It is easy to assume and sympathize that these birds are feeding and communicating in a social setting. Hummingbirds are typically found feeding alone and aggressively guarding their nectar feeders. Therefore, a video of hummingbirds ‘speaking’ to each other is a novel experience and the first of its kind. BirdMindReader on Reddit filmed the event and several people were stumped as they engaged in conversation typing several interpretations of the event. Luckily, BirdMindReader enabled viewers to hear the tweets and chirps while the birds communicated to one another. These birds had their mouths moving as if they were feeding and she stumped viewers as they clapped their wings believing they were to construct a nest while other viewers were focused on the birds to finish an urgent queen feeding command to make the hand a nesting site instead of keeping it a feeding perch.\ Reddit Hummingbirds community
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Why This Interaction Is So Special
Most people do not get to see these birds this close. Bird feeders are lucky to get one visit per day from the shy birds. Hummingbird feeders are equipped with waiting booths to increase visits, and quite the contraption to trap and stimulate hummingbird wing beats. With the exception of two containers, most likely filled with an iridescent nectar, each container’s entrance is gated with a reservoir to store nectar behind an elastic and mesh opposition to the forces of gravity. It is likely that these chirps are the first to be heard in years with visitors and they likely are used to affectionate volumes together with hundreds of thousands of wing beats and recorded blunt social wing beats. Despite the instant impulse to ascribe social meaning to the abundance of wing beats in hummingbirds, this is a great video for the personality of the birds. Just because the moment was special for the people hummingbirds do have their own personal social interactions.
