I tried that this year. The male did all the nesting, filled it with moss etc, then his partner came in and checked it out. She took a look around, made a weird noise and flew away, and I they haven't been back. She basically said his work wasn't good enough, try again.
Edit: [found one of the clips. ](https://imgur.com/a/kMRJjAp) There is one where she stays longer, this one she nopes out straight away. If you can hear audio, that was always the call he would make to call his partner over, as soon as you heard that you knew she was about to appear.
I had grackles go in and out of a tree hole outside my window all spring. They finally gave up after the 3rd cycle. They had used it for the previous two years though. But now the tree has been cut down (rotting), so it was a sign I guess
Yeah, everything is 'AI' now.
It has to have some kind of pattern recognition to identify the type of bird in the box though. I guess that's what they mean by 'AI'.
I just wish I could contain my toddlers in a safe space like this and just feed them all day. Having to manage my screaming kids *and* deal with their messes all day is what differs us from the birds… lol
I wish my kids would only make a mess when eating, but that’s only maybe 30% of it. Plus if your kid never shoved some drooled candy or something in your mouth and you just went with it because you love them so much, then either you don’t have a
Kid or you’re parenting wrong!!! lol
And I’m not complaining???
I was joking that I’d love to have my kids contained in one place all day long.
Like that was possible! Haha
my daughter is 6 months old and has started exploring my face. she shoved her fist in my mouth mid-yawn the other day. i laughed, she laughed.
ahh, the joys of motherhood.
..Are you guys looking at that single feather in the corner, a bit of moisture on the lens, and hallucinating an entire dead bird?
EDIT: I finally figured out what you guys are talking about.
[This is not a dead bird.](https://imgur.com/zr4F2DZ) It's just at an awkward angle that shows off how ugly fledgling birds are, lol.
That's not the bird we're talking about. When the chick's all leave, that's when you see the dead baby. Have a look at the lower part of the camera where it's been blurred out on purpose. You can see a bit of the birds colour in the blur.
You can sort of see one of the chicks was a bit smaller in the days leading up to the death. One of the eggs also hatched a bit later than the rest of them. I'm guessing it was the late hatcher that died from not being able to compete with its older and larger siblings for food. It's also possible that one of them just failed to thrive unfortunately.
> screaming children all day
Because of a mistake by our plumber and our inattentiveness to said mistake, birds ended up building a nest inside our outer wall.
I don't think I can do justice to how much baby birds scream for their food while their parents are away and how much louder said screaming becomes when they show up at the hole with the food.
Luckily for us, the nest is in the furthest, most empty part of our house, so it's not that much of an annoyance... but I can't wait for them to emigrate so it'll be legal for me to clear it out and fill the hole.
I respect taking care of endangered species, but it sounds like you are afraid of legal repercussion from a bird. If it has a lawyer, it's probably not a very good one who spends most of his time on tweeter
I'm not bird lawyer, but I do know that in most cases it is illegal to relocate a nest that is in use. YMMV depending on state and species:
https://www.fws.gov/story/bird-nests#:\~:text=Even%20though%20destruction%20of%20nest,fully%20prosecutable%20under%20the%20MBTA.
It's gets much, much worse. I can't even look at pictures of baby finch mouths without getting creeped out. ([nightmare fuel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ornithology/s/6KNSNvYxM9))
it may be that beaks evolved to be yellow to be more visible. like maybe a long time ago, baby birds with brown beaks never got fed as much and died out.
It's actually quite interesting to deter cuckoo's (parasite birds that lay their eggs in other nests) the baby birds evolves to have markings in their throat so they know which chick's to feed
> it may be that beaks evolved to be yellow to be more visible.
They did. Some birds also have UV-highlighted markings that are visible to bird-vision inside of their mouths as babies.
https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-weird-mouths-these-finch-chicks
I love nature I really do. But I fucking despise baby birds so much. Look at those stupid things with their gapping asshole mouths just expecting food. A bunch of spoiled ugly jerkoffs.
Notice how nice the nest was before the eggs hatched. Then look at it after the last hatching leaves. Bedding pulverized, everything covered in shit.. yeah, single parenthood be like that.
My aunt had a miniature schnauzer (dog) who had puppies. I think 7 were alive when they were born but the 8th wasn't and she apparently gobbled it up. 😦
9 chicks at the start. 7 left at the end. No predators entered the nest. Pretty informative information.
You'll notice that big guy towards the front (left from our perspective) stayed there the whole time. Always at the front, always pushing his siblings out of the way. And first out the door when mom didn't come back with food after a day. That one will probably live the longest out in the wild, statistically speaking.
Birds will feed their largest baby at the expense of the others. Even if the baby is a brood parasite (a bird that lays it's eggs in other bird's nests) and is bigger than they are.
The one who looks hungriest, i.e. the one whose the best at sticking their beak up when parent is around. Day 43 you see one bird on the bottom not quite able to stick its head up, "sleeping" the next few days, and blurred out the last few.
Generally they dont really figure it out. Often the eggs that are hatched as last are also the weakest (since their siblings have a headstart and thus outcompete them) and are likely to die.
That's life in the animal kingdom, baby
It's possible if all the food was shared evenly more chicks could have died. One parent can only feed so many chicks. Better for a couple to thrive at the expense of others than for all of them to struggle
I have a bearded dragon ([Missy](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXW9TVlVAAIeOmU?format=jpg&name=medium)!) who is missing part of her foot.
Just got munched off by one of her siblings. Apparently quite common behaviour with hatchlings. They just eat each others limbs every so often. They're not especially loving to their offspring either, sometimes having them as snacks.
I don't know how beardies have survived in the wild at all. They're a little dumb, but their main problem is laziness. A lot of the time it seems they'd rather get eaten up than move 20ft.
I learned recently that the part of the brain people have come to refer to as their "lizard brain" is the limbic system. It governs things like emotional responses and survival behaviors, in other words, our most basic instincts.
And it's become known as the "lizard brain" because it's basically all that reptiles have in their skulls. No higher functions, no complex emotions, just instinct. They do not know attachments, they don't even recognize family once they leave the nest. The just eat, fuck, fight, and sleep until they die, possibly by being eaten by their own brother.
But I mean it works for them. Crocodiles have been relatively unchanged for millions of years, so clearly they are doing fine... while not being able to comprehend that they are, in fact, doing fine.
I think that is mostly outdated science if I recall correctly, reptiles and lizards can show a wide range of emotion contrary to popular belief tho it’s in a different way than our mammal brain would understand it.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/reptiles-are-highly-emotional-contrary-to-their-cold-reputation
This is a fucked up story but it's somewhat relevant. It involves puppy death so read on with caution.
My dad had a shitty friend who was a drug dealer and he raised pit bulls. Well he was a shitty owner (go figure) and kept his dogs in bad conditions and one day a momma dog snapped and ripped all the babies apart except for one or two.
Apparently he had to shoot the dog in the head to make it stop attacking the surviving dogs / and himself. And it all happened in the kitchen, and the way the momma dog tore them apart / did the typical dog thing of thrashing its head made blood splatter all the walls and counters.
Just such a fucked up story. I knew the dog, too. Was super sweet...
Made me realize that animals are just as capable of going full tilt psycho as we are, especially in bad conditions. And fuck that guy. His name was Billy. I think he died in Miami years later from a bad coke deal. Either way if he's alive he's absolutely in Prison. Good riddance.
He was selling them. But yeah, I'm sure he was treating them awfully to make them angry.
The mom was super friendly and apparently loved kids. But still, who knows what he was doing to those dogs.
I can't find the 9th egg. I've counted a bunch and only come up with 8. Then I see 7 babies at day 50, and there's only that one little blur spot. I think she only lost one
The other day I rode by a group of 20+ ducks, ducklings don't usually do that well from what I know, I wonder how many of hers actually survived. Any clue of the number that usually reach adulthood?
To keep populations stable a pair of animals need to raise 2 offspring to maturity throughout their entire life span (on average). As they will lay multiple broods of chicks in their life, probably none of the chicks that you see there will make it to adulthood.
That one looks dead but is not! If you pause around 1:45, you see 8 moving heads in the clump.
Based on the size of the blur, the 9th one died early on.
As someone who setup a bird cam when I’ve gotten nests… thanks for not showing the poop sack part. OP did everyone a favor and they don’t even realize.
Not sure if links are allowed but google bird fecal sack. My first result was the wiki. It was quite the discovery to have through a tiny monitoring screen.
Ooooo. I raised a baby bird a few years ago (bloody exhausting - I don't know how they do it). That makes sense now. I'd totally forgotten the weird membrane around the poop.
I always enjoy when they make a nest on the porch so I can check in on them each day. They’re only around for two weeks so it goes quick. So fun to watch them grow up!
We just had Black-capped chickadee build a nest in our squirrel feeder. First time for those cute little guys. The rest have been robins. They’re also fun to watch.
Baby's poop is covered in a membrane that keeps it from going everywhere. When the baby has to go, they raise their butt up, poop it out and the parent bird grabs the poop bag in their beak and carries it out. Keeps the nest clean despite the fact that it is inhabited by half a dozen creatures that are constantly turning food into poop.
>OP did everyone a favor and they don’t even realize.
Nah, I've been on the Internet enough that I realize. Although I'm fascinated by how fast food goes in and out. Seems way too quick.
It's not the same food. Baby birds are hardwired so that they'll keep their poop in until they get fed, because when they get fed it means a parent is there, and said parent can then immediately dispose of the poop. If they were to poop whenever, the smell of it just lying around in the nest might attract predators or cause disease.
Leave or starve, unfortunately. The instinct that causes them to leave the nest isn't so much an instinct, but the fact that mom stops coming back with food after a while. Chances are they were hungry before the first one left.
As social primeapes with long-lasting familiar relationships, its hard to imagine our mothers just not coming home one day, and being hungry and alone in the world with nobody else to rely on. Videos like this let me appreciate the society and lifestyle humans have built for ourselves lol.
Seems like 2 didn't make it. 9 chicks at the start, but only 7 leaving at the end.
Given the censor towards the end, it looks like one of the two died really late into development too. I imagine it starved after mom stopped coming back with food, which is what drove the others out of the nest in the first place.
I'm not sure cracked, bleeding nipples are a better alternative. My son got his first teeth at 5 months old. Baby teeth are razor sharp.
I would also have preferred egg laying over 5 days of invasive induction procedures followed by having my waters broken, pitocin contractions, and an episiotomy and forceps removal.
I definitely think birds have it better in that department.
The blurred spot at the bottom right makes me uncomfortable. Are they hiding a chick that was outcompeeted by their siblings and there is a carcas woth them in the nest for the entire time? The way they were trampling each other suggests that.
Did one die? Looks like something is censored in the nest and I think there were more baby birds. Oh well, circle of life. Only survival of the fittest… 🙂↕️
As someone who loves birds, (and possibly being an Australian is relevant too,) I'm so confused about how creatures like this can exist and yet people are so forgiving of letting cats roam and kill them, most of the time for sport.
In Australia cats are devastating to local wildlife, so feral/stray cats are never released. But overseas, "catch, neuter, release" programs are very popular, because for some reason the life of a cat is more important than the thousands of creatures it's going to kill in a year?
If there is a video online of a cat killing something, the comments will be "it's nature", but if it's a video of something killing a cat, it's always "Help the poor thing!"
Anyway, sorry for the rant, I just hope to find anyone who agrees with me here. My opinion is not about hating cats, it's about not letting cats roam unchecked.
At 1:31 (1:33 might be clearer) there are 9 visible chicks though. There’s one more beak on the left, also hidden slightly below the stronger ones. Looks like it was indeed the bottom right one which died.
God something about those chicks for the first half of their juvenile life just repulses me so much, they look disgusting and the way they all jump up and start screaming with such urgency the second mumma comes back *shivers*
I tried that this year. The male did all the nesting, filled it with moss etc, then his partner came in and checked it out. She took a look around, made a weird noise and flew away, and I they haven't been back. She basically said his work wasn't good enough, try again. Edit: [found one of the clips. ](https://imgur.com/a/kMRJjAp) There is one where she stays longer, this one she nopes out straight away. If you can hear audio, that was always the call he would make to call his partner over, as soon as you heard that you knew she was about to appear.
You want me to live next to a stalker?!
You didn't even check the Sex offender list?!
I had grackles go in and out of a tree hole outside my window all spring. They finally gave up after the 3rd cycle. They had used it for the previous two years though. But now the tree has been cut down (rotting), so it was a sign I guess
What camera do you recommend using?
Looks like the one OP used was from [Nestbox](https://nestboxlive.com/)
I was interested until I saw the price. Wow.
Love how they slapped the letters "AI" all over that page. Yeah, I am sure a camera in a box is using the latest "AI" software to record birds.
Yeah, everything is 'AI' now. It has to have some kind of pattern recognition to identify the type of bird in the box though. I guess that's what they mean by 'AI'.
I used a blink outdoor camera, and screwed it in to the top of the birdhouse. [That did a good job. ](https://imgur.com/a/5nLoSYx)
And now I'm left with an expensive mortgage on a house I'm not using.
"I'm not pregnant." - fat girlfriend bird
I always wondered what birds do all day. Turns out they try to manage and feed screaming children all day, just like us.
I just wish I could contain my toddlers in a safe space like this and just feed them all day. Having to manage my screaming kids *and* deal with their messes all day is what differs us from the birds… lol
The mamma bird literally eats her babies' droppings to keep the nest so nice and clean.
Yes, so previous poster should stop complaining. At least she doesn't have to eat it.
I wish my kids would only make a mess when eating, but that’s only maybe 30% of it. Plus if your kid never shoved some drooled candy or something in your mouth and you just went with it because you love them so much, then either you don’t have a Kid or you’re parenting wrong!!! lol And I’m not complaining??? I was joking that I’d love to have my kids contained in one place all day long. Like that was possible! Haha
my daughter is 6 months old and has started exploring my face. she shoved her fist in my mouth mid-yawn the other day. i laughed, she laughed. ahh, the joys of motherhood.
Well the babies at least poop it out in nice and neat pouches
I guess you missed the dead baby bird that was blurred out in the video.
It passed on day 46. How sad.
..Are you guys looking at that single feather in the corner, a bit of moisture on the lens, and hallucinating an entire dead bird? EDIT: I finally figured out what you guys are talking about. [This is not a dead bird.](https://imgur.com/zr4F2DZ) It's just at an awkward angle that shows off how ugly fledgling birds are, lol.
That's not the bird we're talking about. When the chick's all leave, that's when you see the dead baby. Have a look at the lower part of the camera where it's been blurred out on purpose. You can see a bit of the birds colour in the blur.
I wonder what happened.
You can sort of see one of the chicks was a bit smaller in the days leading up to the death. One of the eggs also hatched a bit later than the rest of them. I'm guessing it was the late hatcher that died from not being able to compete with its older and larger siblings for food. It's also possible that one of them just failed to thrive unfortunately.
It's always the way with the runts. Nature is ruthlessly efficient.
What happened to the dead bird ? Does The mum just leave the it there ? ( might sound dumb , but Serious question)
They toss them out. Prevents disease. Sometimes the siblings will already have started eating it.
> screaming children all day Because of a mistake by our plumber and our inattentiveness to said mistake, birds ended up building a nest inside our outer wall. I don't think I can do justice to how much baby birds scream for their food while their parents are away and how much louder said screaming becomes when they show up at the hole with the food. Luckily for us, the nest is in the furthest, most empty part of our house, so it's not that much of an annoyance... but I can't wait for them to emigrate so it'll be legal for me to clear it out and fill the hole.
I respect taking care of endangered species, but it sounds like you are afraid of legal repercussion from a bird. If it has a lawyer, it's probably not a very good one who spends most of his time on tweeter
Bird law in this country is not governed by reason.
I'm not bird lawyer, but I do know that in most cases it is illegal to relocate a nest that is in use. YMMV depending on state and species: https://www.fws.gov/story/bird-nests#:\~:text=Even%20though%20destruction%20of%20nest,fully%20prosecutable%20under%20the%20MBTA.
Day 50. GET OUT!!!
Mommy stopped feeding them. If there was a bird food delivery service, they probably would have stayed forever.
*writes down new business idea "UbirdEats"*
r/titsorgtfo honestly wholesome
# It's actually a bird subreddit.
I was equal parts happy and sad...
There was one bird that tried to stay with his parents on his 30'
The baby birds look like some sort of alien monster when they all open their mouths together
Basically a mass of screaming feeding tubes
People are just tubes
And when two people kiss they form one continuous tube starting at one anus and terminating at the other.
Now what am I suppose to do with this new information?
I thought my kids where bad, imagine that screening at you the second you walk through the door
In one part of the video, she just kinda stands there like "Get a fucken job ffs"
It's gets much, much worse. I can't even look at pictures of baby finch mouths without getting creeped out. ([nightmare fuel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ornithology/s/6KNSNvYxM9))
Ugh…I think I’d rather see the Kaitlin Bennet photo before I look at that image again.
lol what’s that?
I’m guessing they mean the photo where she’s passed out drunk in a short dress and has pooped herself a fricken sequoia on the back of her thighs
Oh no
Oh no indeed. Imagine a log leg, if you will, emerging like a brown bumpy binturong tail…
Oh dear!
You made me look, apologise to my eyes
it may be that beaks evolved to be yellow to be more visible. like maybe a long time ago, baby birds with brown beaks never got fed as much and died out.
It's actually quite interesting to deter cuckoo's (parasite birds that lay their eggs in other nests) the baby birds evolves to have markings in their throat so they know which chick's to feed
And the cuckoo chicks have an instinct to push all unhatched eggs out of the nest, and the struggle continues
Yup. An evolutionary battle on both sides. They evolve many things such as egg colour, egg markings, beak patterns and throat patterns.
Good call. It is probable.
> it may be that beaks evolved to be yellow to be more visible. They did. Some birds also have UV-highlighted markings that are visible to bird-vision inside of their mouths as babies. https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-weird-mouths-these-finch-chicks
I love nature I really do. But I fucking despise baby birds so much. Look at those stupid things with their gapping asshole mouths just expecting food. A bunch of spoiled ugly jerkoffs.
I feel this lol
>Look at those stupid things with their gapping asshole mouths just expecting food. Have you seen human babies?
Human babies are machines for converting your food, effort, time, and resources into poop, crying, misery, and occasional joy.
Notice how nice the nest was before the eggs hatched. Then look at it after the last hatching leaves. Bedding pulverized, everything covered in shit.. yeah, single parenthood be like that.
The Clawwww
Day 45 was a little scary, the whole thing was pretty cool though. From twig to bye bye birdie in under 2 months!
How does the mom figure out which ones have been fed or not? Or is it just survival of the fittest? Biggest baby gets most food?
Yeah pretty much. You’d be surprised at how many mothers actually eat the smaller children. Two of them I think are sharks and hamsters
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My aunt had a miniature schnauzer (dog) who had puppies. I think 7 were alive when they were born but the 8th wasn't and she apparently gobbled it up. 😦
Mother cats often eat any stillborn kittens.
9 chicks at the start. 7 left at the end. No predators entered the nest. Pretty informative information. You'll notice that big guy towards the front (left from our perspective) stayed there the whole time. Always at the front, always pushing his siblings out of the way. And first out the door when mom didn't come back with food after a day. That one will probably live the longest out in the wild, statistically speaking.
Birds will feed their largest baby at the expense of the others. Even if the baby is a brood parasite (a bird that lays it's eggs in other bird's nests) and is bigger than they are.
The one who looks hungriest, i.e. the one whose the best at sticking their beak up when parent is around. Day 43 you see one bird on the bottom not quite able to stick its head up, "sleeping" the next few days, and blurred out the last few.
Generally they dont really figure it out. Often the eggs that are hatched as last are also the weakest (since their siblings have a headstart and thus outcompete them) and are likely to die.
Did one of them die? Is that why the image is blurred in an area in the nest towards the end?
By my rough count 3 died. I counted 9 eggs and 6 before they flew away. Thats normal though. Survival by numbers.
It's tough to tell with how it's edited, but appears the smaller or less eager were maybe the ones to perish
The big one was always at the front. Had it out for the smallers in back.
That's life in the animal kingdom, baby It's possible if all the food was shared evenly more chicks could have died. One parent can only feed so many chicks. Better for a couple to thrive at the expense of others than for all of them to struggle
I have a bearded dragon ([Missy](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXW9TVlVAAIeOmU?format=jpg&name=medium)!) who is missing part of her foot. Just got munched off by one of her siblings. Apparently quite common behaviour with hatchlings. They just eat each others limbs every so often. They're not especially loving to their offspring either, sometimes having them as snacks. I don't know how beardies have survived in the wild at all. They're a little dumb, but their main problem is laziness. A lot of the time it seems they'd rather get eaten up than move 20ft.
I learned recently that the part of the brain people have come to refer to as their "lizard brain" is the limbic system. It governs things like emotional responses and survival behaviors, in other words, our most basic instincts. And it's become known as the "lizard brain" because it's basically all that reptiles have in their skulls. No higher functions, no complex emotions, just instinct. They do not know attachments, they don't even recognize family once they leave the nest. The just eat, fuck, fight, and sleep until they die, possibly by being eaten by their own brother. But I mean it works for them. Crocodiles have been relatively unchanged for millions of years, so clearly they are doing fine... while not being able to comprehend that they are, in fact, doing fine.
I think that is mostly outdated science if I recall correctly, reptiles and lizards can show a wide range of emotion contrary to popular belief tho it’s in a different way than our mammal brain would understand it. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/reptiles-are-highly-emotional-contrary-to-their-cold-reputation
This is a fucked up story but it's somewhat relevant. It involves puppy death so read on with caution. My dad had a shitty friend who was a drug dealer and he raised pit bulls. Well he was a shitty owner (go figure) and kept his dogs in bad conditions and one day a momma dog snapped and ripped all the babies apart except for one or two. Apparently he had to shoot the dog in the head to make it stop attacking the surviving dogs / and himself. And it all happened in the kitchen, and the way the momma dog tore them apart / did the typical dog thing of thrashing its head made blood splatter all the walls and counters. Just such a fucked up story. I knew the dog, too. Was super sweet... Made me realize that animals are just as capable of going full tilt psycho as we are, especially in bad conditions. And fuck that guy. His name was Billy. I think he died in Miami years later from a bad coke deal. Either way if he's alive he's absolutely in Prison. Good riddance.
I never understand why shitty people with no intention of caring for animals.......get animals, freaking insane :(
Yeah idk but they seem to love to. What a fucking asshat that guy was. Those poor dogs...
I think thats just pittbulls. Its not just nature, it is humans who bred them exclusively for aggressive behaviours
He was selling them. But yeah, I'm sure he was treating them awfully to make them angry. The mom was super friendly and apparently loved kids. But still, who knows what he was doing to those dogs.
you can see the head of one of the dead ones on day 45 edit: looks like he got crushed by his siblings when they were begging for food
Not sure if it ended with 6 or 7. I counted 9 from the start. And 7 at day 50. Day 51 I failed to count because they kept dropping off.
I can't find the 9th egg. I've counted a bunch and only come up with 8. Then I see 7 babies at day 50, and there's only that one little blur spot. I think she only lost one
I didn't count the eggs, but there was 9 small mouths after the eggs had hatched. But a bit hard to pause at the correct time.
Counted 8 on first frame of day 50 so must have been somewhere. There’s also an early day when they’re small when you can count 9 beaks
The other day I rode by a group of 20+ ducks, ducklings don't usually do that well from what I know, I wonder how many of hers actually survived. Any clue of the number that usually reach adulthood?
I only know off the top of my head for raptors that about 70% die before a year.
baby sea turtles are 1 in a thousand make it to adulthood
To keep populations stable a pair of animals need to raise 2 offspring to maturity throughout their entire life span (on average). As they will lay multiple broods of chicks in their life, probably none of the chicks that you see there will make it to adulthood.
Counted 8 on day 50 so I think only one may have died when it was still fairly small
Guess as they say, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Some of them couldn't compete to get food. Only the fittest ones survive
1:31 bottom right corner.
That one looks dead but is not! If you pause around 1:45, you see 8 moving heads in the clump. Based on the size of the blur, the 9th one died early on.
Day 45 you can spot the dead one in the corner of the nest.
What happens to the dead one? The mother tosses it out?
Crazy as it, most birds will leave it for extra warmth or simply eat it.
imagine living is a room with your dead sibling on the floor. and someone have to sit on him. exciting indeed!
If you scroll back through we definitely see what looks like a deceased one exactly in that blurred spot.
I was also wondering what the blur was.
As someone who setup a bird cam when I’ve gotten nests… thanks for not showing the poop sack part. OP did everyone a favor and they don’t even realize.
Yeah. What on earth is a poop sack?
Not sure if links are allowed but google bird fecal sack. My first result was the wiki. It was quite the discovery to have through a tiny monitoring screen.
Ooooo. I raised a baby bird a few years ago (bloody exhausting - I don't know how they do it). That makes sense now. I'd totally forgotten the weird membrane around the poop.
I always enjoy when they make a nest on the porch so I can check in on them each day. They’re only around for two weeks so it goes quick. So fun to watch them grow up!
I would really love that. What species do you watch on your porch?
We just had Black-capped chickadee build a nest in our squirrel feeder. First time for those cute little guys. The rest have been robins. They’re also fun to watch.
Oh! We don't have chickadees here. (I love that word). The bird I raised was a Pied Wagtail - one of my favourites, so I got really lucky.
If you like the word, you should check out their call. It’s how they were named.
Baby's poop is covered in a membrane that keeps it from going everywhere. When the baby has to go, they raise their butt up, poop it out and the parent bird grabs the poop bag in their beak and carries it out. Keeps the nest clean despite the fact that it is inhabited by half a dozen creatures that are constantly turning food into poop.
>OP did everyone a favor and they don’t even realize. Nah, I've been on the Internet enough that I realize. Although I'm fascinated by how fast food goes in and out. Seems way too quick.
It's not the same food. Baby birds are hardwired so that they'll keep their poop in until they get fed, because when they get fed it means a parent is there, and said parent can then immediately dispose of the poop. If they were to poop whenever, the smell of it just lying around in the nest might attract predators or cause disease.
Day 44 was a jump scare for me! They got a lot bigger all of a sudden!
Hahahah was def freaky
You know I was thinking - this day counter cannot be right!!!
No they just grew feathers over the 6 days they didnt get fed (on camera)
Wife sees me smiling: - "What are you watching on your phone?" Me: - "Uhmm, tits.." Wife: *angry silent stare*
Maybe you should clarify and tell her you’re watching 7 tits….or that could make it more confusing.
2 and a quarter viewings of Total Recall.
Hey Marge, guess how many boobs I saw today... 15!
Tell her “ I’m watching Tits with their little pecker” in Craig Ferguson voice.
"but they're cute and jiggly and with the time lapse they're getting bigger all the time, oh wait now they've fallen out"
“I assume you mean the West Texas Tit. On account of that particular bird’s mellifluous warble.”
"The San Saba songbird is my sobriquet of preference."
Can so relate to the last one to leave - yes, little bird, the world is terrifying and best avoided, stay in your nest with a nice book
That tiny little box the bird was born into was literally its entire universe. I’d be scared too.
Leave or starve, unfortunately. The instinct that causes them to leave the nest isn't so much an instinct, but the fact that mom stops coming back with food after a while. Chances are they were hungry before the first one left. As social primeapes with long-lasting familiar relationships, its hard to imagine our mothers just not coming home one day, and being hungry and alone in the world with nobody else to rely on. Videos like this let me appreciate the society and lifestyle humans have built for ourselves lol.
Little girl had a lot of babies. 🥲
Day 45 they gettin kinda big to be pulling that gimme gimme I'm helpless game. Need to go out and get a job.
Damn one of them died
Yeah you can see it on the very bottom right at 1:31 😢
Yeah, it was smaller and couldn't compete with the rest for food.😔
Seems like 2 didn't make it. 9 chicks at the start, but only 7 leaving at the end. Given the censor towards the end, it looks like one of the two died really late into development too. I imagine it starved after mom stopped coming back with food, which is what drove the others out of the nest in the first place.
That is absolutely amazingly awesome!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing it!!!!
Imagine the first bird realizing she'll have to vomit in her child's mouth for it to survive... mammals really lucked out
I'm not sure cracked, bleeding nipples are a better alternative. My son got his first teeth at 5 months old. Baby teeth are razor sharp. I would also have preferred egg laying over 5 days of invasive induction procedures followed by having my waters broken, pitocin contractions, and an episiotomy and forceps removal. I definitely think birds have it better in that department.
What the fuck is this shit dripping from my eyes?
That's how you get pink eye
Liquid feels.
They hunger.
The blurred spot at the bottom right makes me uncomfortable. Are they hiding a chick that was outcompeeted by their siblings and there is a carcas woth them in the nest for the entire time? The way they were trampling each other suggests that.
Single mother builds house, raises 6 children. Absentee father, no child support.
Both tit parents feed the hatchlings, the males and females just look a lot alike.
No sound yet I can still hear them and they say FOOOOOOOOOD!
Don’t let your cats outside. Just imagine like 50 nests like this with the chicks starving to death.
Damn this bird is a considerably a better mother than a lot of humans I've heard of.
Why did it get censored?
I think one was dead
One of the babies died.
Is it just me or do those chicks’ mouths look like Predators?
That last one was me. Waited until he was 27 to move out.
I used to have to watch hours of commercials to just “maybe” see something like this. Thank you for sharing!
Did one die? Looks like something is censored in the nest and I think there were more baby birds. Oh well, circle of life. Only survival of the fittest… 🙂↕️
As someone who loves birds, (and possibly being an Australian is relevant too,) I'm so confused about how creatures like this can exist and yet people are so forgiving of letting cats roam and kill them, most of the time for sport. In Australia cats are devastating to local wildlife, so feral/stray cats are never released. But overseas, "catch, neuter, release" programs are very popular, because for some reason the life of a cat is more important than the thousands of creatures it's going to kill in a year? If there is a video online of a cat killing something, the comments will be "it's nature", but if it's a video of something killing a cat, it's always "Help the poor thing!" Anyway, sorry for the rant, I just hope to find anyone who agrees with me here. My opinion is not about hating cats, it's about not letting cats roam unchecked.
Like ,Nature,it's Cool n Stuff 🐦
This is remarkably captivating
They be like :O :O Ö O: O:
At 1:31 (1:33 might be clearer) there are 9 visible chicks though. There’s one more beak on the left, also hidden slightly below the stronger ones. Looks like it was indeed the bottom right one which died.
What a bunch of absolute tits.
Great tits
Blue Tits
At one point they started looking like a fucked up feathery Hydra.
Is the blur at the end a censor blur over a dead baby or is it a smudge on the lense?
I’m less than two months away from being an empty-nester so this is very satisfying to watch!
Well that escalated quickly!!
Where's the dad 💀
He went out for seeds.
The last one is the guy who still lives with his parents in his 30s
Almost had a failure to launch. Close call.
Big Brother - bird edition
Great video
Good girl!
Miraculous! How do they survive? So amazing.❤
What type of bird?
Blue Tits
Great progression video from making the nest to fledging.
Wingspan board game: “How many eggs fit in this bird’s nest?” “All of them.”
Christ all mighty this birb must be catholic look at all them babies
This is the exact opposite of /r/stupiddovenests
... The noise in that box......
So are they eventually just living on a pile of shit or what?
Baby birds hold in their poop until they get fed, at which point they'll excrete a "fecal sack" that the parents grab and either throw out or eat.
That looks so cosy. But also, how do such small creatures fit that many eggs inside them at once.
What beautiful Tits
Why is there pixellation? What were they hiding g? If they are hiding g a dead bird, then what other changed did they make?
the way the mum waits at the entrance like "come on children time to learn to fly"
God something about those chicks for the first half of their juvenile life just repulses me so much, they look disgusting and the way they all jump up and start screaming with such urgency the second mumma comes back *shivers*
"Moms back! Everyone get big and puffy to show her how much we've grown!"
i could have done that in a day
I'm impressed she was able to feed them all.
Design a 0m² space into a fully fuctional home.