The Birth of a Hummingbird

Posted by Queuebot in Animal on September 26, 2009 at 7:27 am


Incredible pictures of a hummingbird, from egg to leaving the nest. It is hard to imagine just how small they are from the pictures, so keep in mind the opening of the nest is about the size of a quarter!

Link – via nowthatsnifty

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17 comments to "The Birth of a Hummingbird"

  1. JJ
    September 26th, 2009 at 7:34 am

    Well, I hope this bird will live a long life.

  2. FishBottleT
    September 26th, 2009 at 7:36 am

    It is really amazing when you see the true scale of how small they are. Neat pics!

  3. Jill
    September 26th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Looks gross

  4. dutchboy
    September 26th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Hummingbirds are awesome.

  5. The Envoy
    September 26th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    I'd have to agree with Jill.

  6. cakehead loves evil
    September 26th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Nature is awesome

  7. seekshelter
    September 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    this has nothing to do with this post, but does anyone know how to update the user profile image with wordpress? their support pages only show info about maintining blogs and not us regular folk that just use it to post here.

  8. Alex
    September 26th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    @seekshelter - we use gravatar.com (which is a part of Automattic, the company of the WordPress guy, Matt Mullenweg) for the user images

  9. seekshelter
    September 26th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    thanks! i signed up so long ago that i forgot about that...

  10. McKenzie
    September 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

  11. halieus
    September 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    That's an alien!!

  12. rault
    September 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Humming at birth....
    Marvelous... :)

  13. Ant Dude
    September 26th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Rmeember how tiny we are? An ovum!

  14. Tony
    September 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Wow! That's so amazing! I am impressed that WebTV still exists.

    And the hummingbird pics are beautiful, too!

  15. wit of a twit
    September 27th, 2009 at 12:01 am

    You know how we Mammals find pretty much all mammals babies cute, even the ugliest. But we don't really think baby other-than-mammals cute (like these humming birds. Why is that? Do you think birds find their own offspring cute? They probably think mammal babies are gross.

  16. Chris Johnston
    September 27th, 2009 at 7:47 am

    What a coincidence! Just the other day, I had an urge to seek out slow-motion hummingbird videos on YouTube, and I stumbled across this little "nest documentary"...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG59PaCiiDg

  17. Ali S.
    September 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Baby Bird: Moooooooom!!!


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