The battle went on for about ten minutes: a crow took on a Bald Eagle.
But the eagle didn’t try to tackle the crow, it just kept flying away.
Eagles generally like to raid the nests of others for food (now is the time for this) and crows do not like to lose their chicks, so crows actually tackle eagles and drive them off. The odd thing is that the eagle, a bigger more powerful bird, just flies away and avoids the fight.
Now, it has been said that the eagle cannot be bothered to fight back, for it might be injured. But, the eagle will fight back with a bird that is closer to its own size, such as a osprey. Why then does it not want to tackle a much smaller crow? It is likely that, being smaller, the crow is much more manoeuvrable than the eagle, and so the risk to the eagle is correspondingly greater.
A crow drives off a juvenile Bald Eagle.