High Speed Video - Flying Hummingbird

[PLovesAnimals]

@HolyHeeroYui its 80

[vercoj]

its clapping



[1800levso]

so this 15 sec video, was actually like a 1/2 of a sec?

[BrendanTaylorrulz]

@1800levso as far as i know yep

[kayleegirl4]

soo cute ^3^

[PSNjizzcake]

Notice the figure 8

[DylanTh3Villian]

That has to be tiring

[pieghost55]

Hello, leaving this comment as I'm a student and have recently used a small part of this video in a multimedia project for one of my classes. If there are any copyright issues regarding this, please get in touch and let me know - thank you.

[Eddieroolz]

impressive evolutionary adaptation!

[pjcareyiii]

nice... these kinds of shots help us understand aerodynamics on a tiny scale... like you can see the birds tail adjusting minutely for the lift on the wings to keep his head steady and his cetner of mass still... great shot!

[ALIENFETUS]

how many fps was this shot at?

[logitech4873]

I'd guess about 2000 fps

[BazzTheBoss]

DUI

[Handit]

getting his drink on

[bak3rw00]

that kinda looks fake but i know its real haha

[cantwhistleforshit]

whats the film speed on this?

[Iegendlol]

Wow that's crazy, even in slow-motion the thing hardly even moves.

[chillinginjp]

googled it... "hummingbirds flap their wings like this on an average of 50 times per second, and during courtship they can flap their wings up to 200 times a second."

[vkotis]

wow!! thats amazing

[mcrRyan809]

they flap their wings 70 times a second

[askaninjafan]

thats preposterous

[sadface0]

your mom's preposterous

[askaninjafan]

thats BLASPHEMY!

[LaneyWales2k8]

He's right, it is slight blasphemy.

[askaninjafan]

it is indeed quite blasphemous if you ask me...

[LaneyWales2k8]

quite, quite.

[cantwhistleforshit]

tally ho

[SleepingLeon]

fail. 40 - 50 times a second

[Stripsils]

-+- = _|_

[credopower11]

that thing can really suck hard!

[FLUTISSIMA]

So beautiful.

[serbmafioso3]

the wings look like theyer goin the regular speed ....that shit is fast

[noelyungboy]

well there was some type of silver humming bird inside my garage that got trapped and then when it gets into the light it has some type of rainbow pattern and then it just kept crashing into my wall, my wall got dents in themn now and then t died the next 2 hours later... i guess from a counsion or a cracked skull because the poor thing was crashing into the wall constantly... i left both garage doors and back and side door open so it can get out but it didnt

[ImGoingInSolo]

The best thing to do is to try and catch the bird cuz hummingbirds waste a lot of energy hovering. Their instinct when trapped is to fly up.

[WetPants08]

Look at its cute lil tongue!

[BulletDoctor]

wow paradox u really had to point all those scientific "methods" of urs? now can u please tell us at what rate (in hundreds of a second) does each wing flap and at what angle, according to the earth's spin axis and gravitational balance?

[HummingbirdSociety]

The wingbeat rate depends primarily on species, and largely the length of the wing. The Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) has a rate of 8-10 per cent, which is slow enough to be visible (I think that 12-16 is the speed at which the eye sees a blur). On the other hand, very small hummers can have rates just over 80 per second. Most US species are in the 40-50 per second range.

[ImGoingInSolo]

Your an ignorant moron the Giant Hummingbird wing beat is around 54-56bps. US species are NOT better than other humming birds

[HummingbirdSociety]

According to Dr. Crawford E. Greenwalt in his book "Hummingbirds" (Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist, 1960, pp. 218), his actual measurments for Patagona gigas (Giant Hummingbird) was a wingbeat of 10 bps--unsurprising because wing length increases with increasing weight, and the mass of the longer wing simply cannot quickly change direction.

And there's no need to resort to name calling when there is a dispute over scientific data...

[sargentsween47]

... ya well according to Dr. Smelly Feet your a faggot

[Ashmann]

Check out how it's break and head are perfectly still. That's impressive!

[PeacefulParadox]

1) A hummingbird absolutely has to beat his wings at such a high rate of speed in order to keep flight.

2) If a hummingbird wasn't able to do this this he couldn't feed on the high sugar nectar from the flowers (which is the only method to fuel the hovering capibilities)

4) A hummingbird can only feed by hovering, and can only hover by feeding on nectar.

[PeacefulParadox]

So my question is about evolution:

How did the hummingbird first develope his high rate flapping without first the ability to reach flowers?

(sort of a, which came first chicken or egg, type of question) =\

[1337ScubaTal]

the egg came first...dinosaurs were around way earlier than the chicken

[rab3003]

Birds were before dinosaurs though so possibly a primative chicken was around before that ?

[willieturnip]

Feathered birds came after dinosaurs..

[HappyFlick]

doesnt 3 usually come after 2?

[SebAlva]

1)2)4)???

[HummingbirdSociety]

Actually, hummingbirds _will_ feed while perched if they have the opportunity, thus saving energy. However, not being able to hover would prevent their accessing most of the flowers that sustain them.

[bearcreak]

wow! thanx. I have a hummingbird that plays in the flowers in front of my office window everyday.

[ARoyalFocker]

Heck I thought you guys were talking about an African Swallow, or was it European?

[southkillsall]

thinkabout it 1000 per second is unrealistic, i looked it up on wikipedia and they flap their wings between 45-60 times per second

[SoraNashimi]

I love hummingbirds :D

[HolyHeeroYui]

"They can move their wings to 50 times per second, no 200, no 1000, no 5000!!"

Geez people, every tried looking it up...? >.>

[Blaxethehedgehog]

@HolyHeeroYui lol i heard it was only up to 200

[oranjeboomo82008]

that bird can move its wings 3000times per sec..

[orangecreme222]

50 times per second.

[Joebert1212]

Loved it.

[naddyloo]

i love hummingbirds! there really odd looking but thats what makes them unique

[quilope]

Hummingbirds are nature's lasers. :|

[aceofstuds666]

are you kidding you cant see their wings in even half life motion

[MKiller5]

lol dude, that kind of birds move their wing over 20 times per sec..

[MKiller5]

lol dude, that kind of birds move their wing over 20 times per sec..

[tommcd]

They can flap their wings up to 200 times a second.

[muddwell]

yeah sure does .. DUMBASS

[ximachimpx]

dude the hummingbirds dont get tired from flaspping there wings so fast, there chest muscles are huge

[frobie54]

And they drink their weight in sugar every day...

[Magnetohydrodynamics]

no, tiwce their weight

[sorcerersinger24601]

nectar not suger, unless its the same. in which case i;m an idiot. :)

[Magnetohydrodynamics]

nectar is about 80-90% sugar i think

[foehammer992]

it is said that if we had a proportionat amount of chest muscles we could bench 3,500 pounds

[66jamie99]

Hmmm Wnt the bird get tired easliy???

[jrodkiller]

wow i like birds in slowmo lol

[Earthtoaster]

hummingbirds wings flap at 200 rps

[blasalb]

rps means rotations per second .. i don't see any rotation ^^ .. oh .. an they variate between species ..from 15 to 100

[b5master]

i think he means repetition.....

[brentswitt]

Revolutions...Start to finish of a cycle. Not always a circular rotation.

[xrockxerx]

thats like 1/1000 of a second slow!!!

[serbmafioso3]

its crazy the humming birds wings are still flaping like a normal speed of a bird even at slow mo

[fivergirl]

cool video, i'm using this as a model for a drawing i have to make of an object in motion.

[candnrg]

Very nice. How many fps did you record at and what camera. (we promote such works)

[Joebert1212]

Great video.

[kevinder101]

i heard that they beat at 1000 times per second

[daxifus]

Depending on the species, it can range from around 15 up to around 80 times per second.

[HotsyWater]

Wow, It's like BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM.....!!!!!

[muddwell]

1000 times per second ? lol .. its a bird not a spacecraft.

[ventusz]

just want to hear how it sounds like :D

bzzzz :D

[saleall]

nature helicopter wing.

[crstardust]

Just amazing beautiful creatures!!!

[jArsenalj]

maquiy

ur a fucking idiot... get a life loser

[llovelyllamallover]

WOW!

[carfirehawk1]

maquiy, ur mom burns with the devil you mother fucker.

[Shibby8]

wow they r so fast it makes the high speed camera blur on the wings

[Burlapin]

Amazing!

[Benson24]

That thing is fast!