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Birdie!! I love corvids 🥺

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@thebusylilbee

Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time

In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.

By Rachel Nuwer

Published Feb. 14, 2025Updated Feb. 17, 2025

Hummingbirds are tiny and delicate, but don’t be fooled: They are among the most aggressive birds in the avian kingdom. Their territorial fury is especially aimed at other hummingbirds. Competition over a patch of flowers or a mate often results in high-speed aerial chases, divebombing and beak jousting.

So when Gustavo Cañas-Valle, an ornithologist and birding guide, stumbled across a cave full of hummingbirds nesting and roosting together in Ecuador’s High Andes, he could hardly believe it.

“I thought, ‘This looks like a colony,’” Mr. Cañas-Valle said. He added, “They were like bees.”

He documented 23 adult birds and four chicks, all of the subspecies Oreotrochilus chimborazo chimborazo, commonly known as the Chimborazo hillstar.

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of hummingbirds that nested and roosted communally. It is also notable that he found the birds engaging in both these behaviors in the same space — something that even highly social species from other bird families tend not to do.

[lylahammar]

This dude just scared the shit outta me by swooping right over my head but boy is he beautiful

[chicicherrycola]

[ijustreallylikepirates]

bruh my laptop showed me a picture of this bird and I thought it was cute so I went to go search it up and learn more about it and I found this picture

SHE'S SO SICK OF HER CHILDREN LMAOOOOO

[butcherbirdcravings]

I want what they have

Rock Doves (Columba livia) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[dailybirdscuzbird]

i’m kinda biased but i think pigeons are really cool

like what do you mean rats of the sky??? is that not a good thing??

[thund3randrain]

[froggylo]

Rare footage of Jason and Dick on their date.

Reblog quietly so you don’t interrupt them

[emirkocturk]

Sessiz ve derin uykular diliyorum bazen. hiç karışmadan rengarenk rüyalara..

Cute baby duck..

[ghostofchristmaslost]

A birb. Just a tiny birb.

[dabiconcordia]

Moral: Whomever you're important to - will look for you

[yoghurt-bimbo]

via birdhism

[lylahammar]

I've been referencing pictures of shoebills a lot for my job recently and people online seem to think they're scary but I think they're adorable and dorky so here's a buncha cute and silly pics of them that I've found!!

[alteredstatesstuff]

forest birds

[laurinchen-fotos]

Huhu, what are you doing? :D