@@izlannn there must be a shortage of food for them to be doing this. They are likely their fledglings from a previous brood.

kim davBG what’s wrong with that? Lol

Hey don’t talk about me like that!

@@inspiradorupees3029 Hello uncle

This is 21st century

The government watches *every* citizen

It wasn’t really an attack just one who came and began pecking at the chicks

Click bait

@@v3ryculturedman140 you mean "chicks" bait. (Get it?) 😆

Worst video ever

its not a twig, if you look closely its a dragon fly. I mean birds are stupid but not THAT stupid.

@@eliu8 not all birds, they can actually be quite intelligent

They seem very preoccupied with feeding the young. In the first instance, they jump on the young to protect them.

The young male is likely related, one of last year's offspring or a second 'mate' to the female, one who didn't father the eggs but won over the female's affections enough to get close on a regular basis. - theory-

There is something wrong with birds they seem to be dumb

Clay Chester Clearly you’ve never had a bird

I would say that it is either a fledgling from a previous brood or perhaps a release from a rehabber

Me too. Just why...

Perhaps offspring from a previous brood

Not much to be honest. I don't know why there was a warning at the start.

Yea

The younger birds are in the process of trying to kill the hatchlings.

JulieOntology probably not really trying

ThePainCadet no, all six nestlings successfully fledged (left the nest) and then returned there to sleep for a week or so. After that they began the long migration down to Brazil.

good

The last adult in the nest. Really you wouldn't see that???😟

Yeah purple Martins are the largest swallow in North America. They were going extinct because of European Starlings being introduced so lots of people started making artificial houses for them out of gourds like the native Americans used to do. The natives did it to encourage them to nest around their camps because they are a natural type of insect control.

Adilah O, thank you immensely for that info. I've seen several of such artificial nests, which I'd never really thought anything of; but now I know better. Aww, I love swallows!! Very beautiful and precious birds.

Around some of the lakes in Iowa people put up purple martin houses. They look like a bird hotel. We always had one. Helps them and us by keeping bugs away.

The young male is likely related, one of last year's offspring

One of them had some scratches, but they all seem fine today, you can check them out on their live stream.

They seem to be ok for now.

Purple Martin Conservation for now?!?!?!?!

Now that makes more sense than the title. Good Job!

Don't anthropomorphize birds. Trust the title of the video. PMCA has experts who have been observing Martin behavior for decades. This is competitive bird behavior, which is sometimes violent. Male Martins do a lot of atrocious things, including raping and even gang raping, sometimes injuring and killing females. They have the drive to mate, sometimes at any cost, even if sometimes that is counterproductive and a female dies. Not all males are like this, but some are. I'm not an ornithologist, but I believe it's extremely unlikely that this is an instance of a bird having parent issues. It's just the brutal part of nature. And it's not just the males in a species. Female horses will kill another mare's foal to give their own foals a better chance to survive. Nature can be violent. We think of it as lovely, but it's not always so. It's sometimes a vicious and battle for survival. It's fascinating to observe our Martins, and we adore them! But sometimes there are some horrible things they do to each other which we might not be aware of.

I believe that both PMCA and Adilah O are simply interpreting the video from two different perspectives. The beginning title cards were the best scientific theory from a biological survival point of view to explain this behavior. Adilah O is contemplating possible motivation for the birds behavior. Science doesn't normally deal with topics of motivation due to it being subjective. What Adilah O said won't be acceptable in a scientific journal or educational material. But in a KZfaq comment, I believe is fine.

@@julieontology7214 Sure, but this behavior was decidedly not aggressive. Chances are just as likely that it's a young bird just hoping to steal food.

No.

I was distressed by how little happened, hoped he would slay one or two of those little squeaky weasels :(

Are you on dope?

Yes, they a part of the swallow family

Да это по ходу их же птенец, только с предыдущего выводка. Он таким же был пару месяцев назад. Ещё помнит, где его дом.

Matt D What if you were one of those chicks & felt the pain of those bites from it, it wants them dead to bring the female bk on heat again, as with male Lions, that certain birds did this I didn't know, Might be some new info on how certain preditory dinosaurs might have been to youngsters that lived in familly groups as we know now with some ie giant T.rex & the small Troodon, both the smartest dinosaurs for their size!🌳🐊

There wasnt blood

@@snirmor6194 obviously u missed the joke but God bless.