this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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[–] Bananablob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hummingbirds are not silent, they sound like the most gigantic wasp you've ever heard

It's like a two-stroke vertebrate.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They chirp, a lot.

Hummingbirds are territorial little fucks.

[–] duxbellorum@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their brains are in a little fluid filled crash couch so they can slam the face knife repeatedly while their brain just gently jiggles around.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't their tongue wrap around it?

[–] b14700@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

thats the underside of their crash couch

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This person has never been strafed by an angry hummingbird for daring to refill the feeder!

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a hummingbird that isn't angry. Their entire language is just high-pitched invective and curses.

Beautiful creatures, but it's a damn good thing they're so little.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ours strafe us when we forget to refill the feeders, especially in the winter when food is scarce. They fly over 60 mph, so it's pretty scary when they go zipping past, inches from your face.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Shoop-da-whoop: Imma firin mah lazer, blaaaaah

[–] TvanBuuren@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Why am I hearing the hummingbird as a soft spoken Patrick Stuart, and the woodpecker as Eddy Murphy's donkey?

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Woodpeckers simply peg the tree

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Woodpeckers are the Robertos of the bird world.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do people have to use crypto as a prefix for everything?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when they want to suggest something is hidden?

Are you sure?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is this a Kyle Kinane joke? Why did my mind immediately make it into his voice and delivery?