sad birdie update

[merchimerch]

I wish I knew more about hummingbird child rearing practice - do they practice infanticide? 2 days ago I started noticing only one little beak in the nest, then confirmed that one wasn't hiding when the came to the nest to feed and only fed the one little beak. The winds have been high, could the other one have fallen out? Could it have been gotten by a predator? I think it is the big bird of the pair still in the nest, so I don't think it is that one got ready to fly away and managed to do it before the other one. I'm sad for the birdie and also wonder if it was infanticide since the nest was getting SO crowded - was there some kind of selection so that the remaining birdie could have space to grow?

....of to google hummingbirds....

Comments

[fangaili.livejournal.com]

Oh that is sad.. I've heard of that happening, but from where I do not remember.