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Nasty 'Killer' Hummingbirds In UltraSlo Motion

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

We think Humming birds are sweet but watch as one tries to kill the other. Look at the way the beak is used as a weapon to ram the throat of the bird on the feeder. That has to hurt.

These shots where captured at various frame rates and play back speeds are changed over time too. These where shot with a Phantom, Miro 4. Frame rates are from 200 FPS to 4000 FPS.

4 Comments

dystopianfuturetoday

Float like a hummingbird, sting like a... hummingbird?

The males are just dicks. We have to have two different feeders on opposite sides of our house just so the females can feed in relative safety.

I never thought of JOUST! as a simulation...

They make this high-pitched squeal/screech when they attack, too. When I was in HS, living at my dad's house, I had a basketball hoop in the driveway. I was out playing one day and the ball rolled into the yard by the humming bird feeder. As I bent over to pick up the ball, I heard EEEEEEEE!, along with that harsh buzzing noise their wings make, shoot over my head.

As I stood up and looked around, I spotted the little guy hovering about 8' up. He made the screech again and darted back and forth. I got the ball and got the hell out of there. I'm sure he couldn't seriously injure me, short of taking an eye out, but who wants to be poked full of little holes?

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