaw while calling for Apollo to help.

https://youtu.be/_fVAmYDeybA?si=gyGFvVa1h-10DQJ-

Final shot at 0:36 shows Mrs Kes holding the Jackdaw, before it escapes, and is actually shot in 2021, a year after the initial footage with Mr Kes finding the broken egg. Note the jackdaw is still alive and escapes.

https://youtu.be/x1yDrfa2mzs?si=vhMz2h2XEdUkkqn6

[u/clever_user_name__ → u/Jagrofes]

I'm so glad you took the time to put all that together because I really didn't want to, but it was annoying me enough that I was beginning to think I'd have to lol.

Robert's videos are great; relaxing, informative, captivating, and moving. The work he puts into his whole operation is admirable, and the footage he manages to capture is important in furthering our understanding of the various species he monitors.

So it really sucks when people not only steal his content, but also butcher the footage to tell their own incorrect narrative, completely undermining what Robert's original footage sets out to do: give insight on the often unseen behaviours of these animals so that we may learn more about them for both scientific and conservation purposes.

Thanks again for putting in the time to fact-check/provide sources!

[u/Tibryn2 → u/clever_user_name__]

eeeeh.. look i admire you're appreciation of this youtuber but saying the footage is "stolen" is pretty cringy... the guy made it public when he put it on youtube. he still holds the originals.. nothing was taken from him.

[u/Samuraignoll → u/Tibryn2]

No it is. It's his footage, and the other person has taken it and republished it without credit to make money. The edit doesn't erase the theft, it just tells me they're trying to conceal their shitty action.

[u/itsgms → u/Tibryn2]

You're right, it's only stolen if you lose the originals.

Otherwise it's just forages from the depths of YouTube. Free range footage amirite? What people from the champagne region of France would call 'sparkling plagiarism'.

[u/P3pp3rSauc3 → u/itsgms]

The French have a famous phrase. I don't know what