The Birds That Start Wildfires on Purpose 🔥🦅firehawks #firehawk #wildlife #birds

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]In Australia, some birds have learned to start wildfires on purpose.

[00:00:07]They're called firehawks, black kites, whistling kites, and brown falcons.

[00:00:14]When a bushfire breaks out, they gather at the edge of the flames.

[00:00:18]Most birds flee fire.

[00:00:21]These ones hunt it.

[00:00:24]They wait for the fire to flush out rodents, lizards, and insects.

[00:00:29]But some of them don't just wait.

[00:00:32]They spread it.

[00:00:34]They snatch a smoldering stick from the blaze and carry it in their talons, then drop it in dry grass, starting a fresh fire to drive out even more prey.

[00:00:47]Aboriginal Australians have known this for generations.

[00:00:51]Science only confirmed it in 2017.