We found this little female hummingbird on the sidewalk in our neighbourhood in Vancouver, Canada. After nursing it with some sugar water, we brought it to an animal care centre where it is being cared for.
mostly because it kinda is, with a diet of nothing but sugar and the constant need to feed on said stuff makes having sugar rushes vital for well living.
this fluffy little ball with black eyes is the cutest thing i've seen . her peeb just melted my heart . I have no words .im gonna cry and die of this cuteness overload.
The bit at 0:19 where it seems like the bird is spitting water really confused me for a while, so I looked it up. Turns out hummingbirds have these really thin, transparent tongues. Really interesting!
smaller animals tend to have very fast heartbeat. Mouse, shrews etc including Humminbird, because of that, they need to consume a LOT of food compared to their body weight. (There's actually an evolution theory regarding why animals grow a certain size) Anyway, as cute as hummingbird is, a lot of humminbird died simply because they just can't sustain themselves enough with their nectar diet, especially with the urbanization
Even among the high metabolism small animal, hummingbird have it hard. As a species, it is highly evolved, but at the same time, very specialized. And to put it in a game like analogy. They pick the wrong choice in the evolutionary tree by specialising in nectar gathering. Compare this to similar animal with high metabolism, shrew. Specialized in eating insects, but when needed, still able to be carnivorous. This flexibility in diet is a better "choice" compared to hummingbird specialization. Sorry for the rant, just wanted to put it out there
I just used this video to reunite a baby humming bird with its mother! We had a humming bird nest that looked like it was about to fall from the deck in our backyard so we fastened a basket under the bird nest just incase the baby inside fell out. The next morning the nest and the baby humming bird in its first stage of life had fallen into the basket we secured below it just the night before. Unfortunately the mother humming bird didn’t seem to be able to find her baby in the basket just a foot below her original nest. The whole day we watched mama buzz right by baby in her nest and we were worried we would have to rush the baby to a wildlife sanctuary so someone could feed her by hand. It was heart wrenching to see the mama bird get so close to her baby over and over but still not see her. As a last resort I put a wireless speaker right next to the nest and played the chirping noises for maybe 10 minutes till the mama bird finally followed the sound and found her baby in the basket. I did, as a grown woman, she’d a tear of happiness. The mama bird is now able to take care of her baby again. All life is precious.
Those little guys fly fast. I would see them around the yard at my job sipping nectar out of azaleas and hydrangeas. The ones we had were barely the size of a quarter of a hotdog. It was a hard job, but I enjoyed watching them come by and sip the nectar from the flowers
Me: I hate existence. The world sucks and is going to hell really quickly. There's nothing worthwhile for me anymore. Hummingbird: ᵖᵉᵉᵖ Me: I will live until the ripe old age of 9000.
@daAnder71 Who says they "dinosaurs" were all reptiles? Some of them were, of course, but not necessarily all. Some also have a much more complex brainstructure than reptiles. And what about the toes. When you compare reptiles and mammals It should become obvious that the original version is five fingers / toes on each, and all that have less are stil based on that model to start with. So which of the five toes does a chicken have left? And a velociraptor? What about the pneumatized bones - a feature that present age birds only share with dinosaurs? Just because we were brought up to believe that ALL prehistoric vertebraes were reptiles, that doesn't have to be true.
Muraia The Sagely It closes it's eyes and starts snoring. JK. In fact it goes into a sort of state of hibernation and the bird's heart rate slows down to about 50 beats a minute. It's breath slows down so much that it might look like it is not breathing at all. Fascinating stuff. There is a cute video of one hummingbird snoring.
At my house, a couple hummingbirds built their nest in our lemon tree. We were so happy when we saw four eggs in the nest a few days later. The hummingbirds were very chill with us and even let us hold the babies when they were old enough! The mother bird would land on my mom's finger sometimes. Having a family of hummingbirds in our own backyard was definitely one of the best experiences in my life.
26markessk We used to have a family of Swallows that nested in the overhanging part of our front porch. Unfortunately a storm smashed up their nest and they never came back
That's pretty sad. I hope they ended up okay. Actually, very recently, a couple of doves made their home in the same lemon tree, but ended up abandoning the nest for some reason.
26markessk I had an eagles nest in my freaking sycamore. They're alright though. They used to search in my gutter for food and they would pluck the waste off of it.
@@cuteycatsarecute no it's not. birb is slang used by dumb millennials 'cause they're too stupid to spell. millennials have shit in their heads instead of brains. amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/birbs
