Meet The Smallest Bird On Earth

[@feeberizer]

Living, flying, glittering gemstones...

[@a.v.fineart768]

Hummingbird sketch kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4DNmZSmpbecpZI pls visit

[@Ellagene7]

Awww I love that so much!

[@Daniel_Huffman]

Nice Mimas profile picture.

[@anastasiafalcon4637]

The work of camerapeople of those videos always blows my mind.

[@brysenbovee8389]

It could be like a drone or something?

[@TheOz1999]

@@brysenbovee8389 Even if it is a drone, you would still need to control both the camera on the drone and the drone itself.

[@philipeisenberg6984]

Yes, moving videography.

[@gutenman7112]

@@brysenbovee8389 drones drives the birds away , its too noisy . But they ive seen they used a drone that looks like a humming bird to spy a colony of butterflies ., Because humming birds doesnt scare butterflies , they have the same food source

[@nofrigginidea3728]

its animated

[@zuesdelrey4348]

80 flaps per second blows my mind!

[@XxKamaelxX]

For a second I read " 80 faps per second..." wel that's still impressive I guess

[@YY4Me133]

@@XxKamaelxX 😁

[@Johnnytorres7573]

Wao now that is fast One thousand one 80 whaaaat...

[@unoreversecard8180]

Some do 200 flaps per second

[@dakotagordon8756]

Helicopters of the bird world.🐔

[@Mahyuddin-cf]

I like all wild bird because I am coffee farmer and wild birds are very important for sustainable farming

[@thehawk217]

nice

[@noela.9843]

nice

[@thehawk217]

y is everyone copying me?

[@TheGhostLine]

nice

[@mayazhussain]

nice

[@graphite2786]

Yesterday I was lamenting the lack of video of the bee humming bird ( the tiny dino skull they found in amber piqued my interest) . And then today this vid came out, cheers!

[@AlexDomain1]

In case anyone is wondering, the Bee Hummingbird is only found in CUBA. The video for some reason didn't even mention this little fact.

[@SimBol1216]

It's in the description

[@boocy3859]

They’re so cute! ☺️

[@radicalthunder5740]

And tiny! 😍

[@mikeyd946]

It’s near impossible for me to fathom how small that is! Mother Nature is incredible!

[@Thawhid]

It's like I won't believe till I see it. But even if I ever see it irl I still wouldn't believe its size! 😂

[@lotte5173]

Mother Nature ????? Didnt you recognize Father God in this?

[@wradford1990]

​@@lotte5173The two need not be mutually exclusive. Where you see Father God,I see Mother Nature. Two sides to the same coin. I really wish people didn't fight over such things. Both are names for a force beyond us.

[@CimboAkinci]

@@lotte5173 Theres no god

[@lotte5173]

@@CimboAkinci There is.....

[@softhunterdevil]

Last scene where it's snoaring while sleeping was best part.

[@PatchworkQuilt8]

yup

[@sussekind9717]

I used to go see my grandfather every summer and he had a hummingbird feeder that had probably about 15 regular visitors a day. Ruby throated and yellow bellies were the most common. They were fun to watch when I was a kid. I googled images of bee hummingbirds, and it puts it into a lot better perspective. Instead of wasting all that time building a nest, she coulda just flipped over a mushroom cap and fastened it to the branch and just lay her eggs in there. It would have been big enough.

[@Kefka.]

Might be too heavy to lift.

[@sussekind9717]

@@Kefka. A fresh one yes, I would agree. However, one that has already dried out, would be very light (Considering mushrooms are 85% to 99%+ water). Although at that point, the stipe might cause the hummingbird a problem, unless they could somehow snip it off. I'm just going down a "what if" trail.🤔

[@maxhay7117]

Bro's saw millions of years of evolution and was like "nah, I could do better"

[@galxyunvrse]

The bee hummingbird is found in Cuba, although we call it there Zúnzún. I’m from Cuba and I have seen many. In the airports even on the streets. My grandpa used to have one but he set it free. It’s one of my favorite animals.

[@MadameMadHatter1]

I thought Cuba was the only place that they are found.

[@osheridan]

​@@MadameMadHatter1 Yes.

[@yukinagato1573]

Not only the smallest bird on Earth, they are also the smallest dinosaur known to ever exist.

[@ricochecagou]

I wish we can actually hear the bird humming sound and not the music

[@tdk99-i8n]

With nature docs it's often impractical to get good quality audio so if they didn't replace the audio with music they would just Foley artist in fake sounds anyway.

[@tdk99-i8n]

@Bob Wilson *grammar. uhhhhhhhhhhh oh god yeaaaaaaah

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

All the audio in footage like this is created in a studio and comped in after the fact. This is especially true for slow motion and telephoto footage, as it is impossible to record audio when capturing that kind of footage. Maybe their audio mixing could have been a little better, but you will never be hearing the sounds of the actual animals.

[@lizardqueen99]

@@Tinyvalkyrie410 Plus the fact that the cameras are extremely far away from whatever they're filming

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

Sam Steenson yep, that’s what I meant by telephoto 😊

[@Hallands.]

The nest looks rather special as well! What's it made of?

[@TheGreenShirtMan]

looks like lichen to me

[@snapdragonfly6652]

I'm lichen the look of it

[@zenphotojourney]

They make their nests out of local things like lichen, bark, leaves and other small plant fibers stuck together with spiderweb.

[@Hallands.]

Melani Wright It's incredibly neat, though. The lichen or small green leaves seems placed like roof tiles meant to protect against rain...

[@Hallands.]

Melani Wright Also, I see from your channel that you notice things. Have you ever seen a crow taking an ant-bath?

[@Slow-wipe]

GOLF BALL??? COFFEE BEAN? WTFFFFFF

[@karenbrown4524]

🙂 I know, it's unfathomable.

[@lindam4953]

Lol

[@kevinmael3862]

I saw a nest at the bottom of my apartment stairwell. The nest had two birds. The nest looks like it would be smug around a golf ball. It’s basically true.

[@dlg.studios5649]

I once saw hummingbird eggs. At my grandma’s house. They looked like Tic-tacs so, he isn’t joking....

[@dlg.studios5649]

@Teena Courtney Indeed, you’re right!

[@RegularInvader]

Hummingbirds in general are such a favorite of mine, especially since I managed to save one while volunteering at a vet clinic. Nobody in the whole clinic knew what to do until I introduced "Omar's Exotic Birds" shop regarding an earlier bird rescue I accomplished. I managed to get a hold of an expert who took it in and has kept it until it got old enough to be set free.♥️

[@squirrel670]

Nice

[@RegularInvader]

@@squirrel670 And the clinic was able to save the bird shop's number thanks to me. Just two weeks later is when another wild bird rescue occurred, so the number really came in handy.

[@squirrel670]

@@RegularInvader That's really good and important connections are so life-saving to have. I only saved a possum hit by a car and it was so hard to find anyone who would take it in and be able to help but i finally did. It was a wild ride and I'll never forget it through the tears and screaming and all. It is a wonderful thing.

[@RegularInvader]

@@squirrel670 I will never forget how I had the courage to drive all the way to the expert's house to give her the Box. Because of a traffic jam somewhere, I was on the road for an hour and a 1/2. It was all worth it since I was able to meet her and she gained a new business reference after I filled out a form she gave me. She gained so many other arrivals before me when she gave me a tour of her little nursery. She's actually on a news segment; Anne Stratton is her name.

[@Chris.Davies]

These tiny hyper-speed dinosaurs are truly stunning. I wish we had them in NZ.

[@AnythingButBecky1127]

Same here, but I'm in Ohio. Pretty sure they live in Cuba

[@elyenidacevedo1995]

@@AnythingButBecky1127 we have some in the US

[@AnythingButBecky1127]

@@elyenidacevedo1995 bee hummingbirds live in Cuba. There are some species of hummingbird in Ohio, but not the bee hummingbird.

[@elyenidacevedo1995]

@@AnythingButBecky1127 oh ok yeah that's what I was thinking about then.

[@esmoonieya]

i miss my home. a mama bee hummingbird live on of my mom flower tree. my phone cam was suck, i cant even record their lovely hunting for nectar. glad that this species is documented and easily accessed.

[@chulaniiddawela5484]

Hummingbirds are fascinating. They're not here in our country yet they are my favourite

[@notsohandytim5090]

Details of the natural world never fail to blow my mind.

[@demonsaint1296]

I love hummingbirds, absolutely love them.

[@bruvify8517]

They're very elegant birds

[@The_Ballo]

They hate each other, though

[@PtVienna316]

it is also the smallest dinosaur on earth and i love it!

[@Tai-chan.]

Wow, such a beautiful bird. My island has the second smallest humming bird (Vervain hummingbird). These birds are so magnificent, no wonder they're the national bird here. We have 5 types. The other four are the Red-billed streamer tail, black-billed streamer tail, Ruby-throated and the Jamaica Mango which is only found here and no where else in the world.

[@PatchworkQuilt8]

isn't it fun to use the word "magnificent" when describing such a small creature!

[@timhaley3459]

Many are amazed at what engineers have devised in the world of flight, but how many have looked at the greatest fliers of all time - birds ? For example, the hummingbird that was in the video. In terms of body lengths per second, a diving hummingbird flies faster than a fighter jet, said a researcher from the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. some 15 years ago. Christopher Clark filmed the courtship rituals of male Anna’s hummingbirds and calculated that when swooping to impress females, “the feathered acrobats reached speeds of almost 400 body lengths per second.” He said that such a speed is comparatively “greater than [that] of a fighter jet” at full throttle. When pulling up at the end of its dive, the bird is subject to a force ten times the pull of gravity-more than fighter pilots can stand without losing consciousness. All birds have just two wings and are able to perform really miraculous flight, some ' turning on a dime ', weave in and out through a maze of branches in a forest and then land quietly on a tree limb, while there is the long distance fliers, such as the Arctic Tern, who has been known to travel some 56,000 miles in one year, going from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back without getting lost. Then there is the "speedsters", the hummingbird, that beats its wings anywhere from 50 to 80 times a second and depending upon the hummingbird bird, the giant hummingbird beats its wings only 10 to 15 times a second, having a wingspan of about 8.5 inches while its body length is about 9.1 inches, weighing about 3/4 of an ounce, and having a heartbeat of about 300 times a minute while resting but can reach over 1,000 when at peak performance. The Bee hummingbird (which is found only in Cuba) beats it wings up to 80 times a second (but during a courtship flight, they can beat up to 200 times per second), measures only about 2 1/4 inches long and is often mistaken for bees, weighing in less than a US dime, with the female building a nest barely an inch across, with her eggs being about the size of a coffee bean. The Ruby-throated hummingbird uses only 1/30 of an ounce of fatty fuel to cross the Gulf of Mexico to South America around September of each year for the winter, a distance of anywhere from 600 to 800 miles, and then returns the following spring to its "summer home" without getting lost. No heavy load of fuel, no training in navigation, no complicated charts or computers ! Yet, it finds it way perfectly there and back. Just an accident ? Or the superb design of a Creator ?

[@MrsCaranAmy]

They are absolutely amazing.

[@lou5368]

watching programs like this in the discovery channel when I was a kid back in the 90's I can't help but to be more amazed how they took footage and document these types of video rather than the beautiful nature they're presenting. Specially in the 90's when equipment was not as sophisticated as they are now.

[@WhiteWolfBlackStar]

The nests are fabulous! I just found a nest above my Jeep. I'm not sure what KIND of hummer I've got, but they definitely buzzz anybody that comes up that they don't know. Once they've checked you out, they'll leave you alone. The babies just hatched on June 10th I think. I can't wait to see them! These little hummers are so precious!

[@MalaysianTropikfusion]

That looks like a mango tree. Do bee hummingbird chicks eat only nectar? BTW, 2:02 is just precious 😇

[@Falafelzebub]

No they get gnats and whatever other tiny insects the mom eats.

[@kummiekins]

I’m growing morning glories just so i could attract some to my garden, and one came to visit the other day! Too bad my morning glories haven’t flowered yet. It’s so hard to find hummingbird nowadays. Growing up they used to flock the morning glories that crawled all over our fence.

[@Petrov3434]

They also eat insects

[@tennesseenana4838]

I get a lot of joy in watching the hummingbirds who come to my feeders and are on my flowers. I have 6 feeders out and there are hummers on them all day. Their food is simple to make - 1/4 cup of white table sugar mixed with 1 cup of hot water. Let that cool and put it into the feeders. They are excellent to have in your gardens since they also eat the tiny bugs you don't want on your plants.

[@isbe8810]

Those nets are beautiful and very well-designed!

[@violetlove1893]

I adore birds! I'm fascinated by small birds, especially hummingbirds. They are rare to see in regular backyards and neighborhoods anymore. But i have seen 2 this year and i get so excited when i see them from my apt. Thank you for sharing this video and the information.

[@Spacekid_Productions]

Hi it’s nice to see you here!! 😊

[@violetlove1893]

@@Spacekid_Productions heyyyy! I love nature and i have a ton of videos saved to my "nature" playlist..

[@sharonmullins1957]

Bless Mother Nature! It is full of wonder and beauty.

[@yogilad_om]

Thank you production team and to mother nature

[@chocolatechipcookieface3668]

It looks like mom puts the food the already digest all the way down in the babies stomach. It’s amazing how they are born potty trained.

[@MattBee84]

I actually came here due to the soundtrack, badhands - midnight choir. It's so good, only a portion of it was actually used in this clip. Beautiful. The birds too!

[@suecass7028]

Beautiful, fascinating, and I love to watch them. I have a feeder and enjoy them up close.

[@vanya_galya_twins2941]

I love hummingbird!Beautiful birds!❤🧡💛💚💙💜💌💖💕💞💓💗💞💝💚🤩🤩🤩🤩😘😘😘😘😍😍😍😍😍😃😃😃😃💓💓💓💞💞💞💞💕💕💕❣

[@vengefulbeauty]

About 3 years ago, I happened to notice a hummingbird flying on my backporch. I honestly thought it was a wasp at first was about to fling a shoe at it, when I saw it was a bird. After that I put up a hummingbird feeder to see if it would come back and it started visiting. It started with one bird and one feeder and now I have 3 feeders up and from what I've seen, am visited by atleast 3 or 4 pairs of hummers now. They always show up right at the start of spring and leave come the end of September, usually once we start hitting peak hurricane season. But they're the most majestic things to watch and boy can they be mean. I've witnessed fights between 2-3 males in the middle of my yard, but I'm thankful to be able to continue to see them.

[@nataniagomourastreppel668]

You're lucky! I hope they continue to visit you! :-)

[@theworthysoul]

Glad you’ve got hummingbirds around :) but why flying a shoe at a wasp outdoors? They’re good for the outside and it’d probably leave on its own.

[@Parasmunt]

Everyone would love to have these special beauties visit their garden.

[@roxanemarry7337]

Nature never fails to amaze us! ❤

[@deeppatgiri4435]

She is soo beautiful ❤️

[@lordsquable133]

It's crazy how their head stays perfectly still when they hover

[@catherinegomez4997]

Our front garden is fortunate enough to be selected by this bee hummingbird to nest. As well as two more nest from a usual sized hummingbirds. I think it is the highlight of my stay at home lockdown period😊. Didn’t know it is rare. They stayed on the vicinity after 2 months that they can fly. They are very sweet and “shows” off when watering the plants. Mind you I think they swing as sometimes 3 hummingbirds lining hangouts after each other whist the babies were being fed.

[@anniehyams587]

Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful pictures and video and the beautiful photography @ Nature PBS 👍👍🐦😀🌹🌹❤️❤️👍👍🐦🐦❤️❤️

[@BirdBath1]

Annie Hyams, look at bird bath

[@himmelsscheibevonnebra8316]

So Wunderschöööön. Reminds me on the Film " Contact".

[@manimalabiswas6439]

When I saw the bee humming birds for the first time.. I couldn't believe my eyes.. They're so tiny and so magnificent 😍🐤🌌

[@OnilMarteNavarroza]

What a beautiful nest!

[@RishiBagai]

Great work as usual PBS. Thanks

[@prabhur8456]

Awesome .. Nature is supreme power!!

[@AKCHINAEXPLORER]

Really from bottom of my heart i love this Bee Humming Bird video :) God is so kind for all of us :))

[@vaibhavbijapur6037]

i dont ever want a planet where these precious creatures are extinct. 🙏

[@sukhkaur9440]

They are the honey bees of bird kingdom.

[@tammid8423]

0:55 quite cool how it doesn't matter if they're the smallest existing one (bee hummingbird) or the largest one (common ostrich), any bird preens

[@18Bees]

Wow that’s incredible. I have many hummingbirds around my garden. The males can be quite aggressive. 😂

[@kaylathehedgehog2005]

Yeah, they can. We've got a couple of hummingbird feeders in our yard, and there's one particular male that is determined to keep any other hummingbird from drinking his nectar. He even has a lookout perch in a nearby pine tree where he watches the feeders. I think he spends more time keeping other hummingbirds away than he does actually drinking any of it.

[@fhowe4431]

I have Hummingbirds in my yard, and have had a few nests. They are amazing birds, so tiny yet so fast!

[@sherrywebber4013]

AMAZING!!! Where are they located? It's so hard to imagine a bird whose nest is the size of a golf ball. They leave the nest in 18 days?!?! An incredible bird!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@timearly5226]

Cuba

[@malenaramirez5333]

Sudamérica, en Argentina hay!

[@andrewlabat9963]

Amazing little creatures..!!

[@fabinho3999]

Muito lindo...,a natureza é perfeita obra do criador.

[@laurencecinquin9020]

Thank you for this video !!

[@aira4349]

omg been a long time since i watched docus abt animals. will watch more aaaaaaaaa i miss. the voice here sounds really soothing. ❤️

[@missrita1826]

I love hummingbirds. Amazing animal.

[@TimeTheory2099]

Thanks PBS Nature 👍

[@sandraadams5085]

Wow, how beautiful they are! It's cool to see what their nests are like.

A fantastic hummingbird and a well documented Video! 👍👍👍😀

[@IreneDowningNature]

Lovely video. Beautiful birds. Enjoyed video Irene.

[@SugarDad1]

Fun hummingbird fact; there is another very small hummingbird species with very similar name-Bumblebee Hummingbird AND it also lives in/near Zapata---Mexico!

[@andy0245]

Amazing creatures indeed!

[@rajaali8963]

Beautiful way of explanation

[@mnsubramanyam]

Oh beautiful nature

[@aforabbottabad7977]

Once i recorded a video of theses birds in my hometown. First i thought its a big bee. But than i realized that its a hummingbird and it was a beautiful experience to capture them.

[@cw5312]

I love these PBS documentaries the old lady narrator sounds like some Grandma handing out cookies to little kids

[@crow7211]

We have hummingbirds in our area that normally are very small. Idk what type tho but they are super cute.

[@Thesilenceiswhere]

Beautiful creature!!!

[@3s-sahajselfstudy]

Wow so nice to see these pretty Lil birds

[@YangYang-wp4vh]

Such adorable cuties 💜💛💚

[@neonarcade3562]

They're so cute and small 😍 😘 💚

[@dgirllamius____x]

Living in Europe I will probably never get to see these beautiful birds in the wild. I did however see some at the bird park here in Germany and I can't believe how tiny they are! So beautiful!

[@PatchworkQuilt8]

The Wild? They travel thousands of miles from homes in Costa Rica and Equatorial places and fly on migration to Germany. Just because a park now exists where a Hummingbird sources food doesn't mean it isn't "in the wild" even parks have their wildness and were once very wild places and regardless you have to look at cities even covered in their concrete slabs and steel girders as the "wilds" for some animals and birds...just because we don't see it that way anymore doesn't mean they are left with that choice.

[@ဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြဘဘြ]

@@PatchworkQuilt8 absolutely wrong!!!These are not migratory birds...their fast metabolism requires them to consume lots of food,migration for this birds is totally inviable!And with their minuscule sizes,they wouldn't stand the harsh winds of the ocean while migrating...hummingbirds have never left the americas for migration

[@KC-su9xq]

I used to see these birds in the rural part of Jamaica when I was small

[@sadiedesimone7460]

Why would anyone click a Thumbs Down on this amazing video and narration about the world’s smallest bird? I love it enough for those idiots. ❤️💕❤️💕👍👍

[@nlove3736]

i really love this bird

[@birdstv8649]

Beautiful

[@mohdfaizal2826]

I've seen it for real. So magnificent

[@subhasarkar7465]

Thank you for sharing the rare footage with us ❤️

[@melsuarez]

talk about precision flying...they are amazing birds. it's amazing they have to hit 1,000 flowers a day to survive. must require pretty good spacing between them.

[@CrucialMuzic]

We really don't realize how lucky we have it. Average lifespan for *Bee Hummingbirds: 7 years.* Average lifespan for *Humans: 79 years.*

[@thehawk217]

That is actually quite long for a animal the size of a bee

[@parkerwilkins5495]

@@thehawk217 they are way bigger than a bee

[@nafsi8519]

They are more productive than me.

[@thehawk217]

@@parkerwilkins5495 Hardly bigger than a bee

[@PatchworkQuilt8]

nevertheless, their experience must be a bit like ours, eh? considering their metabolism is hundreds of times faster...please consider that "time" as you perceive it...is a construct that you as a human create...that means EVERYBODY and EVERY creature creates its own construct so why would it not be the same for the hummingbird? and wouldn't that perception be tied to its experience and physical form and metabolism? I bet for a bee hummingbird who has to visit a thousand flowers a day 7 years is as long as 79. We just simply cannot know..."time" as per se has no definition...we know it moves forward but without gravity time doesn't exist and in reverse...I believe all creatures experience the sensation of time...i.e. the movement forward and I also believe they perceive according to the nature of their existence...in this case to be a very small and tiny creature moving at rapid speeds constantly...with a thousand feeding experiences in a day as compared to our three meals, with a short time period with which they can mate and create young...just thinking of trying to get that much into my ordinary day and it seems to me the hummingbird experiences time more intensely/rapidly by virtue of packing so much life into such a tiny body.

[@fernandogueits4009]

Never knew they existed until I was in "el junque" rainforest in Puerto Rico. If it wouldn't have stopped to take a break I would've sworn it was an insect. Incredible experience!

[@SUN-it6rf]

Absolutely Adorable ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mrdasilver]

She's right, everything about this bird is special!

[@mielesdonferro]

Beautiful! They like mango trees to nest, like the one you see in the video.

[@SalmaMassoud]

So beautiful thank you for sharing. My heart goes to those little chicks. ♥️

[@felinegroovey8627]

Exquisite and adorable.

[@kuuiporandall8703]

Such amazing little creatures. I wish we could find them in the US.

[@OAttilaHorvathO]

Absolutely amazing

[@SugarDad1]

Great video work, inspires me to improve my videos! I look forward to visiting Cuba to see these miracles of creation!

[@BirdBath1]

Ayr Miller, look at bird bath

[@marcocatano]

Glorious and precious beings. ❤️

[@ebeb516]

These birds come to my feeders everyday . They are very curious and I think some are nesting near by because I got buzzed by one near a bush in the yard at 2am . I won’t trim that bush now for fear of disturbing a nest . 🌺

[@jessemaldonado7971]

Just amazing

[@chrisstewart1258]

Thank you so much,God bless

[@flightydancer]

So sweet and cute!

[@chuengueyhwang8558]

Fantastic capture. Thank you for sharing it.

[@NatureWalk1]

Lovely Documentary ❤️