These Birds’ Nests Are Terrible for a Reason

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Some birds' nests are works of art. These are not those. But we'll see why the terrible nesting habits of the cuckoo or jacana or even pigeons are the right thing for their survival.
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@dickygushy 7 күн бұрын

"man, I can't believe these bird nests" -Me, who hasn't made my bed for over a decade

@xitheris1758 7 күн бұрын

But you have a bed.

@dickygushy 7 күн бұрын

@@xitheris1758 I didn't build it

@wondertownfunk6858 7 күн бұрын

@@xitheris1758 What they meant is that they sleeps on the IKEA flatpak. The bed really isn't built yet.

@b.sylphaen 7 күн бұрын

Who are you and why are you attacking me

@raeperonneau4941 7 күн бұрын

😂

@TopLob 7 күн бұрын

Imo, using bird spikes seems like the smartest nest. They recognized that the spikes are a deterrent for other birds, and they also had the brains to detach and use them. Some birds build nests out of thorns, and I figure this is a creative version of that.

@alteria2714 7 күн бұрын

And it deters other predators as well, imagine being a mouse trying to get eggs and climbing through that! Definitely smart

@ozhmium 7 күн бұрын

Magpies are incredibly smart. I am friends with them and the crows in the neighborhood, and they have to outwit and outsmart the crows because the magpies are generally smaller and weaker. And outsmarting crows is not easy, even for us.

@Lily-cx1vo 7 күн бұрын

@@ozhmiumcrows creep me out. I lived in a forested area for a time that seemed to have waaaay too many. Dozens would sit there and watch me walk down the street, heads turning as I passed, just staring. Don’t mess with birds lol

@MichaelOKC 7 күн бұрын

Speaking of Crows... I have a hard time telling Crows from Ravens... I never used to even think about it, but I recently moved into a new house and I Know that I have both! .. well maybe!?! Lol. I don't have many of either because I also have a hawk of some type nesting in a tree in the back part of my property!.. the funny thing is that there's a squirrel who nests in my pecan tree! He/She... is Fearless!! Not only outwitting the Hawk.. but has managed to make my pitbull terrified of it! Lol! I've seen the squirrel tease my dog until she wants to chase the squirrel and then charge my pitbull making her flee to me for protection!! 😂

@Dragoniiia 7 күн бұрын

@@MichaelOKC ravens are way wayyyy bigger than crows.

@OhMyGoshItsALeg 7 күн бұрын

Savannah wearing a 'Trying My Best' sweater in solidarity with the pigeons

@davidfoss4808 7 күн бұрын

Haha, exactly what I was thinking as well

@mamabanana88 7 күн бұрын

Eyyy, a Jarvis shirt!

@evilgingerminiatures5820 6 күн бұрын

Love the sweater

@mwater_moon2865 6 күн бұрын

Pigeons are morning doves, which it was pointed out that flimsy nests are safer for them. Though I was just reading about how pigeons will keep using the same nesting spot year after year and they purposely don't clean it so the babies poop ends up making a mud that helps hold it together. Basically pigeons seem bad off because we've changed their environment for them for so long. They've been domesticated for longer than horses.

@screwthisin 4 күн бұрын

I thought the same thing.

@outistynnanyt5153 7 күн бұрын

I once saw a pigeon "nest" on top of an I-beam, with an egg nestled into the the anti bird spikes underneath. I thought it had just rolled off the post, until a pigeon landed on the beam, sitting with its butt directly above the egg. It seems like the egg was literally laid _into_ the spikes

@ferretyluv 7 күн бұрын

I mean, that’s just smart.

@supagirl277 6 күн бұрын

Bro, I saw a pigeon lay eggs on an I-beam that was part of this water park slides’ stairways. It was above the inner tube station… and it had attempted to place 2 sticks there while it simultaneously accidentally knocked each of the eggs off into the inter tube storage, to our horror. The inner tubes didn’t save them

@abigailbaldwin4224 6 күн бұрын

I once had to move a mourning dove "nest" that was three eggs, four sticks, and the mom sitting on the windshield of a truck

@RobertJarecki 11 сағат бұрын

At work, we had a pigeon couple build a nest on a wood beam that protruded from a wall. The nest was round and seemed well built but only about 2/3 of it was supported by the beam. When the couple started their nest, we told the couple that they had chosen a poor location. They didn't listen. One morning, the broken eggs and nest were on the concrete patio floor underneath the beam. The couple were rebuilding their nest. We called the maintenance department who came out and added a sharply angled wood trim to the top of the beam. Neither the couple nor their nesting materials could stay up there. The maintenance department also added a small rimmed platform at a corner of the building. The couple built their new nest on the platform and didn't seem to mind that we would watch them while we ate lunch on the patio.

@Alias_Anybody 7 күн бұрын

Those Magpies are metal. Literally. Forget the stories about them stealing jewelry, those birds are FORTIFIED.

@mfaizsyahmi 7 күн бұрын

We inadvertently thrust them into the Iron Age.

@icarusbinns3156 6 күн бұрын

Remembering Tikka… when our cat tried ‘hunting’ him, she got a tail feather. Tikka whipped around, clapped his wings around her head, and sat on the couch, screeching at her. She is now terrified of magpies, crows, and ravens. But she still wants to hunt a goose!

@evilgingerminiatures5820 6 күн бұрын

@@icarusbinns3156 Corvids are terrors & I know a cat who was forced to become an indoor cat because after one failed attempt to hunt one the local magpies decided they where target no one and every time the cat left the house they mobbed him until he fled back in doors until the cat just gave up & stayed stayed in the house.

@einienj3281 6 күн бұрын

And the level of sass to make an anti-bird nest, perfect petty revenge. Like: "look here, Stoopid! This is what I think about you and your Stoopid deterrents! Hahahaha!" 😄

@oliviervancantfort5327 6 күн бұрын

Magpies are very clever and very adaptable. In some areas in Belgium, they used to have an evil reputation and they (and their nests) were traditionally hunted down. They adapted by nesting in the bushes on the dividing strips of highways, a place that is probably also great for avoiding other mammals predators.

@rickseiden1 7 күн бұрын

Those Magpies are making The Iron Nest using the weapons of their defeated foes.

@MissingRaptor 6 күн бұрын

Perfect phrasing 😂😂😂

@Nico-od4yv 6 күн бұрын

I am magpie of Dragonston, The Unspiked, Queen of the Corvids ,the Belgians and the First Birds, Bird of the three Regions, Protektor of the n'est, Breaker of Anti bird Spikes, mother of Birds!

@rickseiden1 6 күн бұрын

@@Nico-od4yv OH! MY! GOD! This is AWESOME!

@alveolate 6 күн бұрын

these Iron nests are literally Houses of the Dragons... bird being dinosaurs and all that

@MontgomeryWenis 7 күн бұрын

As soon as you mentioned spitefulness, I knew it would be a corvid. 😂

@ozhmium 7 күн бұрын

i feel like out of all the corvids, magpies are the most spiteful. they will have spats against a specific crow couple that have annoyed them one time too often

@MontgomeryWenis 6 күн бұрын

@@ozhmium As much sense as that makes, I have to disagree. I think it's crows who are the most spiteful. There was a zoo in Traverse City, Michigan, that had Michigan native animals. But one of the two crows seemed to have a thing for mocking people and laughing as they passed. It remembered my family's faces from our yearly visits and talked to us like old friends, but hated a lot of others. Really funny stuff. Imagine being insulted by a mouthy bird. 😂

@ozhmium 5 күн бұрын

@@MontgomeryWenis I think it might be a personality thing. I've managed to identify a couple crows as individuals with their own personalities and once I could do that, their differing personalities were clear. I have to assume that magpies have their own personalities as well. Perhaps my crows are less spiteful or the crows at your zoo are more spiteful!

@ericepperson8409 4 күн бұрын

We have a lot of Magpies around in Colorado. Not too long ago I found out that a gathering of them is called a Parliament. Makes a lot of sense considering they always seem to be dressed nicely and arguing with each other near constantly.

@killerpussy84 Күн бұрын

@@ericepperson8409 Knowing this, I wonder what it says about us that we call a bunch of crows a murder...

@thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615 7 күн бұрын

I made the stupid dove nest subreddit and am so glad at the butterfly effect it’s had on the internet talking about how some birds are just really pitiful when it comes to nest building 😂

@t.a6159 7 күн бұрын

If you truly made the r/stupiddovenests you have our undying gratitude 😂😂😂

@SeansAnimalWorld 6 күн бұрын

Added note on the cowbirds to keep people from lumping unnecessary hate towards them: they can't build their own nests because historically they were nomadic and followed bison herds and other large mammals pre-colonization. They didn't have time or consistent locations to return to when following these herds that allowed them the months to build a nest, and raise chicks to fledgling and flying age. So hedging your bets with whatever cup-nesting birds around when the herds were there made total sense. But once bison were eradicated, fences put up, and sedentary cattle introduced, they stopped needing to be nomadic VERY quickly which meant that the adaptations for that nomad lifestyle weren't (and aren't) able to change. What would've been random locations and nests being hit by the cowbird nests, turned into every year being hit over and over since the cowbirds weren't moving around as much if at all. Colonists created the "villain" of the beautiful and melodic cowbirds.

@stillhere1425 6 күн бұрын

I don’t mind the fostering out of their eggs, but if they, like cuckoos, hatch and murder their nest-mates, that is untoward. Nature, but untoward.

@SeansAnimalWorld 6 күн бұрын

@@stillhere1425 they don't normally push host eggs out, but just out-compete host chicks. They normally hatch earlier and beg more than the host's biological children. So really successful parents can wind up raising a mix of babies, but normally will feed the cowbird chick more

@einienj3281 7 күн бұрын

Pigeons are a bit confused, but they got the spirit.. 😂

@HercadosP 7 күн бұрын

Do they?

@Lady_Crispr 7 күн бұрын

I love to watch the little pigeons around the city. They seem so oblivious to any danger they are in but always seem to make it somehow. There is one with a missing foot at my son's bus stop that is super fun to watch. He never let's his missing foot stop him for a second!

@0_1_2 7 күн бұрын

Actually, if you think about that species in terms of biological fitness. They are absolutely crushing it. Survival of the fittest and most reproductively successful.

@evereq8970 7 күн бұрын

Some jokes are better not to But I'm not sure if it's one of them... But better be careful

@evereq8970 7 күн бұрын

@@HercadosPman

@aurorafauna4195 7 күн бұрын

There's a hilarious video of a seagull who put her nest ON the tracks of a rollercoaster. The employee of the park called her a bad mom

@jeffreyschweitzer8289 7 күн бұрын

Building nests out of meteorites was all the rage back in the Cretaceous, but it seems like something must have happened that suddenly made that material a lot less popular

@stillhere1425 6 күн бұрын

🤔

@stephanieparker1250 7 күн бұрын

Not sure why you didn’t show any of the poor nests built by doves? There are hundreds of hilariously built dove nest photos on the web.

@adamgreenspan4988 7 күн бұрын

@nemonomen3340 7 күн бұрын

@nemonomen3340 0 seconds ago Because, unlike these examples, pidgeons really are just incompetent best builders.

@ellieban 7 күн бұрын

They’re probably expensive to use legally.

@eliotklus8323 7 күн бұрын

@@W333L There’s no need to be rude when someone offers a theory.

@LustStarrr 7 күн бұрын

Agreed - there's an entire r/stupiddovenests subreddit!

@debbiej.2168 7 күн бұрын

I've wondered why mourning doves had the most pathetic nests I've ever seen- about five pine needles. But they are terrific parents.

@AnthonyMorris-pg9xj 5 күн бұрын

The coolest nest that I ever saw belonged to a pair of mourning doves. They commandeered a hanging planter. They were practically invisible among the leaves and flowers.

@alexacarrillo4339 5 күн бұрын

My mom has some that put three sticks down on the railing of her patio(under a bush so they are covered)and then lay their eggs. It is such a pathetic nest I almost cleaned it off the railing before my mom stopped me.

@user-oj2mu4hn1e 5 күн бұрын

I had one last spring who put 3 small twigs in a triangle on the edges of one of my flower pots, that still had dirt from the year before so was heavy and on the north side under a porch roof, and raised 3 lovely doves. Great location, great foundation, great rain coverage. She had it all.

@durgeshpatel8389 7 күн бұрын

We have a pigeon couple in our area. They build their nest every breeding season at the same spot in our house and each and every time their egg had fallen from it like they have never succeeded in having an offspring 0 success rate .😮

@ThermalDragon 7 күн бұрын

A neat thing you could do is actually set up a nest for them, maybe some tupperware or a small basket? At least so you dont need to clean up the egg splatter. 🤷‍♂️

@conlon4332 7 күн бұрын

@@ThermalDragon Except then you're asking for another generation of poor nest builders.

@TheKrispyfort 7 күн бұрын

Maybe they want to be child-free

@sleep3417 7 күн бұрын

If they can't do it, they shouldn't reproduce.

@johnbaker1256 6 күн бұрын

@@conlon4332 evolution at work

@Deletedcommentfactory 7 күн бұрын

I was doing some work on the underside of a bridge, and found a pigeon “nest” which was just a pile of poop with an egg plopped on top of it.

@nathandale3415 6 күн бұрын

Underneath piers, I've seen old bowl-shaped nests formed from poop. A generational effort perhaps.

@stillhere1425 6 күн бұрын

That actually sounds stable but she couldn’t have turned it when required so probably she was a youngster surprised by an egg that she pushed out on the heels of a b.m.

@tortex1 6 күн бұрын

Human: That'll stop those pesky birds from landing here. Magpie: Oh, the nest stabilizers have been restocked! Hopefully these are decent, the last selection was truly dreadful.

@Stue-e 6 күн бұрын

I recall watching a series of videos of a purpose built bird nest cam, the nest was occupied by a family of owls, but as the chicks were fledging, a common Pidgeon kept arriving at the nest. the Pidgeon would show up in a fluster, land in front of these 5-6 owl chicks who were at least 3x bigger than this adult Pidgeon and try to build a "nest" directly in front of the owls. the nest was 4 sticks and a wad of thin cotton thrown on the ground, with 2-3 eggs. the owl parents would return to their chicks in confusion and sweep the pigeons eggs off the edge of the nest. this repeats several times until the chicks all eventually left the nest. the Pidgeon lost its whole clutch of eggs at least 7-8 times in the same exact spot to the exact same pair of adult owls. but the show kept going because although the Pidgeon's life works seemed hopeless and in vain, the Pidgeon did eventually secure the whole nest for itself, and was able to raise its chicks after being so persistent. I guess its their strategy, not so much quality of upbringing, but persistence. a bit like how seagulls are very successful birds, because they are persistent and sometimes ballsy, they reap the reward of being somewhat oblivious to danger, compared to being skittish and cautious

@orthoplex64 7 күн бұрын

"What are those spikes for?" "Birds" Birds: "I agree"

@hullbowyer 7 күн бұрын

We once had a wood pigeon make it's nest which was three twigs on top of a 6ft gate, postman opened the gate and got covered in egg

@WhoThisMonkey 6 күн бұрын

I cut back a load of brambles behind my house last year, piled it all up and corded into bundles to keep it together. There was a small pile of smaller cuttings that I left on a stone table. Roll forward a few days, I noticed the smaller cuttings had mostly disappeared. They couldn't have blown anyway because it was a tidy area enclosed area. You probably guessed it, the magpies had added them to their nest in the trees north west of my house. I can clearly see their nest when the leaves fall off the tree, and you can clearly see its layered in dead bramble sticks. 😅

@redbloodedbutterfly 7 күн бұрын

Train stations where I live often use anti-bird spikes, even though it seems to be a favorite nesting site for rock doves. The rock doves use trash, especially plastic bags, to keep from being hurt by the spikes. Also amusing are the plastic statues of horned owls. Rock doves will chill next to the statues.

@lyndsaybrown8471 7 күн бұрын

Rock doves: too dumb to be outsmarted.

@gargoyle7863 7 күн бұрын

@@lyndsaybrown8471 Until a real owl arrives. Than the sitting next to owl "statues" backfires.

@TornaitSuperBird 7 күн бұрын

@@gargoyle7863Pigeons aren't dumb, they're fearless. City pigeons are the descendants of domesticated ancestors. Fear was quite literally bred out of them.

@johnbaker1256 6 күн бұрын

Local pigeon perches on the head of a plastic crow placed there to scare it away.

@satunbreeze 7 күн бұрын

Jacanas are definitely made for the swamp. They even have a mullet to match

@Confucius_Says... 6 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@saffronevans3665 6 күн бұрын

Pigeons broke into our flat (well, we left the window open) and started building a nest. We prevented further construction after 1 night's work, but funnily enough that night's work consisted of a few twigs, 3 sticks, a couple scraps of moss, and an anti-pigeon spike.

@CarthagoMike 7 күн бұрын

Interesting how even the most terrible nests have evolutionary benefits.

@kathleenwoods8416 7 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's the funny thing about natural selection. What works works, so it doesn't quite matter what it looks like.

@tiffanymarie9750 6 күн бұрын

And it only has to be just good enough 😅

@lauragarnham77 7 күн бұрын

In the house I lived as a teenager, a pair of collared doves would come every Spring and try to build a nest on my window sill - the problem was it was way too narrow. One would knock off whatever their partner had placed when they landed and I am pretty sure any eggs would have rolled to their doom instantly. So I always had to scare them off so they would eventually give up and go elsewhere.

@michaelheliotis5279 7 күн бұрын

Okay but what about the kererū (NZ wood pigeon). They just pile a few sticks together and call it a day, then shrug their shoulders when the nest promptly blows apart and sends their one egg hurtling to the ground. Apparently the don't even successfully lay the egg into the nest every time, sometimes it just comes flying out and hurtles right over the side. I'm seriously struggling to see the hidden strategy here.

@heer_Jefferson 7 күн бұрын

as a Belgian i can confirm they in fact do build their nests out of anti bird spikes

@Oscar97o 3 күн бұрын

Where have you seen that? I've never seen this kind of nest in Brussels.

@heer_Jefferson 2 күн бұрын

@@Oscar97o if i remember correctly it was somewhere around Chimay

@KoneSkirata 7 күн бұрын

Brown-headed Cowbirds heard the phrase "don't put all your eggs in the same basket" and they freaking RUN WITH IT now.

@shingshongshamalama 7 күн бұрын

You know, it's really hard to take ornithologists seriously when they name things "Grey-Throated Tit-Flycatcher."

@Mega_Croissantamence 7 күн бұрын

Google the Andean Cock-of-the-rock

@JefferyMewtamer 6 күн бұрын

Considering things like the peacock, woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse and Blue-footed Booby, I have to wonder which came first: The common names for these and other species of bird with dirty sounding names or the slang terms for various body parts the prudish don't like people talking about... My guess is the common names for such birds and by the time the slang terms became so widespread to no longer count as euphemism, it was too late to rewrite all the textbooks on birds to give them names that won't get snickers in a highschool biology class.

@riloretro7821 7 күн бұрын

I live in a part of the US where we have more mourning doves than pigeons and they're doing their best to stay alive that's for sure.

@aftersexhighfives 7 күн бұрын

Wait. Are they morning doves because they coo at the sun or are they mourning doves because funerals?? I've never seen it written before and never thought about it.... the doves where I grow up are LOUD in the morning😂

@nrrneeCat 7 күн бұрын

Same. There's a pair in the tree by my driveway, and I know exactly when they lay eggs because they end up smashed on the roof of my car.

@olly9404 6 күн бұрын

@@nrrneeCatwhat if it’s a form of abortion because like they said, they feel unsafe from the predators…maybe waiting till they’re ready to have a baby? That’s somethin to think about

@magentamonster 6 күн бұрын

You can't have more mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) than pigeons (Columbidae), that's impossible because mourning doves are pigeons. "Pigeon" and "dove" are two words for the same thing, columbids. More mourning doves than common pigeons (Columba livia) sure. For serious, limiting "pigeon" only to species with "pigeon" in their English names, and "dove" to species with "dove" in their English names is absurd and makes both groups pointlessly polyphyletic. It's especially absurd because some species have both names with "pigeon" and names with "dove", for example the common pigeon is also known as the rock dove, and some have names with neither, like the dodo. Streptopelia ("doves"), Spilopelia ("doves"), Nesoenas ("pigeons" or "doves") and Columba ("pigeons" or "doves") form a clade. This video talks about the croaking ground dove (Columbina cruziana) and mourning dove. Neither species belongs to this clade. No matter what species in the clade consisting of Streptopelia, Spilopelia, Nesoenas and Columba are called, they are all closer to each other than to any pigeons outside of that clade. So European turtle-doves (Streptopelia turtur) are closer to common pigeons than to mourning doves, and common pigeons are closer to European turtle-doves than to crested pigeons (Ocyphaps lophotes).

@christajennings3828 6 күн бұрын

In my area, mourning doves can successfully raise up to six batches of babies every year. By October, we're up to our eyeballs in doves. Then the migratory predatory birds go through on their way south, and the dove population is back to reasonable.

@chewycooking9013 7 күн бұрын

They're trying their best man

@julioulloa5403 7 күн бұрын

Hahahahabahaha. I felt that❤

@brandonbeckius3799 7 күн бұрын

2nd time with Jarvis merch, they’re doing better than their best.

@dafttool 7 күн бұрын

Carolina wrens should be on the list for bad nests. They’re well made, but placed in atrocious spots, like on your lawnmower in your garage

@andrewwebb917 7 күн бұрын

Robins are the same. Every year, they nest in my parents shed. Every year, they get scared away before the babies are fully grown. Every year, my parents bury Robin chicks.

@fredericapanon207 7 күн бұрын

@@andrewwebb917 awww 😢

@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-db2ff 7 күн бұрын

second image on google is in a pair of sneakers, seems about right

@Owlettehoo 6 күн бұрын

We had a security system installed a few weeks ago and the guy was telling us about a Carolina Wren that would nest in the chair on his porch every year. It would get scared and fly away any time someone would leave or come home. Until one day this year he was leaving and saw a snake slithering away from the chair with two lumps in it's stomach. 💀

@stillhere1425 6 күн бұрын

I dunno. Maybe they figured you won’t mow for 2 months?

@pheart2381 6 күн бұрын

The pigeons on my balcony seemed to consider 3 twigs and a poop adequate nesting material.

@cookie856 6 күн бұрын

As long as eggs don't roll out, pigeons are happy

@raerohan4241 6 күн бұрын

@@cookie856 Even if the eggs roll out, pigeons are still happy. You'll see couples with a 0% hatch rate because of all them falling from the nest, and they'll _still_ choose to stay there for future broods 😭

@frostblade42 7 күн бұрын

I like the themes of some of the recent videos. 'You think this thing in nature is crap? Wrong! And here's why!"

@misteryman526 7 күн бұрын

The mourning doves really just seem very stupid. We have them here in Tucson and every year I have them trying to build nests on the top of my windows and doorways. Except that the space they try to 'build' on is only about a half inch wide shelf, so they fly up there with a stick, drop it, and the stick falls off onto the ground. Then they fly off to find a new stick. I end up with big piles of sticks on the ground and maybe one or two sticks on the impossibly small shelf. And they never attempt to reuse the sticks that fall on the ground either, because I guess it's the sticks' fault that they didn't work for a nest.

@jean-pierredeclemy7032 7 күн бұрын

The pigeons in our garden build very random nests but I can understand why because the youngsters always trash the place before flying off.

@user-bm7uu5mm5n 6 күн бұрын

So like our kids 😂

@Debbie-henri 6 күн бұрын

Wood Pigeon chicks have just done the same to the nest they had. To be fair to the parents, they didn't do a bad job of nest building, but by the time the chicks were about to leave, it was skewed right over, falling apart and a disgusting mess of droppings.

@richdobbs6595 6 күн бұрын

If I didn't move my car for a weekend, mourning doves would build nests in my windshield. Typically, I would just throw away the collection of twigs. But when I didn't do this soon enough, I found little eggs on my car. It is interesting how folks react when I tell them I used the eggs the next time I scrambled eggs. Eating chicken eggs - ok. Eating other kinds of eggs that can't possibly survive to create baby birds most of which don't survive - apparently violates an American taboo.

@richdobbs6595 6 күн бұрын

To clarify, this happened 1 year out of living at that place over ten years. Most years, the mourning doves built nest in a tree, not on my car.

@yeeisme 7 күн бұрын

My balcony has been raining pigeon eggs recently. After we've cleaned up their minimum effort nests they will just lay their eggs directly on the bare metal, then the poor things roll around and then off the edge... *splat*

@N3ur0m4nc3r 7 күн бұрын

Sooo don't clean up the nests till after they lay the eggs?

@l01230123 7 күн бұрын

Wow, people really hate pigeons...

@spoookley 7 күн бұрын

it sounds like *someone* needs to reconstruct a nest

@badgoogle9938 7 күн бұрын

you should hold a frying pan out, then you almost got breakfast.

@raccoontrashpanda1467 7 күн бұрын

If you know removing the nests will cause the pigeons to lay eggs that roll away and break why don't you leave them alone for the breeding season?

@WhiskeyDip 7 күн бұрын

r/stupiddovenests

@oO0catty0Oo 7 күн бұрын

This is the best subreddit.

@MontgomeryWenis 7 күн бұрын

To be fair to doves, most species live on ledges or in cliffside nooks. All they really need is a stick to keep the eggs from rolling over the edge. They're not flashy, they're pragmatic.

@spoookley 7 күн бұрын

@@MontgomeryWenisyea! prolly one of the reasons why humans domesticated them in the past. simple living arrangements make for great pets!

@Digitalsurfer265 6 күн бұрын

I once saw a pigeon nest on the edge of an apartment balcony made of 4 sticks, a cotton ball, and prayers

@rahulvats95 7 күн бұрын

We had one in our balcony, it had two eggs and a mother pigeon, we didn't use our balcony for a month and during this time the eggs hatched and the chick grew old enough to fly away. It stayed close to the balcony for a few days but then it flew away. The nest left behind was just a straw mat of sort behind the bucket.

@stephenolan5539 7 күн бұрын

When was that? Less than a year ago?

@stephanieparker1250 7 күн бұрын

I’d like to know how the humming birds can tell the difference between the mosses.

@eliljeho 7 күн бұрын

I'm sure the scientists do as well.

@GeorgeNoiseless 7 күн бұрын

Taste? Smell? Probably tastes pretty bitter.

@stephanieparker1250 7 күн бұрын

@@GeorgeNoiseless That’s probably true, and maybe it only grows in certain areas of trees so location combined with taste might be the key.

@joshuagabe 7 күн бұрын

Birds imprint well and if your first bit of life is in this moss then….

@mrapistevist 7 күн бұрын

Around here we have resident hummingbirds. I feed them. They're pretty smart. While they may not understand bacteria and/or fungi, they choose that moss on purpose.

@CSR462 7 күн бұрын

Could the magpie be using antibird spikes as a replacement for thorns, perhaps? Maybe thorns were more prevalent in its environment before human settlements, but the similarities between spikes and thorns allow the bird to instinctually use it to its benefit. I wonder if the cowbird had an original bird it formed a parasitic relationship with, but for some reason is no longer in the same environment so it had to adapt.

@amarug 7 күн бұрын

Now it all makes sense, why our high school chemistry teacher was a hummingbird

@OneAmongBillions 7 күн бұрын

Savannah, per your shirt, you may think you are "Trying my best," but I have to think...that was a giftedly engaging presentation with very fine comedic delivery. Thanks!

@Oler-yx7xj 7 күн бұрын

It's quite crazy to me how almost all the birds make nests at all. Such consistency is surprising for mother nature

@slwrabbits 7 күн бұрын

I watched a very pregnant bunny build a nest out of hay, fur, and an entire towel. She was very determined and very methodical about it. (And then she had babies in it and still won't let me near them a week later. Maternal instincts are WILD.)

@falcoperegrinus82 7 күн бұрын

Nesting behaviors, the types of structures they build, and the structures themselves are incredibly consistent within each species.

@4RILDIGITAL 7 күн бұрын

I never thought that nests I've seen as poorly made could actually be ingenious survival strategies for birds.

@alexlucasmusic 7 күн бұрын

The irony of the “trying my best” shirt got me 💀

@AuntieDawnsKitchen 7 күн бұрын

Those anti-bird strips are one of the most available objects in an urban environment. And it’s not like the birds get impaled on them - they’re just supposed to keep them from roosting there. 👍 to the smarter-than-human corvids

@carissafisher7514 6 күн бұрын

If you were my neighbor I would leave those out for you. Seems mean and unfriendly.

@TheShizzlemop 6 күн бұрын

@@carissafisher7514 stop being a weirdo

@rrai1999 6 күн бұрын

@@carissafisher7514 the hell is your problem leaving weird ass comments on every thread harassing people? Shut up!

@PMX 7 күн бұрын

Doves at my backyard make "nests" (if you can label 5 twigs as a "nest") on top of the large leaves on a Monstera plant. Leaves that are at 45 degrees. Yeah. Not only do their eggs keep falling off, days olds baby doves keep falling off too, their parents don't care at all. Already had to raise a couple of baby doves, since the parents abandon the nest as soon as their babies fall off 😕

@filonin2 3 күн бұрын

It's not that they don't care; it's that they lost their forelimbs and the ability to do anything about a fallen baby about 100 million years ago.

@ethanlamoureux5306 19 сағат бұрын

@@filonin2 They didn’t lose their forelimbs. We call them wings.

@Useraccount85 7 күн бұрын

I had a pigeon make a nest in a bucket on my balcony, it was way better than the pile of sticks another pigeon left.

@nx6062 7 күн бұрын

It's not troll, they found the new meta

@Nedski42YT 7 күн бұрын

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) nest right outside my bedroom window in re-purposed Xmas tree (southeastern New York state). Last year (2023) they had a least four broods in the same nest from late winter to late summer. Lots of cooing. 🕊

@dlxmarks 7 күн бұрын

The mourning doves in my part of California can raise up to 6 broods per year but don't seem to use the same nest twice in a row probably because they're full of recent poo and pee from the last babies. I thought flimsy nest building was in part because they get used only once and for a short time per family season.

@Nedski42YT 7 күн бұрын

@@dlxmarks The New York doves did all four of last years brood in the same nest and the first brood of this year! After that they threw the old nest out of the tree and waited two months and built a new one. I wonder how Mourning Doves taste, like chicken maybe? I'm kidding!

@paulkinzer7661 3 күн бұрын

Someone has probably already commented on this, but cowbirds got their name because they traditionally followed bison herds as they ate their way across the grasslands, with the birds eating the bugs that lived on and around the bison herds. Brood parasitism is a strategy that allowed them to breed while not needing to stay in one place as the herds moved across long distances. The magpies? They're just badass.

@MeppyMan 7 күн бұрын

The hummingbirds don’t really recognise what it does for them as such. They just ended up being naturally selected over the ones that didn’t use that specific moss.

@53RP3N75 7 күн бұрын

How would you know?

@elwan_ 7 күн бұрын

@@53RP3N75do you think birds know microbes? /j

@NovemberIGSnow 7 күн бұрын

Species create their niche as much as they are created by it. We can't always replay 22 million years of evolution to see when certain interactions between various species started happening, and the fossil record for Ancistrodes genuflexa is probably poorly detailed. So it's just a guess that the moss existed as it does now before the hummingbirds started nesting with it, or that the hummingbirds in this area evolved specifically to use the moss. Natural selection also isn't able to describe all animal behaviors. I doubt that there's a gene or set of genes in these hummingbirds that cause them to find this specific moss. We've observed young hummingbirds spying on older hummingbirds building nests, seemingly studying what materials and methods they use. If hummingbirds learn nest building through this way, then the choice of moss is a socially learned behavior, not an evolutionary one.

@53RP3N75 7 күн бұрын

@@NovemberIGSnow you should read up on the latest research about scentience in insects

@carissafisher7514 6 күн бұрын

You haven’t seen any movies about birds building habitats. And the theory of natural selection is being disproved every day.

@einienj3281 7 күн бұрын

I've seen some awful magpie nests, but that...that anti-bird metal thingy takes the cake 😂

@kevinolive 6 күн бұрын

My nephew found that a killdeer had built its nest in his limestone gravel driveway-just in the rocks. The momma had fits anytime we got close.

@Debbie-henri 6 күн бұрын

Just the other day, I saw just about the worst nest for location. Walking along a beach of pebbles, lots of them speckled - I don't know what made me stop and look down more carefully, but I did so, and finally focused on an egg. Speckled like the pebbles around it, it had been placed on one feather. I shouted back to my husband to be careful, there were seagull eggs on the beach, and had to tiptoe back to the car, finding yet another egg on the way. I touched it, to find it was warm, so it was being cared for, but the seagulls were all having a great time chasing waves down the beach.

@starshot5172 7 күн бұрын

Just wanted to say that you're a great host. I didn't really like the new video format at first, but I feel this studio presentation is way better than the old greenscreen.

@sleepybear2391 7 күн бұрын

That sponsorship just saved me bc I was struggling to figure out a last minute father's day gift. 😅 It was perfect! Thanks haha

@Platypi007 7 күн бұрын

I'm 2019 a pair of mourning doves built a nest in an empty coconut husk hanging planter on my apartment balcony. They had three chicks hatch and survive, far as I know. It seemed like a really well-built nest. Same year some warblers built a nest inside my watering can. I had a busy balcony! Couple of years later doves built another nest in the same planter, only this time there was no more coconut husk, just the metal frame, and it was sitting on a table. They put like 15 pieces of pine straw and a twig. One egg rolled out and met its demise on the pavement. This was a pretty early spring nest, and it got cold again so I think the other eggs died from lack of insulation on the bottom side and the birds abandoned the nest and never built another on my balcony. I even got them another coconut husk liner for the basket, just in case...

@renocence 6 күн бұрын

I just want to say, to the writing team, I like what you have been doing! Ways of explanation, word choice, that kind of stuff.

@Lovehandels 7 күн бұрын

Anit-bird spike nest sounds bad-ass! More power to the mag-pies!

@mildlymarvelous 7 күн бұрын

My ecology class found a largish bird egg buried in sand in a stream this summer. The only theory we had was that some Mourning Dove built a nest so badly that the egg fell out!

@falcoperegrinus82 7 күн бұрын

There are actually birds that bury their eggs, the Megapodes for example.

@mildlymarvelous 7 күн бұрын

@@falcoperegrinus82 Huh, I actually didn’t know that! It definitely wasn’t one of those though, we’re in Michigan lol!

@torakfett3351 6 күн бұрын

I got that Good News for my husband for Father’s Day, he stopped checking the news because of all the negativity. He’ll be really happy. ❤

@LoneIrbis 7 күн бұрын

I breed pet pigeons, and they don't really do nests at all. They prefer human-made nests over any pathetic construction they'd be able to make themselves. So far the best nests for them that I've found are big plastic dog food bowls with hand-made nest made of ropes on top of it. With nice cotton fabric lining that is regularly replaced for a clean one, mind you. A few pairs also like to tear some paper and add shreds on top of it, but it seems more like ritualistic behavior than actual attempt to improve the nest. Those bits of paper usually don't stick inside the nest for long anyway, it's only until both eggs are laid. Then they relax and let me clear all that trash from inside.

@rhysodunloe2463 7 күн бұрын

At our local train station for the third year in a row some pigeon is building its nest right behind the handrail of the escalator. I've seen multiple eggs dropped down there but they had a chick every summer. It's so close to the people though.

@TnT_F0X 7 күн бұрын

2:50 So what I'm hearing is build a house out of meteorites.

@quite1enough 4 күн бұрын

The last one is like ultimate trolling of people by nature

@jimjimsauce 6 күн бұрын

bird deterrent spikes aren’t really that dangerous for birds at all, they just aren’t easy to land/perch on.

@kaleoariola 7 күн бұрын

A meteorite house would be a huge flex!

@jstoner9029 7 күн бұрын

Does laziness make humans more adaptable? Worth a try..

@RIVERSTYX1981 7 күн бұрын

I dunno. Seems like a lot of effort...

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts 6 күн бұрын

I love the idea of a bird searching a forest full of moss to find one particular kind of moss. It really shows the wisdom they've been designed with, not every human would go to such lengths for their children.

@serv-on 7 күн бұрын

Got that jarvis merch

@brendaj252 6 күн бұрын

Hey, I think at 7:02 you're talking about mourning doves, but the video shown looks like white-wing doves. I don't know if their nest building habits are the same, but wanted to point that out!

@DomyTheMad420 7 күн бұрын

10:08 and so began an entire full 70 straight seconds of failing to contain my laughter at the monumental "go f*ck yourself" they pulled on us. new favorite bird species right here

@22espec 7 күн бұрын

I remember seeing a photo of a bir just laying his egg in a branch, no nest, it just put its egg in the angle of two branched and I always wondered if that was real.

@JTA1961 7 күн бұрын

It was a bad yoke

@strictlyeducationalmagick 7 күн бұрын

The bird is a little smarter than the researcher. He rips it loose because he doesn't want it on your house, While loose part in mouth, mide as build.

@charlessarver1637 7 күн бұрын

These birds have more devotion to their kids than many human parents do😆🥁😆

@TheKrispyfort 7 күн бұрын

Humans also contain parasitic brooders

@charlessarver1637 7 күн бұрын

@@TheKrispyfort I take it you're against adopting😆🥁😆

@mitchelltravis1187 3 күн бұрын

We had a Roadrunner 'out back for years, when we found their nest it was just a big thick flat 'landing pad' about 12 feet up with no rim lol

@evgeniydragondog 5 күн бұрын

Crows at my grandparents garden always stole aluminium, copper and even steel wire. They used it to build the best everything-proof nest. But some bird in same garden made worst nest ever. They made it on the bottom of steel pipe served as part of the fence. I think they were drowned after rain 😢

@jagx234 7 күн бұрын

I learned this from Lost in the Pond a while ago, actually. Interesting

@N3ur0m4nc3r 7 күн бұрын

Today, I found out that dry eggs are a HUGE concern among bird parents.

@LorwynAR 5 күн бұрын

There was a magpie nest in a tree just next to my window, I used to watch them fiddling with it. And yea. It was made partially of anti-bird spikes. Mostly facing outwards in this case. Metal as hell.

@wendywithagun 6 күн бұрын

I once went to the Aistralian War Memorial in Canberra and I saw a pigeon that made it's neet in anti-bird spikes with poppies

@Skukkix23 7 күн бұрын

0:19 and then read the shirt

@Insan1tyW0lf 7 күн бұрын

None of the nests are terrible, it's our expectations and hot takes of them that are.

@neepgang4091 6 күн бұрын

A nest made from anti bird spikes has gotta be near the pinnacle of the beauty of natural entropy

@sjoervanderploeg4340 7 күн бұрын

I have a photo of a pigeon that dumped enough twigs over those spikes to eventually make a nest on top! Looked like a garrison tower to me!

@lyndsaybrown8471 7 күн бұрын

Missed opportunity to say the magpies are building their nests using pure spike.

@TheKrispyfort 7 күн бұрын

Petty Squad

@johnosullivan675 7 күн бұрын

Maybe that's WHY the moss is rare.

@andrewmcbride4845 7 күн бұрын

It would be interesting to compare the construction techniques of the bird spike magpies with those of the cactus wrens in the American southwest.

@omiai 7 күн бұрын

I really enjoyed that cideo! Thank you! The presenter is great, and did a brilliant job of keeping my interest and is fun to listen to!

@hillppari 7 күн бұрын

ah gotta love it when they dont include the thumbnail as a real scene

@thejackal5099 7 күн бұрын

How is Hank's health going? I was hoping that was the good news he was going to bring up.

@GeorgeNoiseless 7 күн бұрын

Hank has a personal vlog channel

@miriamrosemary9110 7 күн бұрын

He's in remission - he gives general updates on Vlogbrothers. He's ok now :)

@miriamrosemary9110 7 күн бұрын

@@GeorgeNoiseless Yep, he also updates on hankschannel

@erdvilla 6 күн бұрын

Swallows make (renew) nests every year from Spring to Summer under my balcony, up to 4 every time. I like their clay nests. And love seeing the parents laboriously fly all over the street catching bugs, A LOT OF BUGS. And their sounds early in the morning. I just have to clean the sidewalk every two weeks to remove the droppings from the chicks.