Hummingbird Defending Eggs From Lizard - March 16, 2010

http://phoebeallens.com/
Hummingbird mother bravely defends her eggs from a lizard. She then returns and removes a nonviable egg from the nest.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Hummingbird
• Nest
• Egg
• Eggs
• Lizard

[crawdadjoe]

How high up off the ground was it? Wow...would never guess alligator lizards would cimb up and eat hummer eggs. Where was this shot?

[Pungh0li0]

@crawdadjoe It is in a rose bush in Southern California... about 6 or 7 feet off the ground. I've added the link in the info below the video if you want to watch her. Or google Phoebe Allens.

[rajivgo]

one question i got a hummingbird nest here in singapore outside my hdb flat plant and the female hummingbird laid two eggs about two weeks ago..about a day ago i realised that there is just one egg there and the female hummingbird has not come back at her nest ard(6pm evening) daily anymore..has she abandoned the nest or has she done exactly the same thing in this video to save the other egg(place it somewhere safer or smth.. any idea??thanks if there is any response from yah guys..

[Pungh0li0]

@rajivgo Sorry, there aren't hummingbirds in Singapore. Could it be a Sunbird(Nectariniidae)? If there is an egg missing and she hasn't returned then it is probably abandoned.

[oh2love4love]

hi, wondering what she did with the egg i saw her snatch up at the end? :)

thanks for posting this and for your live webcam.. very cool indeed!

[Pungh0li0]

@oh2love4love She flipped it out of the nest with her beak.

[DataDame]

My guess on this one has always been that the egg she destroyed had already become non-viable, and was beginning to attract preditors/carrion feeders (like the lizard?), so getting rid of it was the natural thing to do.

[pbsjones]

The egg was not viable. The tiny hole appeared in it two or three days before this video. If the chick was going to hatch, it would have happened by now. Sad for us, natural for the rest of the animal kingdom.

[DinoKillaful]

Lizard hers humming.....

Lizard: OH CRAP SHE'S BACK!!!

[Ramonerdna]

Lol I saw a hummingbird in my yard defend its nest from lizards, only thing is the lizards weren't really that close to her nest (some of them weren't even on the same tree), and they were much smaller...maybe my hummingbird is just a bully?

[MusicLuver434]

I caught that kind of lizard, but couldn't keep it :'(

[E90PAT]

@Pungh0li0 why?!

[Elousiechua]

there are humming birds in singapore :D i saw them :D