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Did you know that there are no hummingbirds in Europe? Imagine being one of those poor souls. This is a mythical creature to them

>>510111594 (OP)
I put up a hummingbird feeder inawoods and saw eight hummingbirds at once. I pity the europoor.

Love these guys

Op lies

>>510111594 (OP)
I find it hard to believe that nobody has brought a pair of hummingbirds over to bongland on a boat by this point.

>>510111594 (OP)
I did not know actually, everyone is missing out crazy

>>510111594 (OP)
I like the Portuguese name for it, Beija-Flor, meaning 'He kisses the flower'.

They are funny in the spring when you get near a nest. I run to make them feel better.

>>510111594 (OP)
Yesh

>>510113202
>Beija-Flor
that's brazillian pt tho, european pt it's called colibris

>>510113169
For the first time in my life I envy south america.

>>510111594 (OP)
>>510112722
>>510113387
Savage birds. Still cool af.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biagyb7AcK8

>>510111594 (OP)
there are hummingbirds in europe.
i have seen some in northern france with my own eyes about 15 years ago when visiting

>>510112922
They die quickly in captivity.

>>510113537
That was the moth

>>510111594 (OP)
This confuses and enrages the europoor

>>510111594 (OP)
these lil niggas are one of nature's marvels, truly fascinating

Hummingbirds scare the shit out of me sometimes when I don't see them coming, sounds like a huge buzzing bug is coming right at me.

>>510112881
my cat beat the shit out of one of those little flying niggers.

>>510113676
is there a moth that looks exactly like them?

>>510111594 (OP)
we have Hummingbird hawk-moth which is basically like a Kolibri

>>510113855
>>510112881

>>510113973
fair enough, it was probably one of them

I have a hummingbird feed and those niggers go through so much sugar water. They must all have diabetes.

>>510111594 (OP)
>Did you know that there are no hummingbirds in Europe?
that's a koliber
we have a replacement though
a butterfly called Macroglossum Stellatarum
behaves just like a hummingbird but is not a birb

>>510111594 (OP)
I have a humming bird feeder and see them daily. They sound like little helicopters.

>>510111594 (OP)
>During normal flight, they flap their wings around 50-80 times per second.
Holy shit! How is that even physically possible? Like a single second seems way to short to fit that many discrete events.

>>510113567
What about shipping eggs and incubating them along the way?

>>510111594 (OP)
colibris would starve in a low sugar envirement
so of course they are not to be found in europe

>>510115460
I mean insects do it all the time, just with smaller wings

>>510113903
>we have moths tho

>>510115552
They need to be raised by their parents to survive outside of captivity

>>510115722
Ok. I don’t have any real stake in getting hummingbirds over to bongland, but I’m pretty sure a veterinarian could put them to sleep with some sort of sedative and then wake them up at the end of their journey.

>>510115667
That's true. The size of the wing is probably not the most important factor but I'm guessing rather the muscles or whatever are. I still think that's incredibly fast.

>>510112881
>>510113903
Had no idea those things existed, pretty cool

>>510112881
thats a bug

>>510114140
They need high Glucose in their bloodstream at all times in order to fuel their flight muscles and their heart, which beats at 1,260 beats per minute while in flight.

>>510116646
Carbs are high octane fuel for high performers. Carbs for the win!

>>510113790
Same. The people who owned the house before me must’ve kept their feeders on the porch because they would hover around me every morning. I kept thinking that long pointy beak was gonna go right into my fucking eyeball.
They’re still cool as fuck, I just had to put my feeders out away from the porch but close enough that I can still watch em

>>510115460
I believe it because they buzz loud as fuck when they’re close to you. Shits insane

The hummingbirds in my neighborhood follow me around when I go on walks I love them so much

>>510111594 (OP)
so? there are no hedgehogs in the Americas, and they are active every evening under my window. fauna differs from place to place.

>>510118632
Hedgehogs are fucking lame in comparison

>>510116372
Was a joke dummy
>ignores filename

>amerinigger animals can't cut it in europe
i say based

>>510111594 (OP)
There's no fireflies either

>>510119480
this is bait.

>>510119480
The only time I’ve seen fireflies was in Italy

WTF would happen if we brought penguins to arctic (circle) and polar bears to Antarctic?

Would polar bears wipe out Antarctic penguins on land?
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/March-of-the-Penguins/0K61W83OPD8AQKAAPTFZVUVCRX

>>510111594 (OP)
I see plenty hummingbird moths though, they look the fucking same i always want to kick them, nasty things.

>>510112922
how a human can live 3 days without water, something along those lines, hummingbirds can go 5 hours without food or water

europes climate doesnt support flora year round they could eat on every 5 hours, thats my guess

>>510120534
to see them in large numbers is seasonal and i knew of a few places in florida they still appear in the tens of thousands every year, looks cooler in person when theyre that thick than any picture

>>510112575
I even get em in nu joisey

>>510111594 (OP)
I was staying in rural Washington state a few years ago. I was having a piss off the veranda in the morning an a hummingbird came an drank my piss. Was kino.

>>510111594 (OP)
I get Anna's and Rufous where I'm at

>>510115937
They're a really fragile niche bird. These niggers fly across the fucking gulf of mexico every year just to get up to the northeast

>>510111594 (OP)
These things are for sure some kind of alien drone

I had a hummingbird nest in my fig tree this spring. Saw the 2 babies. Saw them leave the nest. The mother flew into my garage early on I think she was looking for stuff to build her nest. They would feed on my desert Willow blossoms in the front yard.

>>510121123
It’s the Gulf of America now

First time I saw a hummingbird up-close irl I thought wow that's a really big weird insect I've never seen before. Them I realized what it was. It was pretty cool to observe up-close how it hovers.

>>510115460
Film yourself masturbating, simply breathtaking

>>510111594 (OP)
He's cute

test

>>510111594 (OP)
Best thread on /pol/. Hummingbirds are kino.

>>510112575
Sometimes I see them dog fighting around my yard at high speeds, presumably having territory disputes. Very silly to watch. Sounds like miniature world war 2 air battles lol

Hummingbirds are based. In Aztec culture, if you died in battle you were reborn as one. They’re also messengers between the spirit world and the living

>>510113903
they love buddleia. Each summer for the last couple years, when the buddleia flowers, those little fuckers come to my garden.

>>510111594 (OP)
We have Barnacle Geese which you dont have. Much prettier than Canada Geese which we have too.

>>510111594 (OP)
Love them. I have a bunch over here

still, not as crazy penguins not being penguins, but some completely different animal they merely called penguins
but thats just jewish clown world 101, like dinosaurs not being extinct, and flipping all the maps upside down so north is now south.

>>510111594 (OP)
Never heard of a zoo i take it?

>>510112881
Look at this guy, I'll take that over some vagina hat colored bird any time

>>510111594 (OP)
Yeah, but they got the Little Owl.

>>510133870
owlniggers get the rope.
same goes for euro robins. theyre twinks compared to real american robins

>tfw every year the same hummingbirds would build a nest in the same spot in the same tree at my old house
>used to observe them from inches away
>eventually the mother even let me pet her a few times
>the husband would stop by and get a bit mad but grew cooler over time
>got to watch up close the babies grow their feathers every year
>move to a new place 100 miles away
>the exact same thing happens
>a pair of hummingbirds nest outside my bed room window every year
>hear them call to one another which I had never heard before
>one bird arrives a few days early and does its high pitched note call until the other shows up while waiting for the other to return
>one year she doesnt come back
>the male calls and calls and calls but to no avail
>he leaves
>returns the next year and calls repeatedly
>no response
>never returns again

I love hummingbirds, they are beautiful creatures.

>>510113842
Truly the niggers of the animal world. Stupid, useless and violent. The only reason theyre still around is because of their toxoplasmosis riddled owners.

>>510129747
Nobody gives a fuck about geese, Sven.

>>510112881
What the fuck is this goofy little bastard?

>>510111594 (OP)
Yeah well... fuck you

>>510111594 (OP)
we have humming birds , they are smaller , but we have some , i saw one , they are pretty rare , but we have them , they re called colibris

>>510111594 (OP)
I had one that would sit in a tree by my balcony and chase all the other hummingbirds away from the feeder. I called him Dick Bird.

>>510136352
Wikipedia page please

>>510135825
Oh don't get pissed off. There's several animals Europe has that we don't.

>>510136695
Nothing nearly as cool. I challenge you to name something Europe has that we don’t that is as cool as a hummingbird

>>510111594 (OP)
I don’t know what I’d do without the joy hummingbirds bring into my life. They are incredibly intelligent. How so smart with such a tiny brain? I don’t get it. They are marvels of nature. They’re just fascinating in everything they do.

>>510136776
Birds have incredibly high neural density so their brains are very smart for their size

>>510136761
They have the European Bee Eater.
It's very pretty.

>>510111594 (OP)
What does it do?

i've only been on yuropoorean soil once and it was an utter nightmare. france. dogshit and nigs everywhere

>>510136971
Bee eaters are pretty cool. I was in NZ over Christmas and I found this Bellbird which is related. Coolest sounding bird I’ve ever heard, and they’re all different

>>510136972
It's wings flutter so fast it's like a blur similar to helicopter wings. It has to consume sugars all day to maintain it's energy otherwise it dies.
When it rests it's heart rate slows far more so than normal animals and humans in order to retain energy for the next day. It basically goes into deep meditation.
The humming bird is a hyper pollinator helping flowers grow.

>>510136971
However I still rank hummingbirds higher sorry

>>510136972
It flies, but it can hover, fly backward and upside down.

>>510111594 (OP)
remember first time i saw one in usa was pretty neato
i remember my uncle exclaiming to us later that he saw a squirrel really excited.
we would see squirrel every day at home so just went...er okay?

>>510113903
Thats a flying squirrel not a bird
Or it looks like it. And if it is a bird its cringe anyway

>>510135173
Check the filename

>>510137246
Interesting. But
>a hyper pollinator helping flowers grow
We've already got bees so I don't think we need them.

>>510137655
Squirrels are everywhere here

>>510137732
Its a moth dummy

>>510111594 (OP)
I know that some anons will go out and buy hummingbird feeders now, so remember this important fact; you need to swap out the sugar water every single day or else it will poison and kill the little birbs for some reason

>>510137791
how odd

>>510138035
i don't even change it weekly and I have the same birbs out there drinking the stuff all day every day this leaf is deslusional

>>510137780
Bees can’t see red

>>510138149
It depends on the weather, too much heat from the sun can spoil it faster. I usually change it every other day or twice a week.

>>510138149
If they come back daily so much that you recognize them then how aren't you refilling your feeders daily? checkmate amerikunt

>>510138035
Not true at all. It’s true that bacteria could ferment the sugar potentially but you would be able to tell easily if that happened

>>510111594 (OP)
They have hummingbird moths at least.

>>510138402
How much do you think hummingbirds eat? It’s not a full feeders worth per day, not even close

We have hummingbird moths over here too. First time I ever saw one as a kid I got scared and ran inside and told my grandma I just saw some kind of alien. Little fuzzy flying lobster thing.

Hummingbirds have been the most long-standing hoax ever. I can't believe we're all still pretending they're real.

Just think about it. A warm-blooded vertebrate that hovers like an insect? It needs a constant supply of nectar just to fuel its absurd metabolism, and if it goes a couple hours without that nectar, it immediately dies. It's ridiculous

Every video of a hummingbird is fake. It all as an in-joke by Disney animators. Now they're continuing the hoax with CGI.

>>510139017
This guy lives in a frozen wasteland with no hummingbirds. What a sad life.

>>510113469
They've got all kinds of incredible wildlife down there.

>>510138342
Splooter

>>510136761
Wallcreepers are very cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtUOAatAxA

>>510111594 (OP)
I saw a baby humming bird with its mom at some flowering bushes in my back yard this year. ruby throated humming birds - shimmering green except the neck. Anyway the baby was the size of a bumble bee. Very cool.

>>510138498
nectar isn't even their primary food source, they eat bugs like most every other species of bird
nectar is just a bonus for them

>>510140207
Thats where they get thier water

>>510138498
About three days for my two cup feeder lately. They're constantly at it.

One of those niggas got into my apartment at 4am and started bumping against everything at light speed
trying to leave. Scared me shitless until I figured out what it was. Fantastic animals. Can I feed them sugary water or do I have to buy that gay red syrup thing?

>>510111594 (OP)
I've lived in central Texas my whole life and I don't think I've seen one single hummingbird in 45 years. Another thing that sucks about Texas I guess.

>>510111594 (OP)
I've seen one with my own eyes outside my window
checkmate

>>510139017
Damn it, you figured it out. Yeah, it's all an elaborate hoax.

>>510140837
Sugar water is fine. You don't need to color it.

>>510141010
that was a helicopter

Ever see two hummingbirds duel over a feeder? They fence with to their beaks.

>>510142551
*with their beaks

I just replaced the food in my feeders because of this thread

I would have done it anyway sooner or later but anyway

>>510140837
some of the commercial stuff has added minerals that help their eggs have harder shells and what not but I think just
1 cup of granulated sugar per 4 cups of (boiled) water works. you can store the leftovers for ~2 weeks.

>>510139578
I've seen hundreds, but never a tiny/young one

>>510111594 (OP)
Imagine never hearing hummingbirds divebomb during mating season