I submit to you...the most vicious creatures on the face of the planet.

[ZombieNixon]

Hummingbirds.

Yes. Hummingbirds. The little shiny feathery flower-drinking ones.

Those fights they get into the feeders: full-on war.

I see one at the feeder outside my window just now...another one buzzes it to try and chase it away and they get into a little sword fight with their beaks. Then...OMG...one gets behind the other, grabs it by the...erm...shoulders, I guess, and *sticks* it's *beak* into the back of the other one's *head*. :wow: Did the other one drop out of the air, dead?...nonono, it continued struggling, and the one on its back at the litterally jiggle it's head to dislodge its beak when pulling it out.

:wow:

Little fuckers are vicious!! :o

[billyskank]

1. That's nature

red in tooth and claw.

[Kajsa]

2. Vicious hummingbirds?

Those cute little bundles of avian wonder?

Who'd a thunk it?!?

:wow:

[ZombieNixon]

3. Ohh, they're mean.

:o

[nytemare]

4. I hear Blue Jays are pretty vicious, too.

Beautiful plumage.

:D

[ZombieNixon]

10. That one's not pinin' for fjords...

:D

[nytemare]

41. Mate, that jay wouldn't voom if you put 4 million volts through it

:D

[dropkickpa]

21. I had a cat as a kid

who spent an entire summer running for cover after he'd killed a nestful of jay-babies. Ma and Pa Blue-jay would initiate a blitz-kreig attack anytime he set foot outside. I felt bad for the cat, but it WAS hilarious to watch.

*edit for typo

[laheina]

5. Aren't they pretty territorial?

I don't know anything about birds, but I'm pretty sure that is the case.

I have never seen one do *that* though. Yikes!

[ZombieNixon]

8. Oh, yah...

HUGHly territorial!

[Haole Girl]

6. I was just sure you were going to say snakes....

...on a plane!

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

9. Well, there's your copycat

;)

[Haole Girl]

11. Who me?

;-)

Hey, how do I remove that Tom guy from my myspace account friends? I can't figure it out!

[ZombieNixon]

12. Make sure you're logged in,

then hit "Home." Go down to your friends...hit "Edit friends," select anyone you want to remove, hit "Remove selected friends." :)

[Haole Girl]

13. Thanks!

:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Hummingbirds are very fierce.

Here's a hummingbird fight on youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oq4eASrIyns

[SOteric]

14. Compared to the cruelty of man, they're vegetables.

[ZombieNixon]

15. Yeah, but thank God they don't have nukes.

My backyard would be a smoking, radioactive slag heap. :scared:

[tjwmason]

16. Not quite.

This is the true face of unadulterated viciousness...one can just see the ooooooozing horror which any creature which vexes this orge will face.





































:P


Sorry Z_N had to be done I fear.

[ZombieNixon]

18. Yeah, but that guy's lazy.

I mean, you have to really piss him off before he'll do anything. And if you're out of reach, then he gives up. :P

[pscot]

17. If you had said Republicans

I would have believed it. Hummingbirds are just territorial. Republicans, on the other hand, are greedy, veangeful, mean-spirited, hypocritical, lying, cheating, bigoted, basck-stabbing, murderous, war-mongering bastards.

[Deja Q]

19. I AM NOT VICIOUS, DAMMIT!

I AM THE MOST PEACELOVING PERSON ON THIS PLANET, AND I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING CALLED VIOLENT AND ROWDY AND UGLY AND AN ASS AND BEING SINGLE AND BLAHBETY BLABEDDY BLAH! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

20. Since when the fuck were you a hummingbird?

I mean, I think we might have noticed something was up in the pic threads. :shrug: :P

[Deja Q]

22. Well, not literally, but...

1. I tend to fly around as hyper as they do
2. I eat as much nectar as they do in order to maintain my girlish weight... well, pregnant girlish...
3. I have pretty colors
4. and I have a big... beak... that's disproportional to the rest of me


See? The similarity is perfect! :rofl:

Mind you, you were calling humans vicious. I am not vicious.

1. I am collaborative, not competitive.
2. Violence is not my way.
3. I wear clothing with pretty colors.
4. and I have a big... well, you get the picture; only a mountain can crush an ego as big as mine... but not the beak. :P

[xchrom]

23. mine are fighting outside right now.

well -- they are always fighting.

there are like 4 feeders within close proximity -- one hummingbird -- mojo -- thinks they are all his.

so the other 5 or 6 hummingbirds are always having to fight mojo for drive-by drink.

i'm surprised mojo isn't dead from exhaustion.

btw -- mojo isn't the biggest of the hummingbirds out there fighting -- just the first to always go to war.

[ZombieNixon]

24. Our vicious one is called Atilla.

And by the looks of it, he's just had kids. :o

[xchrom]

25. looking a little haggard is he?

they're so funny!

why do the ones who get beat up keep coming back -- and i mean within a few minutes?

[ZombieNixon]

28. That, and the fact that there's

an assload of obviously fledgling rufus hummingbirds just as mean floating around out there. :crazy:

[xchrom]

31. lol -- now that must be a sight!

[ZombieNixon]

32. They look like bumblebees

Until closer inspection, that is.

[xchrom]

33. lol -- they make that buzz sound too.

[NNadir]

26. Some of the most vicious creatures on our planet occupy our government.

I have often noted that Hummingbirds deserve trials at the Hague for their many crimes against birdom - although it is hard to keep the pesky little critters in their cells.

But Hummingbirds seem cute next to the real criminals.

[Jara sang]

27. I seen a hummingbird drop napalm on a ant colony.

Sick little bastards.

[ZombieNixon]

30. Uhh, actually, that was probably poop.

:D

[Gormy Cuss]

29. They ARE vicious when fighting each other.

I've seen it too.

[Lars39]

34. We have 3 feeders.

And even with 3 feeders a decent amount away from each other,
the little boogers still have horrible fights.
I saw 2 the other day almost do an Annikan-pod-racing maneuver against a tree.

[Fox Mulder]

35. Yeah, they've been doing that all summer long here.

It's kind of amusing, actually. What can I say? I'm 74% evil.

[XemaSab]

36. You're absolutely right

I have seen them rolling around on the ground fighting each other.

I have never seen any two birds of the same species fighting each other like that.

It was unreal.

[ZombieNixon]

37. Dear lord!

I haven't seen that!! :wow:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

38. That's appalling.

Good lord. 0.0

[ZombieNixon]

40. It's just freakin' strange.

:o

[Writer]

39. If you look very closely...

you'll notice that they both carry tiny hummingbird Desert Eagles.