Mother Starved Immature baby to Death & Throwed it (Ep 22) | Immature Baby not getting feed

In this video one can watch how the mother(nature) is selecting only a stronger one for survival.

[@haveaniceday5780]

Soo… you’re ok to keep filming this knowing you could potentially help? You’d rather get more views it seems since the thumbnail is basically waiting for this to happen. What a shame.

[@birdsinnest]

Hi dear, camera's were fixed at a place, and no human interface will happen from day one to day of flight... Only during edition of the video footages we will get to know the happenings...🙂. And we have no rights to interfere in the nature, Mother Nature Takes everything in a balance. We humans with our interfere have already made a lot of damage to our Mother earth 🌎😒.... Anyway it's great that you are consered of a living beings... 👍

[@litolambanog7956]

@@birdsinnest we already interfere with mother nature bro. Just accept the fact that people are the destroyer of the world. And people are the reason they dont get enough food😑

[@birdsinnest]

Yes I do accept it, but we should always try to minimize our interference....

[@litolambanog7956]

@@birdsinnest people almost occupied all land whats left to them are tiny dot. We can see some of animals are scavenging our garbage. But it is what it is we just dont what competitors in food chain. We build city by destroying nature to Minimize their numbers.

[@birdsinnest]

Accepted...

[@adriannaranjo4397]

Smallest bird: *literally the only one with beak open, begging for food* Mother bird: _I'll ignore that_

[@hplus1]

no point wasting energy on the runt

[@casedistorted]

Yeah horrible mother, but that be birds. Also why I don’t feel bad when their babies are eaten by snakes, or they’re eaten by other birds.

[@martinsimeonov1563]

@@casedistorted u gotta know in medieval times mothers never got affectionate to children until they turned at least 12, showing they had the chance to survive. Depends only on the toughness of the environment. If the mother had a full support for food she'd feed them all. A good mother can do the right choice to have the most sorvivings. It just show how harsh is the wild

[@TimSimmons653]

When does it get tossed?

[@istari0]

@@TimSimmons653 Episode 27 although you have to watch closely to see the moment when the parent actually takes the dead baby out of the nest. It had died 2-3 episodes earlier.

[@ebonimom6964]

At first you think that maybe mama isnt paying attention. Many times, he seemed too small to get his beak open to even ask for food. But at 6:01, you can see mama flat out refuse to feed him. He was the only one gaping and calling and she was standing there with food, but waited for the others to gape before she gave the food out.

[@captaincory9133]

Can't blame her no room for the weak

[@dtulip1]

parents can't afford to waste the energy on feeding a weakling

[@krippaxxuseredarlordofthes9940]

how do you know they are living on the limit and feeding the small one wouldve killed the parent/the others?@@dtulip1

[@krippaxxuseredarlordofthes9940]

how do you know they are living on the limit and feeding the small one wouldve killed the parent/the others? @@captaincory9133

[@leokeo6871]

Nature: happens Snowflakes: No! Nature: I don't care what you think should happen.

[@jkoenig2677]

Birds have the right to choose! My nest my choice!

[@Pho_King_A]

That's no way to talk about trump supporters.

[@Goldenvince]

@@Pho_King_A this ha nothing to do with him!

[@rustinecraycraft3276]

You could definitely see how much bigger and stronger the 4 chicks were growing every time a parent came back to the nest but you could see the baby getting smaller and weaker too. Did it even get one bite of food in its tiny sad life?

[@RamenKing2023]

It did around 5:21

[@danmccarthy8822]

It definitely got one mouthful of food

[@bennieboi7114]

Idk but it was probably a bite or 2 for another bird so win win the other babies get more food and another bird gets a meal. When a mother bird throws a chick from the nest and a predatory bird sees it it’s over with. Especially crowd they are vicious to other chics. They gotta eat too tho..

[@melissamcclain34]

When you have that many mouths to feed with such small insects there are going to be at least one that doesn't get fed as much. The mom would spend 24 hours a day catching food and feeding to keep them all equally full

[@thomasmleahy6218]

The parents are identical, both incubate, brood, and feed the chicks, so it's a 50/50 chance the father is feeding, tending the chicks. Nesting is one of phases of life with a high mortality rate for all bird species. Often times there are more chicks than the availability of prey can support. The most aggressive chick(s) get the most food, there will be one or two smaller chicks, quite often it's the chick that was hatched last, that's why it's smallest, and will be crowded out for getting fed.

[@fathergabrielstokes4706]

It's 3 A.M. and I should be asleep 🤣

[@annudi]

The title is misleading, I didn't see her threw any of them. The clip starts with five chicks and ends with five. Surely, the small one is the least fed, but he is surviving as the video ends.

[@whiwhimee]

Click bait for sure.

[@Civ33]

the video is broken up, in a follow up video, the chick is dead and the mother throws its carcass out of the nest

[@Xane_Dragon]

😂 I always read the comments first. Didn't watch

[@nationwidepromo6536]

Wanted to see it badly your a psycho path

[@annudi]

@@nationwidepromo6536 So, why you are here in the first place😁

[@JoeKickarse92]

Comment section be like; "Hey can you go and shove your foreign bacteria covered hand in near the delicate baby birds to try and feed the little one, maybe use like metal tweezers to shove the worm in its fragile mouth?" Imagine coming home and seeing a giant creature rummaging around in your nest, momma wouldn't even come back to check on them. Sorry little bud, hope it gets enough scraps like at 5:21 to keep going.

[@AnchorOfTime]

Thank you for being one of the few with a brain in here. Kin Wai Chau is being very rude and verbally abusive to the uploader

[@CLOWNBOT00]

Depends on the population of the species of birds, if endangered, interference is necessary.

[@coertvanderburg8482]

Hte instinct of the mother is to feed to most hungry and indirectly the most strong ones. That is the beek that is most prominent visible for her. When a young has had food, the next round another one will scream harder as it is still hungry and thus more chance of getting a portion. A late born is smaller than its brothers/sisters so automatically excluded from the feeding rounds. It will die and normally a parent will remove it from the nest.

[@lusilvaa10]

obrigado por responder essa situação

[@thomasmleahy6218]

The most aggressive chicks get the most food, simple as that.

[@animalsaroundustv5410]

We love your channel, very interesting videos, you guys do a great job ❤️👍

[@littlebanshee]

Love liars that’s great

[@kei2142]

From all these videos I noticed it might be possible that birds lay and hatch extra eggs to hedge for early deaths but can't possibly feed and raise them all. Culling undersized chicks becomes routine in their reproduction strategy.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Absolutely correct.

[@detectivedan6411]

It's kinda harsh, but it's interesting to see how bird species deal with having too many mouths to feed.

[@itsmisscoco]

@Matt C lmaoo

[@kakerodark1397]

@Matt C yikes

[@windtalker4191]

@Matt What were your grades or school work like? If not good chances are you were not ready for college, which means you would have wasted their money. There are too many people in college that shouldn't be there. You can one day support yourself through college, but do so only if you take it seriously.

[@elegyofthering6363]

Don´t listen to these ignorant people, first, this is very common in all nests and ensures that the litter comes out strong. Second, our techniques destroy millions of lives and I can assure you that these "frustrated environmentalists" do nothing, it seems perfect to me that you do not intervene unless it is an endangered species, we already intervene too much for the damage to the environment , great job providing knowledge.

[@animal1nstinct394]

when the little one finally got some small amount to eat he started trying more. hope he survived

[@tonyg-2jz82]

Yah no he died

[@TovKafur]

@@tonyg-2jz82 Baby birds exist to die in amusing ways. Hopefully this one was launched to the Moon and was eaten by Moon people.

[@chrispiss2195]

Tony lol he died

[@bennieboi7114]

Ye he deed…

[@glamtv4985]

The smallest one keeps on begging for food even though the rest of the bigger are sleeping. When the mother bird arrives, all the other bigger ones will cry for food and the smallest will be pushed away

[@bennieboi7114]

That’s nature…

[@junebug8276]

6:03 she was about to feed the little one but stopped herself 🥺

[@zesty2023]

Mom's just like 'nah no food for you, fuck you kiddo lol'

[@windtalker4191]

That's nature. It is ruthlessly efficient and it works. Often the immature chick or offspring is the weakest and will die. So feeding it would be a high risk of wasting resources, energy, and effort from the parents that could have been given to the healthier chicks/offspring. These chicks need to grow up fast and leave the nest before a predator appears, or some unknown event that happens to make it more difficult to survive.

[@danettewelborn5577]

I didn't know throwed was a word. I thought my whole life, it was threw or "had thrown". Good Lord. Threwed!

[@gulhanmpamuk9951]

bu nasıl ebeveyn 😡. oradaki en küçük yavruyu beslemiyor.

[@chalhmingacolney5424]

You'r video is exellence, keep it up.

[@ladyselin35]

Birds are survivalists. Humans have their emotions to let them drag them down. In birds point of view they recognize which chick is healthly which is not. So theyre feeding the healthlier ones to make sure at least they survive.

[@0minous187]

6:00 it almost fed it again but was like oh its you.. nope.. then was like come on dinner and they all woke up and fed it to one

[@timidsore7933]

Yeah that was heartbreaking Felt bad for the chick

[@jayocaine2946]

Why

[@ernestosanchez2942]

I didn’t see any bird starve to death And secondly this is their nature it’s how it is what’s a person suppose to do Only the strong survive

[@dagconst1]

CPR ? Lol

[@SBHC16Hs]

餌やり偏ってる…一番小さい雛鳥は最初から見捨ててるのかな？

[@DarkVoidIII]

5:21 The smallest chick got some food! If some of the others make it to fledging stage, there will be less chicks in the nest to feed and one of the parents will probably start feeding the late born chick. It might still survive yet, if it can hang in there! Edit: Some commenters claim the channel owner is editing out the small chick getting fed. As I have shown, this is absolutely false. If the small chick gets fed on camera, it is shown, as it just was.

[@Macachee]

Oh you’re right! He did get some food! I feel a bit better now!

[@istari0]

@@Macachee Sorry but in case you missed it, the small one died the next day. The amount of food he was getting was nowhere near enough for him to survive on.

[@CorporateCornholio]

@@istari0 That is not in the video. When it stops the little one is still active and begging to be fed. The video may have originally been longer and reuploaded without the ending. Now it is just the five babies being fed, the end.

[@istari0]

@@CorporateCornholio I never said it was in this video. This video is one of dozens the channel creator uploaded showing the life of these Mynas from birth until fledging. Videos from the next day show the runt nestling's death and removal from the nest.

[@Roasty420]

The weak die and The strong survive, that is the way of life.

[@saleplazma5109]

i never saw the mother didn feed baby in the nest.

[@Roasty420]

It was the smallest, why feed the weakest bird, when it’s a waste of time? She has four strong and healthy birds that need the food more anyways, that tiny scrub bird was a waste.

[@marosenmd294]

@@saleplazma5109 You clearly have not watched very many videos of nesting birds! I look at the new posts at end of summer season. Many examples of "natural selection" are uploaded. That is many examples of unfed/uncared for "runts" are on youtube. Don't say "I never saw", you obviously never looked to begin with. Now you can go back to sleep.

[@DarkVoidIII]

I saw a feeding video like this a long time ago on KZbin, what eventually happened in the other video series was that the rest of the chicks fledged and one of the parent birds stayed on to feed it. And eventually it fledged but later than it's siblings. They might also starve but this is nature's way, the strong with the will to survive will grow to fledge and become adult birds in time, the weak will die and be removed. This is how nature works, it's a cycle that should not be interrupted, as disturbing as it may seem to some people.

[@maryeverett2266]

I genuinely don't understand why you think this is all okay because it's natural selection. Saying that something is nature doesn't mean anything because everything is nature. Humans interfering with natural selection would also be nature. Humans evolved to have compassion for other animals.

[@DarkVoidIII]

@@maryeverett2266 I genuinely don't understand why you don't think wildlife should not be allowed to evolve naturally and without interference from humans, irrespective of what feelings they have for wildlife. Wildlife has a right to live it's own life and will do that, if we don't interfere with it. Humans interfering with natural selection is beyond nature, but it is *human* nature. There's a big difference between nature, meaning Mother Nature, as I grew up to understand the term, and human nature. You just don't seem able to distinguish the two. 54 years of life has taught me that we should not interfere with Mother Nature, any kind of interference from humans is bad, period. QED.

[@votebluenomatterwho2532]

No, nature is about equality.

[@Butterfly-mt5ml]

@@maryeverett2266 🤦🏾‍♀️🤡

[@Butterfly-mt5ml]

@@DarkVoidIII 🎯 Wonderfully stated! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@nassermj7671]

Mother nature discovered what took man a good while - ROI (return on investment) So 2 or 4 legged, all moms have this 6th sense and will attend to the ones they - know - will survive. Cruel but makes practical sense.

[@itsevelynnbabez]

Crazy how there’s a snowflake acting like humans are able to help baby chicks in situations like these and dont realize that parent birds can abandon the nest. If feeding 5 human babies is too hard for you, dont complain when its a problem in the wild too

[@badonkadonc6963]

For the smallest one that have not eaten since viewing this video to me his will to survive makes it the strongest bird in the nest compared to the one's being fed in my teary eyes. It's so sad to watch.

[@notoriousnadeem]

False. Will to survive is in every being, both weak and strong.

[@ticklemyballs6949]

it breaks my heart, its like feeding nothing to a disabled child in human perspective

[@Gaka-no-Fukkatsu]

I see

[@Leafy17]

Listen. mother cuckoo's has been using this method for generations. It tricks the host mother into feeding the stronger chick rather then the weaker one. For birds, feeding a weak chick is a waste of energy.

[@casedistorted]

Yeah that’s the horrible mothers dumb instincts programmed wrong. He def had the will to survive but stupid bird had something programmed saying “one bird is smaller? DO NOT FEED.”

[@CertifiedLungCancer]

I honestly just watch this stuff for enjoyment.

[@jshsjsjdjshwjsjdhe4064]

Yes

[@momememe8293]

I just want the little one to survive

[@mmichal81]

Why?

[@donkasjokrol997]

@@mmichal81 A po co ty żyjesz?

[@mmichal81]

@@donkasjokrol997 bo mnie cokolwiek jeszcze nie zjadło

[@tevitaaho2109]

Only the strong survive

[@momememe8293]

@@mmichal81 Dont know man. Maybe because as a human being i can feel empathy. Or because i want to believe nature is beautiful and not as brutal and unfair as it really is.

[@animalsandinsects5586]

hello ... your video is very good, it's interesting, I subscribed to your channel, ❤️

[@evlynealeshire5850]

And dang, she jus’ throwed it out! Po’ thing it din’ du nufin’!!! 😢

[@darrellsaewhat50]

Nothings bad after you see an Asian Koel hatchling do a coupe to a whole family 😂

[@carriehesketh3555]

“Throwed it”?

[@oneskymalaysia]

Nice video ❤️❤️❤️👍🏼

[@WaynesAdventure]

Poor little guy is always begging for the food and mother keeps ignoring it. It can’t grow if the mother don’t feed him/her. So sad and I wish it could be saved before it die

[@marosenmd294]

Wayne, did your Mom have any kids that lived?

[@Triplebrc]

Three big birds, one slightly smaller one, and then the tiny one. I was glad whenever the second smallest one actually got fed, the tiny one only getting fed once was cruel but understandable within the rules of nature, would have been better to throw it out right away instead of letting it suffer from starvation though.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Birds are not thrown out of nests.

[@kingndanorth]

#1 law in nature is the strong survive. Culling out the nest is a way for mom to keep her species strong and alive. Mankind is capable of incredible evil but we don't live under nature's law so it's impossible for us to judge animals that do.

[@masafumioka9512]

明らかに１匹だけ未熟な雛に餌を上げないのは意図的でしょうね😔

[@katielink6906]

Omg his little mouth is so precious aww man that is just pitiful breaks my heart i would have been sneaking and feed it😭😭

[@bennieboi7114]

Leave nature alone. Natural selection. Survival of the fittest isn’t just a saying…and putting your hand in the nest is gonna get all the babies in the nest k!lled so there’s that.

[@hueyh5637]

it's common behaviour for Storks to actively kill the 3rd hatchling as they can usually only provide for 2. Get pecked to death or starve!!

[@jayhouse3149]

I grew up in the country and we raised chickens, pheasants and quail. I had no idea that songbird parents ate their babies' poop...they oughta feed it back to babies! Jr. runt should be divided and fed to it's siblings, a lot of wasted protein!

[@aliveandwell3958]

Yes sometimes they eat it, but they usually carried it out of the nest and drop it somewhere.

[@angelamyrmel236]

what the video doesn't tell you... once the small one dies of starvation, the mom will discontinue feeding the smallest of the 4 remaining and Continue feeding the other 3. Then once that one dies of starvation...so on... and so on... Remember, the chicks are growing and will need more food as they grow

[@thegioimuonloai2505]

Good video thanks 👍👍👍

[@fubartotale3389]

The available food supply will determine how many of the chicks survive. The mother will make that determination. In raptors, sometimes the older chick will push the smaller one out of the nest. This is nature, it's a mistake to put human values on it.

[@novaxo9827]

Saying too many mouths, saw a video a birdie had 11 babies all fledged ! But to be fair the dad helped out alot.. as to in real life with the success of a child sometimes

[@Cyrax4d]

Lol “Throwed”

[@SteelStringJedi]

Illiterates.

[@dromsealis4844]

I am thankful that we humans have the capability to understand and empathize with people who are different, people who society may think is incompetent or insufficient, people who may look a certain way that "most people" do not, etc. I forget sometimes what a blessing it is.

[@TheYoyo4games]

Graduated from a zoo school here. Interference to save a single runt can easily jeopardize the rest of the nest. Besides, do you think you're doing anything by being nasty to someone online because something you chose to watch upset you? LOL Try finding a hobby, it'll almost certainly be better for you.

[@dawnyandandy]

I’ve seen this on a few KZbin videos. It’s always 5 birds then the mother puts it to 4 !! Mother Nature is a strange and wonderful thing all at the same time x

[@ggaboveaveragegamer]

I want the next episode to drop already almost as bad as I want venom 2 to drop

[@casedistorted]

Venom 2 ended up being horrifically terrible. One of the worst films I've ever seen.

[@RSTBKT]

Casual geographic taught me that birds are demons.

[@BirdPlusAnimals]

Beautiful bird

[@OssxJah]

So for those that wants to be a bird to able to fly. These are the trials and tribulations they have to go through. In a confine space, surrounded by siblings, too weak to move and blind. Just open your mouth and pray there's food dropping in.

[@JOYSTICKGAMES101]

at 5 21 its hard to tell what the mother did with that small baby not sure if she did in fact feed him or she was checking if he had anything in its mouth

[@msbadkittie]

i can’t believe the tiny one is still alive. bless his heart. he finds the strength every day to keep crying for food. i guess he’s getting the bare minimum? enough to barely keep him alive. saying a prayer for him tonight 🙏🏻

[@abcdefg-gx3ng]

どの世界もどの生き物も子育ては大変だね・・・

[@agusti_zainal0445]

One baby very small 😭😭

[@yetti3010]

The sad reality is, she's likely unable to provide an adequate amount of food for all of her chicks. She knows the currant food availability will not be enough for all of her offspring. Feeding all the chicks equally will only assure they are all equally starving. The weakest chick is unlikely to survive, and there is a good chance many of the heather chicks wont either. In that calculation, any food given to the weakest chick is a waste. Life is brutal, there is no help or support system beyond what she herself can do within her limitations. Some of her chicks will die, so she has to allocate all her resources to the ones with the best chance of survival.

[@hueyang5943]

Hahaha the little one ain't getting shit 🤣

[@saleplazma5109]

you need medical doctor. you are obviously very sick person

[@omartahboub2900]

Were you able to rescue the immature baby ? While the goal is to have the nature to take its course, I feel this is too inhumane to let the baby starve to death while filming the whole thing.

[@chriswojtowicz951]

Birds in Nest promised birds in nest, and that’s exactly what we got!

[@danmccarthy8822]

I only saw her feed the little guy once, he sure was putting in the effort she just wouldn’t give him any. I’m sure eventually they just ate him.

[@casedistorted]

Really depressing because his will to survive was huge, the mother was just terrible and didn't give a sh considering the others were fine.

[@sadrabbit53]

Baby birds grow so fast... if they're getting fed, anyway

[@melindaatkinson3585]

That moment 2:40 where runt actually gets feed (ahhhh, finally). And 0:03 when mom finds some left overs and runt is like, “feed it to me!” And mom is like, “mmm, nah! I’ll just eat it myself.”

[@littlebanshee]

I did not see the runt (smallest) one get any food at that timestamp, it was completely under them all around that time (look at the beak sizes they are all the bigger ones). I watched it on slower speed and looked a bit ahead and after your time stamp. Maybe your talking about a different one but so far I have only seen little one get food at 5:21.

[@erismana2105]

Hope a cat got her

[@user-py8xw5bk1s]

Momma bird is like the roadrunner

[@hitoshishinsou6308]

To be honest that’s better than what storks do you THERES lol

[@vonniesemail6006]

True

[@TheLoneGamr]

Had a robins nest in a bush have the same thing 2 healthy big babies and one little runt. Little guy hung on but eventually died. Those poor little squeaks.

[@RavanDashanan-cr2fl]

Thank God that, title & description is fake , otherwise little one could be die.

[@anthonygranado60]

Not entirely sure how accurate this is (haven't had time to read too much into it), but supposedly these birds sometimes raise multiple broods simultaneously. If that's true, the little guy might end up being okay when the bigger ones start leaving the nest. I read somewhere around 21 days in. But again, don't take my word for it

[@shawnanderson466]

Wow...he's got to starve for 21 days...Good luck to the runt...

[@hermanforbid2514]

Nice 👍

[@alekseyfedorov7320]

"В большой семье клювом не щёлкают" -- русская пословица

[@AprilCurtsinger-ue7zq]

5 newborn babies. I bet she's very very tired and exhausted.

[@dmonkeylife8012]

Something about the baby birds and parenting process. They're hungry, nasty little things. Gobble gobble poop gobble lol

[@NoodlyPanda]

Anyone else listening to death metal while watching baby birds eat or is that just me?

[@chiquita683]

Our society could learn from this

[@user-nn7tt5sq5u]

Estos videos me deprimen ver al pollito morir de hambre !!!😢😢😢😢

[@user-nn7tt5sq5u]

Ami tambien detodas las aves son los mas vulnerables porque son muchos que alimentar y estan mas expuestos a los depredadoresval dejarlos solos para llevarles comida !!😊

[@Derjuante]

is it me or at 2:49 the mom ate the mom but bro really you should treat for the poor thing. dont watch it die bro, people be letting nature die for views😑

[@deechiefz]

The only time the mother fed him and it was luck. 5:18 I think it's because the other babies are much more noticeable and the mother only feeds the ones she can see first, the little ones must be very lucky to be fed.

[@proudMudbl00D_6]

I can't watch the negligence of the one chick. 🥺 But I get it. Survival of the fittest. 😮‍💨

[@birdsbaby-wy9vo]

very good viedo

[@alexwasp2502]

6:03 - очень показательный момент, который подтверждает, что мать именно НЕ ХОЧЕТ кормить самого мелкого. Честное слово, лучше бы она его заклевала или просто из гнезда выкинула, он бы хоть не мучался.

[@joanajoana7347]

Revoltante...

[@Tristam_]

Так природа, выживают здоровые, больные отбраковываются. Люди тоже не лучше, со своим гуманизмом пытаются спасти всех, не думаю, что у этого искалеченного маленького ребёнка жизнь будет отвратительной и помирать он будет ещё мучительнее, когда станет взрослым.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

​​@@Tristam_ This chick was last hatched not sick, an insurance chick, in case of another chick not making it. The most aggressive chick(s) get the most food.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Pecked to death is not suffering?

[@codypann_bruh]

my dad let a bird out and flew away 2 days ago and hasn't been a month it stayed with us

[@ingoknito6260]

Can somebody please call the youth welfare Office? Thanks

[@hazelstreet1654]

Haha! That's so sad just seeing how small it it compared to the others

[@mrDingleberry44]

I'm cheering on that little runt. He got some bites, but siblings are so much bigger. That little mouth needs more grub!

[@jpr2204]

de moedervogel lijkt te kijken wie het eerst aan de beurt is. Kennelijk is het pesten ook in de dierenwereld gewoon.

[@susanrussell6435]

The survival of the fittest right enough...that's nature for you,

[@markohabjanic7212]

That's how it's supposed to be.. How do you think they survived all those years..

[@spaceace1006]

"throwed" is not a word!

[@Macdelcley]

At 5:20, the mother does feed the smallest chick.

[@kathleenevans1201]

These are chicks, not babies. Nature can be cruel sometimes. It's best not to meddle.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

You should note that both parents are feeding the chicks. All the chicks were the same size when hatched, maybe 1 was late, maybe 3 to 5 days late, as parents feeding all the chicks and not brooding the last one would put it at a disadvantage in height and weight. It's a truism that the most aggressive chicks get the most food. Always. So being smaller would put it at a disadvantage, shorter, not able to reach up as far as the others. As you can see, it's every bird for himself. By the time the parents feed all the other chicks, they're off to the races for more food. If you might think it's weaker, or a runt, it's because it's not being fed. That is the reason it is smaller. It's not being fed. You'll see similar, but more brutal situations in raptor nests. Eventually they give up, turn away from the others or go to another part of the nest. The only time they get fed is when the other chicks are full, although, as it gets to be a competition, they tend to gorge themselves, with crops looking like they're going to explode. Some keep falling over because they've become roly-polys. The last chick seems to be an 'insurance policy' in case of a loss of one of the other chicks. Note the behavior of some of the peregrine feeds. They give the parent the 'bums rush' like they're attacking them and peck the parent while they're still picking off bits for them. In one nest, the smallest chick ran up and took a mouse and kept it for itself. It did that 3x and had a stockpile of 3 mice that went untouched because it wasn't strong enough to tear the prey apart. In the end, it's the chicks, through their demands that really decide who gets fed.

[@moniqcl]

When the birds can't raise...the sacrifice one or 2....Just the strong birds survive.Natural law

[@0minous187]

it got fed once lol. the others weren't interested so it was like ugh fine you can have this lil thing w.e dont say i never gave ya anything

[@GazAce]

Hands up who waited for the throwing bit? 🤔

[@TimSimmons653]

Bruh. Wasted my time

[@clark5486]

Crazy how you can see inside the little ones mouth and how it's slowly dying its changing colora