Bird rides on a hawk like a freakin' boss

 By 
Annie Colbert
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Oh, you drove to work today? Amateur.

A shrewd red-winged blackbird hitched a ride on the back of a red-tailed hawk because wing flapping is super overrated. The badass nature moment was captured by Mike White at the Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska and shared by the U.S. Department of the Interior on Instagram.

A photo posted by U.S. Department of the Interior (@usinterior) on Aug 3, 2015 at 4:06pm PDT

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