Baby was throwing the egg out of the nest Mom caught the baby and saved the egg

[@kermquak2369]

that was most likely a cuckoo baby with his instinct to back-push out other eggs and baby birds..

[@gheffz]

I was thinking the same!

[@dashriprock4308]

Quite true. Dead giveaway. Always astonished that momma bird does not recognize the imposter and continues to feed it.

[@Count_Rossolon]

It is a cukoo

[@thinkhector]

It's definitely a cuckoo bird. You can tell by it's extra large legs.

[@1badEK]

Yeap. Baby is a little cuckoo.

[@atsiawrecke7750]

The cuckoo bird’s instinct to dispose of a rival is so strong that it will eventually succeed to push out that egg when the parent isn’t there. After all, it was doing that while the parent was present!

[@HeyEllie02]

I've seen videos where they push them even with the parents present :(

[@ChristianXavier-h3e]

Once they develop it can become competitive(It's usually like this for a lot of predator birds, even for siblings). However, when they're younger the urge to push other eggs out is compulsive and instinctual, their backs are hypertrophied to give them enough strength to do this. It's like feeling an itch on your back

[@tazylab6233]

The one pushing the egg on this one was her own child not the cuckoo

[@LockBunn]

That's not a cuckoo. Just poorly positioned.

[@WideCuriosity]

All she's done is postponed the tragedy for another day.

[@ayubshaikh9156]

Yes , hear the Cukoo in the background .???

[@KateManova-u2u]

😂true 😅

[@styxriverr5237]

I actually learned in another video like this that the Cuckoo mothers check on the nests they place their eggs into, no egg or cuckoo chick? Destroyed nest is the reward. Cause I found it strange the videos where a camera man only just put the chicks or eggs back into the nest, and that explained why.

[@mamad3170]

Also sad that she fed the invasive one which was more insistent about asking for food than her own chicks. Nature's rough!

[@MixedChick1]

oh I was wondering why that bird looked different

[@seanlee7563]

That's the cuckoo chick, a parasitic bird. You see how it looks subtly different from other chicks. Its behavior is to try to get rid of the host's eggs and new hatchlings to eliminate food competition.

[@manumano-yc7cq]

Very correct observation 👍🏻

[@Le-Korl]

Yes we know. That’s why people watched dude

[@ПетрРябошапка-ц2з]

Кукушка паразит лишь в продолжении рода ,а в природе она выполняет свою работу не хуже других птиц,она уничтожает такие виды вредителей что другие птицы не способны это сделать а кукушка может .

[@ibuumar]

hi...may i know..how is the cuckoo which you are saying get into the nest with other babies?

[@jelorenzana3262]

The mommy cuckoo would lay eggs on nests when mother birds were not around and leave the eggs there.

[@JamesWatt47]

Luckily the siblings are seemingly older and stronger than the parasite cuckoo. Hopefully the mother is already giving less food to the alien chick. The rest egg seems to be never born now.

[@المتفائل-ز5ف]

10 ايام فقط و يصبح فرخ الوقواق بحجم الام و الاب و يطرد الصغار للاسف كم اكره طائر الوقواق

[@laitdejabot9890]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@damaracarpenter8316]

I hope we get updates on this. Echoing other commenters I think that's a cuckoo and it will probably continue trying to get rid of the other chicks/egg.

[@andreaa7695]

Oh yes I think so too

[@CrowPal]

It seems a different colour to the other chicks, or at least younger, so that's likely. Mother should have tossed the impostor, but doesn't seem to realize.

[@dawsie]

Yep it’s a cuckoo it’s hardwired into them to push out an egg if it feels one, she is just lucky that her other chicks have already hatched or they two would have had the same fate as the last egg.

[@joannagruzewska9437]

Her own chicks looks at least few days old - the remaining egg is propably not fertilized, so if cuckoo won't throw it out, mom will do it when she'll find out

[@bluepawn]

@@CrowPal In Brasil few years ago... in poor areas... your humain babies don't belong to the right parents... sometimes, the parent were not as "dark" as the baby but the hospital nurse didn't care at all and gave the baby to the wrong parent and the most idiot thing : the parent didn't care either...

[@idaliedanter129]

And he still working on get the darn egg out 😂

[@Animeshelly0120]

I was getting mad anxiety watching that egg balance over the edge like that

[@katielyb]

For a second there is almost looked like Mom was thinking to herself that something is off. Maybe wondering why one of her babies looks different

[@sabri6677]

Mom : save the egg... Cuckoo baby : not for long mom...🤣🤣

[@mmca7288]

That seems to me to be another bird species in the nest trying to get rid of the egg deliberately and will eventually starve the other chicks or push them out too! I've watched this happen on documentaries b 4 and unfortunately the parents will keep feeding it as if it were their own

[@kanewilson8624]

It’s called the Cuckoo Bird

[@techshabby0001]

The nest looks crowded. I wouldn't be surprised if it is natural to get rid of the last egg. But yea, cuckoos are notorious for that.

[@Wuubaboo]

Cuckoo chicks usually hatch before the mother birds original eggs with the purpose to grow quicker and stronger to push the eggs or chicks out. On top of this a baby cuckoo usually has a brighter and larger mouth to cause the mother bird to feed it more

[@esauperezgarcia5673]

I hoped the mom would push the chick out of the nest to protect the egg, but nope, she kept feeding the damn cuckoo. RIP baby birds.

[@ResidentFurryx]

Most birds aren't as intelligent as a lot of KZbin commenters like to say they are, unfortunately. Though, even if they did, the Cuckoo mother will sometimes check nests of their hosts and will often destroy them if their offspring was thrown out. Which both discourages genes of birds good at detecting the swap, and prompts them to start a new set of hatchlings, if done early into the season.

[@StargazingVoidYT]

That baby is testing mama’s patience

[@kikirikikirlafsdfskd]

This is first time I see birds do something about cuckoos behavior and not only watching it.

[@natoonist]

Looks to me the baby had to poop and the egg got in the way. Mom got his poop shortly after. He’s smaller than the others, and cuckoos generally pick nests of smaller birds early on so the difference won’t be noticed as much and it will be easier to to push out the other babies.

[@mah29001]

Imagine being in the wild. If you are going to eat a baby bird, eat a cuckoo and save the other babies. Whether it's a natural predator like a snake or other bird or a human.

[@Petemonster62]

What specie is the adult bird?

[@WilliamLabbee]

hello, that's their gig .. they often are born day-days before and clear out with extreme prejudice all competition already hatched or not, then stress out the "parents" to feed them 24/7 because - they r full-grown in one (1!!) week and outta there. quick, before the parents finally notice

[@Afrocanuk]

The Cuckoo will try again tomorrow.

[@flightydancer]

Wow, what a close call. Mom grabbed the bum of that cuckoo just in time. But she still feeds him!

[@valerym1400]

If it's a cuckoo baby, then it will throw the egg and other two babies out of the nest.

[@SupaPoopaScoopa]

She keeps looking at the camera, obviously concern of what it is.

[@adamnealis]

Cuckoo? Interesting that it is smaller than the other chicks. I thought they usually were larger than the nests they parasitise, and hatch faster too so they get time to eject all the other eggs.

[@toes6018]

The chick that tried to push the egg out of the nest was a cuckoo, 100% sure.

[@BlessedYouTuber]

Mum was eating some poop from that bird she gave some grub.

[@marylynch951]

Apparently this is what they do Lol😂

[@SammywiseG]

Some bird species do that as chicks don't fully digest their food so the parent gets some nutritional value from it as well as keeps the nest clean and reduces signs of nesting for predators to locate the nest.

[@brendalins1237]

That’s what they do!

[@erickchristensen746]

Now the question is, is that an imposter bird that got out there by another species or is that just the normal instincts of the baby in a crowded nest?

[@elib7311]

How does an invasive chick get into the nest in the first place? I’ve never heard of this, so someone please educate me?

[@carenxatu5962]

When a mother bird leaves her eggs for a moment, the cuckoo will actually lay her egg in that nest. When the cuckoo hatches it will push out other chicks and/or eggs. It’s kind of fascinating despite how very cruel it is, but nature be that way. Some birds will actually recognize the cuckoos egg and remove it.

[@rickigityrekt1237]

Coocoos will wait for the mother bird to fly away, push an egg out of the nest or even eat it, lay their egg in and fly off

[@rickigityrekt1237]

Oh yea forgot to mention sometimes coocoos will habe literal mafia groups and if the mother bird gets rid of the egg\chick most of the time the gang of coocoos will murk the mother because of it

[@rickigityrekt1237]

Cuckoo**

[@elib7311]

Thank you for helping me understand this.

[@yrubla]

What's also crazy is the mother cuckoo bird know what she's to decieve the bird to take care of her baby and the baby has a built in selfish,murdering ways about them.

[@MixedChick1]

Does the mom cuckoo come back when baby is ready to fly?

[@4차원-m4x]

뻐꾸기 새끼는 자신이 탁란이란 걸 알고, 본래 새집의 알을 본능적으로 밀어내는 것이 신기하다.

[@Devinebreathe]

Did most of them survive??

[@Oriyaku_kit]

What is this bird?

[@АлексейЗабайкалец-ю9ш]

Птенец кукушки шокирует своей силой и настойчивостью. Он только вылупился и сразу начинает убивать. Это тоже Божье создание?

[@SafariHoangdãTV]

I don't know the blue bird. What is its name?❤

[@Prasajasae]

Sangat istimewa sekali bang Semoga sukses selalu Salam kopi item

[@柯清龍-w2z]

這種藍鳥基本就是杜鵑崽的天使，當畫面中那賤鳥在推蛋時恰恰好被藍鵲鳥的母鳥打斷，但它也還不放棄要一邊搶食一邊殺害原鳥媽的幼鳥，而不能辨是非對錯的藍鵲鳥就任它作惡，若要說這種一出生就有殺害無辜的能力大概也就杜鵑才有吧？最可怕的是這幼鳥一出生就有很強大的攻擊力及高智商，真的很可怕，若物競天擇論者大概又要說三道四的叭啦叭啦一堆，若他跟藍鵲鳥幼崽立場對調，看他如何自圓其說

[@Science_Atrium]

Natural selection is a fact.

[@katielyb]

I was really hoping to see how this whole thing played out

[@martinsimeonov1563]

Grrrrŕi cant stand seeing how she feeds it

[@MixedChick1]

Over a year ago I put back a baby bird in his nest and the bird look like this invasive one. There were few baby birds in the nest that were bigger and look similar or the same as the babies here. Later that day I found the featherless one on the ground dead. I was very depress and I blamed myself for putting the baby back in the nest. Was the baby I tried to save an invasive chick? or did the mother kill the chick because it wasnt develope like the rest?. I live in Canada.

[@metubyaj7675]

The worst baby bird on earth is cuckoo baby bird.

[@CHIKAENTERTAINMENT07]

Masih bayi baru menetas butunga semangat

[@bruanlokisson8615]

Nice staging, do you do any training with the adults to aid in making these videos? In a previous one it looked as if you had trained the adult to ignore the parasite in favor of her own by using some white colored treat as a reward when she ignored it, even despite the parasite chick's strenuous actions to be front and center.

[@ZiyadKhan8]

What happens to the eggs if some don’t hatch.

[@SpyricaDragoste]

Is that her first time being a mom? Shes kinda sorta... Feeding them a crumpled leaf 😂

[@jacekskupinski6030]

Where are next days ? Greetings from Poland

[@jocelialima9480]

O vontade de pegar essa cuco e jogo árvore a baixo

[@chithraa4445]

brought up a baby is very difficult in bird's life also🙄🙄🙄

[@idaliedanter129]

😂 I laughed at the bird

[@royrice8021]

Very early case of sibling rivalry……..😳

[@jemlyn67]

Sometimes people have kids and then dump off on other people too.

[@debbievelazquez1467]

The bays like feed me or the kid gets thrown out🙌

[@hollypatrick1050]

the naked baby is not invasive he was the most recent to hatch and the other have down or pin feathers

[@daneg]

lol no. it's a cuckoo. different species. cuckoos drop their eggs in other birds' clutches. look them up. it's definitely an invasive/alien chick in the nest. their instinct when hatched is to immediately push the nest's natural chicks/eggs out before they hatch or while they're young. they're literally built to do push eggs and hatchlings out with their back exactly as you see it doing in this video.

[@peterd.9978]

"Four eggs in... One bird out!"

[@icc64]

I understand this instinct habbit keep on , only few days or so , after that the chick is same like rest , so can be a right explanation , and we can see all chicks growing up together , of course cuckoos are a bit larger built , nature is amazing. , big reminder is not the only con species in this world , so people no need to hate theme , is place under the sun for all species , important us , humans destroyed this paradise called earth , 🌎 , 😢😢😢

[@iandavison5092]

Coockoo chicks have a ‘super gape’, it’s wider and brighter then the other chicks and the foster parents can’t help but try and fill it!

[@ParagPandit]

Grubhub food delivery 😝

[@fitnessbabe7958]

😩🤣😂😭😭😭😭😭

[@anglophils645]

I'm not sure that Mom was right. Why has the remaining egg not hatched? If it was never fertilized, it will sit there and go bad, creating bacterial contamination in the nest. Perhaps the nestling's instincts were correct-----get it out of the nest, before it goes bad.

[@arkadiptabiswas2769]

You talk with such confidence. If only you weren't saying 🐂 💩

[@blackshadowWR]

it doesn't seem like the mom saved the egg, right when she leaves it will do it again

[@ruthmutuli1575]

Please photographer, save the species of the eggs dropped by the cuckoo villain. Please contribute to save these birds. We could even launch the movement ❤❤❤

[@dhoopchhayageet]

very nice new friends,, 2:32

[@aprilmae274]

Aww..his poor wee baby head was stuck under him! Look at how she waited to feed him specifically. He needed food the mostest.

[@evilsharkey8954]

He’s most likely a brood parasite, some other bird’s offspring, hence the instinct to push out the competition

[@aprilmae274]

@@evilsharkey8954 I thought maybe so at first-but no..his fat wee baby head is stuck under and he is trying to get unstuck. Mom had to help that bendy neck hah

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@aprilmae274 He tried pushing the egg out twice. He’s putting his head down on purpose.

[@aprilmae274]

@evilsharkey8954 I only saw the one time..he seemed to struggle. He has that fatty baby bird head all tucked down heh...she really does seem to wait to feed him specially tho. It was cool to watch play out.

[@jamilgonzaga7081]

​@@aprilmae274it's a cuckoo bird

[@Luckyispro9]

That hurts when ur parents bites you💀🤣

[@jamilgonzaga7081]

That's not even its own child

[@katielyb]

I had to laugh at how it looks like a headless bird

[@juanjosemendivil1626]

Thanks to "True Facts about..." (in KZbin, i believe that one baby bird is an imposter. I also believe that specific baby bird have a curve like beack at the tip.

[@dsherwood3889]

OMG This is a freaking M.Night Shyamalan movie.

[@ChaosDragon004]

Birds are such beautiful but yet dumb creatures.

[@CeeceeWhip]

If that egg hasn’t hatched by now, will it ever?

[@Mr_Amit]

The chicks already look atleast 1 week old... maybe it's just a non fertilized egg

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Coocoo chick is younger, but the other two could ba one week old. Watch the mother offer food, but take it away again from the bad one? Then she counts her nestlings, before offering anew.

[@WJAlexander-o6t]

I know some people like that cuckoo bird.

[@nickynik5951]

Cute baby bird😁💕🐦👍

[@JamesWatt47]

It's not. It's a cuckoo, a parasite

[@88marome]

It's too small to be a cuckoo, isn't it?

[@charlottegolden8749]

She SOOOO FLUFFFA

[@sharpfamily4938]

If the host birds could just learn to build deeper nests!

[@melvarojas5935]

Primera ves que veo que hace que suelte el huevo que lo iba a tirar y ella lo sigue alimentando al depredador mientras los suyos estan desnutridos

[@TitusSamuel-qd2uy]

It has more to do with the incapability of the mother, the baby sees death for mother if she is over worked. These seemingly cruel acts are not competition, they are kind of math needed to live life on the razors edge.

[@agusgt5296]

Kamera jernih

[@AuTini]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@theAremuIntheGame]

Dang…so I’m thinking they must be a protected species or something…otherwise it’d feel so wrong to watch a mother cuckoo set these evil traps for the other unsuspecting mothers and babies 😢

[@joseuribemorelcaceres]

Yo tengo muchos periquito 🐦

[@chateaupig826]

Baby gets insect , mum gets baby shit 🤢

[@birdlifenest]

good

[@Grausel]

And then she kills it herself, because it was smaller and weaker than the others...

[@BIBIANATayco]

Newborn Bird: Ill kill you my brother egg! EGG: ÆÆÆÆÆÆHHH!!! Mommy Bird: whas going on das my youngest🤨🧐

[@rcnelson]

I think this poses a problem for macro-evolutionists. To develop an ingrained tendency to drop an egg in a foreign nest, have the cuckoo become indistinguishable to the alternate mother, and the cuckoo to chuck the other birds in the nest, would require hundreds of thousands or millions of attempts to establish. That's a trait that seems to me to be nigh unto impossible. On the other hand, if it's divine intent then God would seem to have a wicked sense of humor.

[@MortenAbildgaard-h2z]

Bord's like the Federal/Fiat Bank, Egg's a potential Innovative/Productive Enterprise and the Impostor Chick's Green/DEl Startups

[@mobileplayers5008]

Mom should stopped feed the baby n throw him out. The last egg is dead without proper incubation.

[@petgoosepaulringo33]

wow❤❤

[@joseuribemorelcaceres]

👏👏😃💚💚🫂

[@abist_almukawinat]

❤❤❤

[@pattiniamo10]

This looks all fake, why is the Cuckoo bird smaller than the others? usually the cuckoo is alone after pushing all the eggs or chicks out, or larger than the others because is more aggressive at feeding. and why is there still an egg long after the others hatching?

[@corvusaltair6709]

Birds (nearly every species) don’t lay all of their eggs at once. A full clutch typically consists of eggs laid several days apart from each other. This means it’s extremely common to have hatchlings with one or two unhatched eggs, or siblings that look like they’re in completely different life stages.

[@ta8986]

Clickbait because the cuckoo was not thrown out!

[@easylife2647]

[@ПетрРябошапка-ц2з]

Наступного разу в нього вийде це зробити.

[@jamnorge]

Thatt is crazy, and we humans are no different. lol

[@icc64]

Nature has her own course 😢.is not jst cuckoo the only con in animal world

[@Belleplainer]

Given how large the other chicks are, that egg will probably not hatch. Even if it did, the bird would never make it. The cuckoo chick would make sure of that, even if the mother tried to feed it.

[@WordyBirdNerd]

❤

[@cucuyuningsih5140]

Bagus video

[@chihauhaun]

So I have a question that google can't seem to give me as it just keeps reiterating that cuckoos shove the host eggs/babies out of the nest by instinct (no duh, we get it google). How can they tell other cuckoo eggs/babies apart from the host eggs/babies? From what I can tell they don't push their fellow brood parasites out, just the host babies but then google also tells me they will push any object (even a human hand) out of the nest by instinct. If that is the case does that mean they can tell each other apart from the host babies via smell or something similar? I mean if they don't push out other cuckoo eggs then we'd have to rule sound out so smell is really all I can think of. I even tried looking up experiments to see what objects they might push out of a nest but google scholar is just a hot mess these days. Just curious and didn't want to bother posting the question on Reddit :p