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Early Access Video - What is a Hummingbird?
🕑 Added 2025-02-12 20:30:10 +0000 UTCHi Patrons, Jason here!
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Comments
Rachel Robinson
This was one of my favorite phylogeny videos yet! Birds are my favorite
Quinn
It's crazy how all of that came together. Typically in these videos I can see the similarities between the families, but none of these felt like they would lead to hummingbirds.
Eric Williamson
This video makes me happy. I love hummingbirds.
Clint's Reptiles
Jason here. I can't seem to recreate this issue on my devices. It may just be an issue on your device. Hopefully it clears up.
Clint's Reptiles
Jason here. Good catch! Re-exported and re-uploaded. Thanks!
Cynthia
Hummingbirds are my vote!
Sagitta
Perhaps this is just something odd with my PC, but for a lot of this video, especially when I mouse over it, I see horizontal lines across the bottom 40% of the picture.
Malarite
Barely started. I remember once when I was hunting, I was trying to be still while sitting on the ground. I was just enjoying nature, when something that sounded like a beetle the size of my fist flew right behind my head. It flapped there for a bit and then flew off. Later I saw it was a humming bird. Little thing freaked me out at first. Hahaha. Wild little dinos.
Kelly H
That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that!
Godtiergiraffe
Thank you yes! I noticed this as well. It will hopefully be a quick editing fix. Shout out to the production team for helping create such great content!
Kelly H
I work for Salt River Project, an electric company in AZ. One of our generation stations has huge chains hanging off a certain walkway. Every year, hummers make a nest in a single loop of chain. One little oblong piece of chain. We block off the walkway every year until the babies leave the nest. So many employees have to go way out of our way to take another route. We love it, and most years we have pics in the company newsletter.
Kelly H
Two biologists have told me that once you feed hummingbirds, don't stop. Because they're highly territorial, and if you take that huge food resource out of your birds' territory, they may not find more high value food before they starve if you take your feeders away. Which might only take 48 hours.
Kelly H
I love hummingbirds. Because they're hummingbirds, and also because my grandma loved them. She had about 20 feeders in her backyard. She also had personal hummingbirds energy, which drove me nuts. But she was always one of my favorite people.
Katie Meyer
Serendipity. Just today I watched a video about a man went from discovering a hummingbird nest in his yard in 2009, to capturing 14 years of footage on hummingbird behavior. "Pittman is a citizen scientist and hummingbird expert. But he didn't formally study ornithology, or even any biology... The BBC Natural History Unit has even turned to Pittman as a subject matter expert when they’ve needed to film elusive hummingbirds." More info in the video description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02Ss3xgABc , if you want to watch more hummingbird footage this week. As Clint says: "If you're into that kind of thing." Now, to watch this video... <3
Elyas Hersi
I think maybe do a bit less simsins
Mimiheart
Haven't finished, but at 7:35 Clint says "Flapping flight is very expensive..." on screen, and at 7:50 the same vocal clip is said over an image of flying birds. It's a short vocal clip, but since they're so close together, it sticks out. (Or at least it does to me.)
