You forgot to add Sociable Weaver birds. They can as a group build nests that weigh up to 2000 lbs and house up to 500 birds. Sometimes birds that aren't helping enough on the main structure and just fixes their own place get chased away and when they later return they are more cooperative and help out more on the main structure.
Well he did mention that this was just a tiny sampling of what's out there in the world of bird architecture. But I feel like they should totally do a follow-up "7 more crazy nests" kind of episode.
I learned today killer whales sometimes eat moose because moose are apparently good swimmers and can dive for under water veggies. Let's see an episode about that pile of shenanigans!
Hank you forgot the white noddy (Gygis alba) (aka white tern or fairy tern) which doesn’t bother to build any nest at all, it just lays its eggs balanced on a *thin, bare tree branch!* When the baby bird hatches it does so *very* carefully so it doesn’t fall off the branch, fortunately it hatches with very well developed feet to hold on to the branch.
Nolan Westrich I saw these birds nesting when I was in the Seychelles about 20 years ago and I didn’t notice anything unusual about the eggs. The parents are very careful when they get on and off the egg (only ever one egg at a time) and most of the time there is a parent on it, so they keep it safe (I guess...) What I found more interesting was the chicks, which are typical baby bird balls of fluffy feathers, but just sitting on a bare branch. I also saw some dead babies on the ground, but it was a “la Niña” year so apparently food was scarce and it wasn’t so much that the babies had fallen and died, but that the parents couldn’t get enough food for them and they died, then fell.
@@warrenny People who share my first and last name are rather more numerous than you probably think. I'm obviously not this guy, to mention the most notorious example- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman
Each spring when the horses shed, we leave out the hair for the barn swallows to make their nests out of. The swallows then keep the mosquito population in check. It’s the least we can do for them.
thats a line I never thought to hear "don't drop giraffes in birds nests" thanks Hank! I was just about to do that exact thing! I will have to settle for a rhino instead.
That's too dangerous!! Rhinos are basically legally blind and might accidentally step on an egg, bruising it. Use hippos instead, they eat lots of carrots
I live in a region with horneros,or Joãos-de-Barro as they are called in Brazil.They build 2-chamber clay nests that look like small ovens on the energy poles in the city.They are quite nice but often give trouble to the electricity dept.I always found their nests amazing.
When I was in Texas, a hummingbird nest was in the crook of a branch right over my parking space. The branch was long and spindly, but was more than enough for the nest. Three eggs were laid in it. I never got to see them hatch as I was in the military and we had to go on 12 hours shifts for 7 days a week that lasted over 3 months before we got a day off. I couldn't see the nest in the dark, and was frankly too tired to even remember it. It's too bad, I'd have enjoyed seeing little humming birds grow up. One place I lived when I was a kid had a barn and some swallows built a nest in the loft. They were so used to people you could pet them. They kept coming back every year that I lived there, so it was something to look forward to.
Thought for sure bower birds would be on this list, for which the male finds enticing blue items. And more basic than piping plover “scratch” nests surely must be Emperor Penguins’ nests, which are basically dad’s feet, right?
The Australian Brush Turkey does not work on the mound during winter. Work starts in late Spring, and the mound is abandoned as the weather cools in Autumn. Fierce competition for control of the mound (mating rights!) throughout the Summer, means a succession of males get to have his moment in the sun. And the young, when they hatch, dig their way out and are totally independent from day one! They can even fly (well, just enough to escape a predator!), as soon as their feathers are dry...
AgentRiode X51 Sheri Williamson, co-director of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, jokes that a hummingbird's vocabulary is 100 percent swear words.
"Who wants to keep thinking about birds the same way all the time." Great line. And worth thinking about for all us ideologically-driven humans. Great channel, too!
Spotting eagle nests was one of my favorite things when exploring/fishing/hiking/traveling/etc. Some truly massive homes, and can very interesting to see, obviously more so when inhabited. If you have a chance to see one I recommend checking it out. From a distance of course.
You missed the "João de Barro" (Furnarius rufus), a bird from South America who has a nest made almost exclusively out of clay, as the name suggests ("Clay John" in Brazil). It's an engineering feat because the oppening is always facing the rising sun (east, mostly)...
One of my favourite birds is the pardalote. They *mostly* build burrows into muddy creek banks and the like, but I've also seen them nesting in drainage holes in grave markers, and in old termite nests hanging on trees.
I had a bird that made a nest in what seemed like an impossible spot and it lasted for years, until a new type of bird came and they started fighting for it. Now there is only one bird that came back this year and it’s been sleeping above the front door all alone and without a nest. It’s very sad.
Wow I still haven't stop saying Swiftlets nest in my head when I saw this I thought you would talk about it because a Swiftlet nest is made of there solidified saliva
Can you guys please make a follow up episode to this one? I know you said this is just the tip of the iceberg. But there's so many more crazy birds nests out there it would definitely be worth another list. :)
@@biohazard724 one of the languages spoken in South Africa is Afrikaans and the word "Hamerkop" is afrikaans so it has a very different pronunciation to the way he he said it. Soutie just means "English accent". No hate for the guy tho I'm soutie myself 🤣🔥
@@biohazard724 it's what the afrikaaners (Afrikaans speaking) call English speakers. It's both derogatory and amusing/endearing at the same time. It comes from when the Brits invaded by sea and tried to colonize the area. ...it directly translates to ~ "salty"
Oh, my goodness! I did! Hank Green, I did get a surprise chocolate bar! Thank you. Placing that to the side, I am in awe of the variety of nests. Thank you for sharing about this. A nest structure that I love and which we find beneath small walking bridges are nests by swallows. I am in awe that they use mud as a means to construct their nests.
They ain't got nothing on my conure. He decided to make a bed in his hut with 12 of my 1ozt silver bars. How he was able to carry them up there and why he would want to sleep on hard cold silver I have no idea. I decided to just let him keep them because I read silver has antimicrobial properties and plus it makes him happy.
10:10 i like the hummingbird's nest on top of the cactus bc it helps to camouflage their beaks as spines, and it would be hard for predators to get to it
I’m really impressed how almost correct Hank said Hamerkop. Only part he got wrong was the O. Sound should be more like to O sound in Opera. Otherwise, 10/10 video.
I’d love a new episode about more nests! Maybe you can talk about Quakers, aka Monk Parakeets. They build huge communal nests with several “apartments” in them, that can span several metres across! Very dapper 😌
Yes, I was gonna strap a giraffe to my back, climb a tree, and drop it in a giant birds nest hahaha. Probably breaking multiple federal laws in the process.
Since Bald Eagles pick the tallest tree to make their nests in, do their nests get struck by lightening very often? I am seriously wondering if that happens.
I love bird's nests! We have both Bald Eagles and Hummingbirds here in the surrounding Phoenix desert. The Bald Eagle nests aren't huge here for various reasons, but they still work. You can see them in less busy areas with big trees and nearby water. Rural water collection parks are the best places around here, but they compete for real estate, since Turkey vultures like the same areas. If you know a the East Valley of the Phoenix Area, there is a nesting pair near the corner of Power Rd. And Guadalupe in Gilbert.
i collect fur from my cats and put them on the clothesline. every now and again I see birds taking them to make their nests warm and cozy for the winter and it warms my heart
My grandfather had a dude-ranch in Wyoming. When one of his largest spruces died to beatle rot, he hired a crane and tractor to unearth it, turn it upside-down, and replant it with the root-ball reaching into the sky. As he had hoped, an osprey couple made this their yearly nesting spot. It was really cool until an unusually wet rainy season led to it falling down.
That is some seriously creative thinking. Not only did the nest work, but ospreys are large birds easy to watch and amazing divers as they go straight down until just a few inches above the water and then extend their talons to snag fish. We used to have several pairs at our home on the water in Rhode Island but DDT wiped them out completely. Recently though one pair has been seen so maybe all hope is not lost.
The heaviest human recorded weighed 635 kilograms, and I think that they meant the average weight for a human, rather than the weight of any selected individual.
Archaeoptery X I mean I believe what the Bible and what God says, not what man says. We are made in the image of God, and we don’t look like birds do we? Birds are just another beautiful and wonderful part of creation we are able to enjoy. Their beautiful song a toon that God put within them. It’s amazing. So we have nothing to argue about I was just pointing out how amazing God is. Everything He made is incredible, and that includes you! But never think that you can be smarter than a being that’s not bound by the laws of space and time in our physical universe.
Archaeoptery X Chaos can never create order. Also The only way God (upper case) could have made everything is if He was outside of space and time and not bound by the law of our universe. Just like we can’t contemplate eternity, we can’t wrap our minds around how a being would exist outside of the physical universe we can see. But God proves many times that He is the real God and fulfilling so many prophesies with Jesus it’s just insane the think it’s all a coincidence. But that’s something you have to overcome, if you think that you are smarter than God and all mankind go and find truth in every belief system, you’ll get a jumbled mess and have no direction and no true fulfillment in life other than maybe knowledge of religions. But God made a real way to have relationship with Him and forgave us all our trespasses and died in our place because He loved you and thought you were worth dying for. Gods love for us is something that simply cannot be overcome, it’s when we put down trying to understand everything in our own mind, humble ourselves, and seek Him that we are able to find Him.
The largest eagle nest I've ever seen didn't quite match the "store a giraffe in here" one, but it took up the entire top third of the tree it was built on. It was pretty neat, and also I have no idea how the tree didn't, like, bend or bow under the weight. It was huge.
The "Balinsasayaw" is a bird found in some parts of the Philippines (Masbate, Palawan etc.). They build nests using their own saliva, and what's surprising is that people harvest this nest to make it into soup (Birds nest soup, a soup popular to Chinese people).
Love your levity & enthusiasm for these winged sweeties. You are as adorable as they are. Tnx for sharing such loveliness in a world full of intellectuals who have dark - if any - hearts. Hope you find your pleasant surprises today too :)
in comparison to other things in 1963 Florida, the Bald Eagle's Nest is bigger in volume than just under 4 Agena Upper-Stages (the upper-stage of the Atlas launch-vehicle at the time) or more than half of a Mercury-Redstone Launch-Vehicle
Killdeer are similar to plovers and nest on the ground. Their eggs have camouflage too. But the parents have a unique defense mechanism, they will pretend to be injured to entice the predator away from the nest!
I've seen a killdeer nest on a street in my city. Gutsy li'l things. We have plovers on our beaches too. They're so well camouflaged that our national parks ppl have to put up signs to tell people where they are so they can avoid them and keep dogs off those areas of beaches.
Reminded me of a kildeer a type of plover nest on the edge of a senior center parking lot. A scrape nest with the eggs camouflaged like the gravel around them
But I already thought birds were awesome so this didn't change my opinion at all! Also, even the crummiest bird nest (looking at you, city doves) are pretty amazing if you ask yourself, "Could _I_ have built something like this using only my face and toes?"
What I don't get is how animals "know" how to do these things. I know, ppl. say that it's "in their genes", but... how does that work, exactly? Is it truly bio-determined or is it learned? 'Cause it looks like literal knowledge is being passed on from generation to generation without communication. Is that known? 2nd question: do these techniques evolve gradually or is it just one bird one day deciding to try something new and others following his/her example?
Genes play a part of it another is trail and error. Some techniques evolve over generations due to how they are and others are birds doing what ever. It really depends on the species and their habbitat. A lot goes into it.
I mean, we know how to breathe without being taught. That’s inborn information. So is eating and certain fears. There is a lot of information contained in genes.
Yeah, plovers are incredibly well camouflaged. Sometimes you don't even know they're there until you start seeing the sand apparently start shifting en masse in front of you. And when they run (not fly), their tiny legs make it look like they're just floating above the sand. They somehow learned not to bob up and down when they run. Crazy!
I figured the video would mention the mallee fowl and its nest. What about kingfishers who burrow into the sides of banks, the birds that burrow into termite nests, or puffins and burrowing owls who take over other animals' burrows?
8:30 I found an eared grebe nest once, in the Absaroka Mountains near Yellowstone :) It was built more or less the same way as the pied-billed's -- and oddly, there were *three* adult birds who appeared to be caring for it. (My best guess is that one of them was the offspring of the previous year's clutch, sticking around to help care for its siblings.)
I had a hummingbird friend once, found her tangled up in a bit of fishing line that was balled up in a branch hanging over the river bank. The poor thing was soaking wet and struggling to keep above water by hanging on to a bit of branch that was twitching back and forth in the current. I picked her up and removed as much of the line as I could without the risk of tightening it, then put her in my shirt pocket so she could warm up and dry off a bit while I got the boat back to shore, where I had better tools and some packets of sugar in the truck. By the time I got back just a few minutes later, she was deeply asleep. I managed to safely remove all of the monofilament with fingernail clippers and a razor knife, and mixed up a bit of sugar water in a 20oz water bottle. She woke up after a few minutes of being in the warm truck and gladly slurped down a surprising amount of sugar water from the bottle cap. She eventually crawled out of my pocket and climbed up my arm to get closer to the air vents and spread her wings, and was mostly dry by the time we got home. Spent the rest of the day hiding in my pocket and drinking sugar water, and the night in an old birdcage on my night stand with plenty of twigs to climb and perch on. Talked to a vet the next day, had her examined and left with a clean bill of health. She didn't seem to want to leave, although she could have flown off at any time. My home wasn't even a mile away from where I found her, so I think she would have been fine if she did. She stayed with me for 5 more years, refusing to go any further outside than the back porch unless she was accompanying me. I started solely wearing shirts with front pockets just for her, stuffing it with a small handkerchief before she loaded up and stuck her head out to see what was happening. It was 50/50 whether she'd return to the pocket or my hair after buzzing around. She made several nests of her own throughout the house, the first was a sort of rolled up leaf from one of my potted plants on the porch. I took the hint and put one next to my bed as well, she had been staying in a coffee mug filled with straw on my night stand.
Years ago I lived in Fallbrook, CA and the swallows built a mud nest veritically against the house. There didn’t use twigs or straw only mud. They raided the fruit trees on my property and especially loved the ripe persimmons that they would consume in 1 day. What was left of each fruit remained hanging on the tree like apple cores.
You forgot to add Sociable Weaver birds. They can as a group build nests that weigh up to 2000 lbs and house up to 500 birds. Sometimes birds that aren't helping enough on the main structure and just fixes their own place get chased away and when they later return they are more cooperative and help out more on the main structure.
Even the non-sociable weaver birds (we have plenty of them around here) builds impressive nest.
Well he did mention that this was just a tiny sampling of what's out there in the world of bird architecture. But I feel like they should totally do a follow-up "7 more crazy nests" kind of episode.
That's amazing :O
They do have an episode that details the weavers and their nests!
In Austin Texas there is a kind of green parot that makes big communal nests, too. I don't know if they get kicked out for not contributing, though.
Grebes have water beds, how very 70's of them.
You made my day.
I came to fix the washing machine
Theres a brazilian bird called "João de Barro" that makes nests out of mud.
*_dandelion fuzz_*
I really can't get over that
"Because it wasn't cute enough already!"
Meh, tons of birds swoop domestic cats and dogs for their fur to line their nests, that's even snugglier. Made my cat scared of Wattle Birds, though.
I need to know when he says that
@@bah-fv2ec 10:52
I've actually seen a hummingbird nest and it was the cutest thing ever. :) 15 years or so later and I still think about it.
One time I came across a crow's nest (60x50 cm) made from fur and bone of a nearby dead boar,gross but impressive
Holy fuuuu
@@AifDaimon Crows are.
Crows are so smart it wouldn't surprise if a nest made from parts of a corpse was meant as a warning.
Lol i read as nearly dead boar and was like wtf
@@TylerMarsh43 ha! me too
I learned today killer whales sometimes eat moose because moose are apparently good swimmers and can dive for under water veggies. Let's see an episode about that pile of shenanigans!
Now I have to find a way to work the phrase "pile of shenanigans" into conversations.
But but moose are good swimmers, they can cross rivers that most animals would die crossing. Killer whales are the ones coming on land hunting moose
@@HermanVonPetri watch super trooper's it has the perfect way to use shenanigans in a sentence😉
@@wariv7746- I thought the same thing. I love that stupid movie lol
@@meghanparris8203 well they do say great minds think alike😁
Hank you forgot the white noddy (Gygis alba) (aka white tern or fairy tern) which doesn’t bother to build any nest at all, it just lays its eggs balanced on a *thin, bare tree branch!* When the baby bird hatches it does so *very* carefully so it doesn’t fall off the branch, fortunately it hatches with very well developed feet to hold on to the branch.
Thanks. I could remember that there was such a thing from a David Attenborough documentary, but not which type it was.
Do the eggs have special bottoms for balancing?
Nolan Westrich I saw these birds nesting when I was in the Seychelles about 20 years ago and I didn’t notice anything unusual about the eggs. The parents are very careful when they get on and off the egg (only ever one egg at a time) and most of the time there is a parent on it, so they keep it safe (I guess...)
What I found more interesting was the chicks, which are typical baby bird balls of fluffy feathers, but just sitting on a bare branch. I also saw some dead babies on the ground, but it was a “la Niña” year so apparently food was scarce and it wasn’t so much that the babies had fallen and died, but that the parents couldn’t get enough food for them and they died, then fell.
@@markchapman6800 Mark.....Chapman......wait, are you still at the Wende?
@@warrenny People who share my first and last name are rather more numerous than you probably think. I'm obviously not this guy, to mention the most notorious example-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman
i found a humming birds nest made out of my yellow lab's hair once
that is adorable
I found one . The outside is reinforced with likem , the grey stuff that grows on rocks and trees.
@@risquerabbitthehomespa9356 i like lichen
@@Sausketo so that's how to spell it. I knew lit did not look right. Lol
Each spring when the horses shed, we leave out the hair for the barn swallows to make their nests out of. The swallows then keep the mosquito population in check. It’s the least we can do for them.
thats a line I never thought to hear "don't drop giraffes in birds nests" thanks Hank! I was just about to do that exact thing! I will have to settle for a rhino instead.
That's too dangerous!! Rhinos are basically legally blind and might accidentally step on an egg, bruising it. Use hippos instead, they eat lots of carrots
* Looks at screen with a startled expression while lowering giraffe into a nest *
Genuine chuckle. Thanks!
@@alisoncircus it was for science!
STOP PUTTING GIRAFFES IN BIRD NESTS, PEOPLE!
🤣
Don't worry, just use a Brachiosaurus instead.
I live in a region with horneros,or Joãos-de-Barro as they are called in Brazil.They build 2-chamber clay nests that look like small ovens on the energy poles in the city.They are quite nice but often give trouble to the electricity dept.I always found their nests amazing.
czcams.com/video/p49YItoMRMM/video.html
I was looking for this comment. These birds are amazing, their clay nests should've shown up on the video, especially on the energy poles hahaha
Yeah! I felt a bit disappointed they weren't mentioned. Those little houses are amazing and cute!
They even sometimes build one nest on top of another! I have seen three nests one on top of the other. Thay are awesome!
When I was in Texas, a hummingbird nest was in the crook of a branch right over my parking space. The branch was long and spindly, but was more than enough for the nest. Three eggs were laid in it.
I never got to see them hatch as I was in the military and we had to go on 12 hours shifts for 7 days a week that lasted over 3 months before we got a day off. I couldn't see the nest in the dark, and was frankly too tired to even remember it.
It's too bad, I'd have enjoyed seeing little humming birds grow up.
One place I lived when I was a kid had a barn and some swallows built a nest in the loft. They were so used to people you could pet them. They kept coming back every year that I lived there, so it was something to look forward to.
That's so cool that you could pet the birds! Never heard anything like that
Thought for sure bower birds would be on this list, for which the male finds enticing blue items. And more basic than piping plover “scratch” nests surely must be Emperor Penguins’ nests, which are basically dad’s feet, right?
Bower bird bowers aren't nests. They're display structures, the female makes a nest for her eggs and cares for her young alone.
Yall should make this a series, because there are so many more crazy fascinating nests.
The Australian Brush Turkey does not work on the mound during winter. Work starts in late Spring, and the mound is abandoned as the weather cools in Autumn. Fierce competition for control of the mound (mating rights!) throughout the Summer, means a succession of males get to have his moment in the sun. And the young, when they hatch, dig their way out and are totally independent from day one! They can even fly (well, just enough to escape a predator!), as soon as their feathers are dry...
“Hummingbirds are the sharks of the sky.”
Said one philosopher.
AgentRiode X51
Sheri Williamson, co-director of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, jokes that a hummingbird's vocabulary is 100 percent swear words.
I understood that reference.
internallogic ok cap
@@magical_mage0 which cap? 😂😂
@@eekeey Captain Sparklemuffin? Wait, no... that's a dancing spider.
Gonna need an honorable mention for snow owls making nests out of corpses
What the hell, Hedwig?!?
And one for the brazilian bird João de barro, that makes nests out of mud. No twigs and sticks at all!
and also, one for the bird that makes nests out of puck
Hedwig: *WHYYYYYY*
@@capivara6094 puck? Do you mean puke? Which is actually just saliva, in reality, as I know what type of nest you are talking about.
I got the privilege of having a tailorbird nest in my backyard. The chicks were so cute!
My favorite is those penguins whose nest are collection small rock, they echange them, steal them from each other, that's adorable.
"Who wants to keep thinking about birds the same way all the time." Great line. And worth thinking about for all us ideologically-driven humans. Great channel, too!
Spotting eagle nests was one of my favorite things when exploring/fishing/hiking/traveling/etc.
Some truly massive homes, and can very interesting to see, obviously more so when inhabited. If you have a chance to see one I recommend checking it out. From a distance of course.
I hope incredible nests/homes becomes a series. Thatd be amazing
the ovenbird (João-de-barro) nest is amazing, I expected to see it here
maybe next time
You missed the "João de Barro" (Furnarius rufus), a bird from South America who has a nest made almost exclusively out of clay, as the name suggests ("Clay John" in Brazil). It's an engineering feat because the oppening is always facing the rising sun (east, mostly)...
Came here to say the same, here's a photo of one: s3.amazonaws.com/media.wikiaves.com.br/images/5391/1935524g_898fad2fe9496a6fa9580721fadaf078.jpg
I was thinking of that bird! Good choice.
I actualy live in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and I have a nest in a tree in front of my bedroom window... 😅
One of my favourite birds is the pardalote. They *mostly* build burrows into muddy creek banks and the like, but I've also seen them nesting in drainage holes in grave markers, and in old termite nests hanging on trees.
7:20 It supports the weight of a human? That means I could climb into a giant birds nest. That's pretty cool
As long as you are not a giraffe, go ahead!
I had a bird that made a nest in what seemed like an impossible spot and it lasted for years, until a new type of bird came and they started fighting for it. Now there is only one bird that came back this year and it’s been sleeping above the front door all alone and without a nest. It’s very sad.
Poor baby.
Cameo Shadowness I know, I get sad every time I come home late and see him all alone.
@@eddieozil21 Can you make him a special little house?
You are hands down the best SciShow narrator... CHANGE MY MIND
Wow I still haven't stop saying Swiftlets nest in my head when I saw this I thought you would talk about it because a Swiftlet nest is made of there solidified saliva
10/10 Good dinosaurs
Swift: I'm gonna spit me a home.
Until arsehole humans steal my best and make spit soup out of it 😡. Bloody humans.
Some frogs use semen... It can always be worse.
Female Swift:”Honey, is our home ready yet?”
Male Swift:”I need to make more saliva, keep describing insects!”😂
This is one of Hank's best. Absolutely top-notch. While the hummingbirds are adorable; Hank opening up about cuteness, is just the best.
Thanks, Hank. Now all I want to see is a Giraffe dropped into a bird's nest.
It looked confused and concerned. I don't think they climb well.
Don't do it!
qwertyferus oh come on! I've already got a cherry picker and everything!!
I once saw an Eagle nest where the upper third was covered in deer antlers it was quite impressive.
Can you guys please make a follow up episode to this one? I know you said this is just the tip of the iceberg. But there's so many more crazy birds nests out there it would definitely be worth another list. :)
I always think why people would dislike such videos.
Guys who disliked, please explain yourselves.
we all know that birds are cameras by the government, and the coronavirus is just a excuse so they can change their batteries
8, furnarius rufus nest, with his freacking CLAY HOUSE
I came here to comment just that! And something about Myiopsitta monachus' collective nests as well :)
I was very surprised not to see the mud nests of swallows either.
I came here to say exactly that!
Bower birds. The end.
Birds are underrepresented in the gaming industry
Birds are the most oppressed minority
Player_1 *screams in reptile*
@@Ricardowieringa _Points at Argonians_
Angry birds?
I'm South African and the way he says "Hamerkop" with such a "soutie" accent 😍🤣🔥
Soutie is foreign I'm guessing?
@@biohazard724 one of the languages spoken in South Africa is Afrikaans and the word "Hamerkop" is afrikaans so it has a very different pronunciation to the way he he said it. Soutie just means "English accent". No hate for the guy tho I'm soutie myself 🤣🔥
@@biohazard724 it's what the afrikaaners (Afrikaans speaking) call English speakers. It's both derogatory and amusing/endearing at the same time. It comes from when the Brits invaded by sea and tried to colonize the area. ...it directly translates to ~ "salty"
Hank losing it over how cute hummingbirds are makes me smile :)
In my region there is a bird called oropendola, they make the most amazing nests. They seem like dangling earrings. Search them up!
Research the argentinian "Hornero"... Now, that's a real nesting work of art.
Oh, my goodness! I did! Hank Green, I did get a surprise chocolate bar! Thank you. Placing that to the side, I am in awe of the variety of nests. Thank you for sharing about this. A nest structure that I love and which we find beneath small walking bridges are nests by swallows. I am in awe that they use mud as a means to construct their nests.
They ain't got nothing on my conure. He decided to make a bed in his hut with 12 of my 1ozt silver bars. How he was able to carry them up there and why he would want to sleep on hard cold silver I have no idea. I decided to just let him keep them because I read silver has antimicrobial properties and plus it makes him happy.
He is a silver stacker at heart😁
The thing to know is you're not housing a conure. It's a polymorphed dragon. ;)
@@1JackieLane That makes total sense now, how he can make those bloodcurdling sounds when he doesn't get his blackberries and grapes on time.
Where these hummin birds gettin all that spider silk?
10:10 i like the hummingbird's nest on top of the cactus bc it helps to camouflage their beaks as spines, and it would be hard for predators to get to it
I could listen to this guy talk about birds nests all day long. Love this channel!
1:50- "Why didn't you TELL me we were having a photoshoot done today?! I would've brushed my feathers first!"
Hank: Don't Put A Giraffe In A Bird's Nest!
Me, hiding a fully grown giraffe behind my back:
I’m really impressed how almost correct Hank said Hamerkop. Only part he got wrong was the O. Sound should be more like to O sound in Opera. Otherwise, 10/10 video.
Yes, it's name comes from the Afrikaans language, and means hammerhead in English.
I’d love a new episode about more nests!
Maybe you can talk about Quakers, aka Monk Parakeets. They build huge communal nests with several “apartments” in them, that can span several metres across! Very dapper 😌
You know before watching this video I thought of birds as Birds, but now after having seen it I know that birds are birds
Odd. For me it's precisely the reverse!
*birbs
Yes, I was gonna strap a giraffe to my back, climb a tree, and drop it in a giant birds nest hahaha. Probably breaking multiple federal laws in the process.
Remember to film it
@@DrymouthCWW No, I WAS gonna do it. Sci Show taught me not to. Good advice though. Thanks.
Oh I always take my pet giraffe in my nap sack and take hikes
Just get it out of ur head.
You forgot to mention the most amazing nest the "joao de barro" a bird from brazil that build his nest with mud making a dam very cool
Since Bald Eagles pick the tallest tree to make their nests in, do their nests get struck by lightening very often? I am seriously wondering if that happens.
It's risk they're willing to take like building a house in torndo, hurricane, or earthquake areas.
How else would we get a Zapdos?
I love bird's nests! We have both Bald Eagles and Hummingbirds here in the surrounding Phoenix desert. The Bald Eagle nests aren't huge here for various reasons, but they still work. You can see them in less busy areas with big trees and nearby water. Rural water collection parks are the best places around here, but they compete for real estate, since Turkey vultures like the same areas.
If you know a the East Valley of the Phoenix Area, there is a nesting pair near the corner of Power Rd. And Guadalupe in Gilbert.
So what is s turkey vulture nest like?
I was expecting you to talk about the joão-de-barro, a bird here from South America that makes nests out of mud high up on trees and house roofs.
i collect fur from my cats and put them on the clothesline. every now and again I see birds taking them to make their nests warm and cozy for the winter and it warms my heart
How dare you Hank Green tell me that I shouldn't put giraffes in bird's nests!? I do whatever I want on my weekends!!!😤😅😂🤷♂️
My grandfather had a dude-ranch in Wyoming. When one of his largest spruces died to beatle rot, he hired a crane and tractor to unearth it, turn it upside-down, and replant it with the root-ball reaching into the sky. As he had hoped, an osprey couple made this their yearly nesting spot. It was really cool until an unusually wet rainy season led to it falling down.
That is some seriously creative thinking. Not only did the nest work, but ospreys are large birds easy to watch and amazing divers as they go straight down until just a few inches above the water and then extend their talons to snag fish. We used to have several pairs at our home on the water in Rhode Island but DDT wiped them out completely. Recently though one pair has been seen so maybe all hope is not lost.
@@FloozieOne It was super special to watch them fish the rainbow trout out of the river. They were much better fishermen then us with our fly rods!
Also, it was right outside the main lodge's window.
what a perfect video to be watching while in the nest
One more reason to hate on roundup, what will the hummingbirds do if there are no more dandelions to use to build their nests with?
7:18 "it can support the weight of a human" did you guys know that a human can weigh anywhere from 50 kilos to 150?
The heaviest human recorded weighed 635 kilograms, and I think that they meant the average weight for a human, rather than the weight of any selected individual.
A human can also weigh more than 150 kg. It's just anything but healthy
Wow birds are so amazing
The first bald eagle nest I’ve ever seen was about 3 meters tall on a huge tree
Sure - the stuff at the bottom of the nest @ 10:50 looks _very_ cute...
3:35 Dayum! Birds can be so smart!
I think I underestimated how useful spider silk can be to birds before this. Spiders are awesome.
Those nests look awesome!
"Don't Put Giraffes In A Birds Nest!" - We need that on a t-shirt now, Hank.
God is so amazing! He made over 18,000 different beautiful unique birds just to please us (: so cool. I love birds!
Archaeoptery X nope people made birds into God’s. People worshipped the creation instead of the creator. Talks about it in the Bible.
Archaeoptery X I mean I believe what the Bible and what God says, not what man says. We are made in the image of God, and we don’t look like birds do we? Birds are just another beautiful and wonderful part of creation we are able to enjoy. Their beautiful song a toon that God put within them. It’s amazing. So we have nothing to argue about I was just pointing out how amazing God is. Everything He made is incredible, and that includes you! But never think that you can be smarter than a being that’s not bound by the laws of space and time in our physical universe.
Archaeoptery X Chaos can never create order. Also The only way God (upper case) could have made everything is if He was outside of space and time and not bound by the law of our universe. Just like we can’t contemplate eternity, we can’t wrap our minds around how a being would exist outside of the physical universe we can see. But God proves many times that He is the real God and fulfilling so many prophesies with Jesus it’s just insane the think it’s all a coincidence. But that’s something you have to overcome, if you think that you are smarter than God and all mankind go and find truth in every belief system, you’ll get a jumbled mess and have no direction and no true fulfillment in life other than maybe knowledge of religions. But God made a real way to have relationship with Him and forgave us all our trespasses and died in our place because He loved you and thought you were worth dying for. Gods love for us is something that simply cannot be overcome, it’s when we put down trying to understand everything in our own mind, humble ourselves, and seek Him that we are able to find Him.
Herr Schmidt I hope you feel better! Praying for your health. God loves you and cares about you!
Herr Schmidt He does! He died and suffered on the cross because He thought you were worth it
This is Pretty cool. Can you do a Video on Ant Colony Homes. Kinda like this video on Bird Nests. :)
The largest eagle nest I've ever seen didn't quite match the "store a giraffe in here" one, but it took up the entire top third of the tree it was built on.
It was pretty neat, and also I have no idea how the tree didn't, like, bend or bow under the weight.
It was huge.
The "Balinsasayaw" is a bird found in some parts of the Philippines (Masbate, Palawan etc.). They build nests using their own saliva, and what's surprising is that people harvest this nest to make it into soup (Birds nest soup, a soup popular to Chinese people).
Love your levity & enthusiasm for these winged sweeties. You are as adorable as they are. Tnx for sharing such loveliness in a world full of intellectuals who have dark - if any - hearts. Hope you find your pleasant surprises today too :)
Don't you know about the bird? Well everybody knows that the bird is a word
I missed that ornithological article about mass awareness of an avian variety.
Best rock song ever to only have 10 different words in it. Once you know the bird is the word, you don't need many others!
in comparison to other things in 1963 Florida, the Bald Eagle's Nest is bigger in volume than just under 4 Agena Upper-Stages (the upper-stage of the Atlas launch-vehicle at the time) or more than half of a Mercury-Redstone Launch-Vehicle
I always get so happy when I click on a SciShow video and hank is the one hosting!!
I love the giraffe comparison really puts it into prospective
You forgot my favorite. The swallows that make mud nests on cave walls... and bridges... and houses... and
Killdeer are similar to plovers and nest on the ground. Their eggs have camouflage too. But the parents have a unique defense mechanism, they will pretend to be injured to entice the predator away from the nest!
I've seen a killdeer nest on a street in my city. Gutsy li'l things. We have plovers on our beaches too. They're so well camouflaged that our national parks ppl have to put up signs to tell people where they are so they can avoid them and keep dogs off those areas of beaches.
Reminded me of a kildeer a type of plover nest on the edge of a senior center parking lot. A scrape nest with the eggs camouflaged like the gravel around them
Hummingbird segment….love Hank!
But I already thought birds were awesome so this didn't change my opinion at all!
Also, even the crummiest bird nest (looking at you, city doves) are pretty amazing if you ask yourself, "Could _I_ have built something like this using only my face and toes?"
What I don't get is how animals "know" how to do these things. I know, ppl. say that it's "in their genes", but... how does that work, exactly? Is it truly bio-determined or is it learned? 'Cause it looks like literal knowledge is being passed on from generation to generation without communication. Is that known?
2nd question: do these techniques evolve gradually or is it just one bird one day deciding to try something new and others following his/her example?
Genes play a part of it another is trail and error. Some techniques evolve over generations due to how they are and others are birds doing what ever. It really depends on the species and their habbitat. A lot goes into it.
Also, don't confuse a lack of language with a lack of communication.
I mean, we know how to breathe without being taught. That’s inborn information. So is eating and certain fears. There is a lot of information contained in genes.
I love nerding out on some scishow
Yeah, plovers are incredibly well camouflaged. Sometimes you don't even know they're there until you start seeing the sand apparently start shifting en masse in front of you. And when they run (not fly), their tiny legs make it look like they're just floating above the sand. They somehow learned not to bob up and down when they run. Crazy!
This video is like a collective review of why I subscribed to this channel. Hank is the best - as always!
The brushturkeys are actually kinda cute
The Hamerkop looks adorable.
this episode needs a part 2!
I figured the video would mention the mallee fowl and its nest. What about kingfishers who burrow into the sides of banks, the birds that burrow into termite nests, or puffins and burrowing owls who take over other animals' burrows?
8:30 I found an eared grebe nest once, in the Absaroka Mountains near Yellowstone :) It was built more or less the same way as the pied-billed's -- and oddly, there were *three* adult birds who appeared to be caring for it. (My best guess is that one of them was the offspring of the previous year's clutch, sticking around to help care for its siblings.)
I had a hummingbird friend once, found her tangled up in a bit of fishing line that was balled up in a branch hanging over the river bank. The poor thing was soaking wet and struggling to keep above water by hanging on to a bit of branch that was twitching back and forth in the current. I picked her up and removed as much of the line as I could without the risk of tightening it, then put her in my shirt pocket so she could warm up and dry off a bit while I got the boat back to shore, where I had better tools and some packets of sugar in the truck.
By the time I got back just a few minutes later, she was deeply asleep. I managed to safely remove all of the monofilament with fingernail clippers and a razor knife, and mixed up a bit of sugar water in a 20oz water bottle. She woke up after a few minutes of being in the warm truck and gladly slurped down a surprising amount of sugar water from the bottle cap. She eventually crawled out of my pocket and climbed up my arm to get closer to the air vents and spread her wings, and was mostly dry by the time we got home. Spent the rest of the day hiding in my pocket and drinking sugar water, and the night in an old birdcage on my night stand with plenty of twigs to climb and perch on. Talked to a vet the next day, had her examined and left with a clean bill of health.
She didn't seem to want to leave, although she could have flown off at any time. My home wasn't even a mile away from where I found her, so I think she would have been fine if she did.
She stayed with me for 5 more years, refusing to go any further outside than the back porch unless she was accompanying me. I started solely wearing shirts with front pockets just for her, stuffing it with a small handkerchief before she loaded up and stuck her head out to see what was happening. It was 50/50 whether she'd return to the pocket or my hair after buzzing around. She made several nests of her own throughout the house, the first was a sort of rolled up leaf from one of my potted plants on the porch. I took the hint and put one next to my bed as well, she had been staying in a coffee mug filled with straw on my night stand.
We need part II
birds are good
I wish birds are real
Keep in mind birds do all this with their feet and their face. Makes you wonder what kind of stuff non-avian dinosaurs came up with.
I came expecting literally nothing... but gotta love those facts!
Hank: DONT put giraffes inside birds nests!
Me: *sadly puts giraffe back*
Years ago I lived in Fallbrook, CA and the swallows built a mud nest veritically against the house. There didn’t use twigs or straw only mud. They raided the fruit trees on my property and especially loved the ripe persimmons that they would consume in 1 day. What was left of each fruit remained hanging on the tree like apple cores.