We've all probably seen videos of mama birds feeding their young. From the filmstrips and movies we watched in science class as kids to documentaries and nature shows, everyone has a pretty good understanding of how baby birds get their nourishment. But I'm here to tell you that you have never seen a mother bird feeding her baby like this before.
In this short clip from the film Secret Life of Trees, by nature filmmakers Saturnina and Artur Homan, you will see the most beautiful, mesmerizing moment between a mother hoopoe and its hungry baby. Filmed in super-slow-motion, the mother-baby food exchange becomes one of the most amazing things you've ever seen.
If you're unfamiliar with the hoopoe, it's an absolutely beautiful bird. Colorful (the hoopoes in this video are orange-brown with black stripes) and graceful with a spiky crown of feathers atop their heads, the hoopoe is found throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia. In fact, the hoopoe is actually the national bird of Israel, and it's just an amazingly cool species.
Homan's astonishing video gives us several different angles that show the mother hoopoe swooping in with what appears to be a grasshopper in her beak. Slowing down her flight, she sticks the grasshopper right into her baby's beak before it's quickly gobbled up as nourishment for its growing hoopoe body.
The slow motion aspect is what really turns this video into something special. Just being able to see the hoopoe's flight in that kind of detail, as it whips its wings back and forth, all while keeping its head perfectly still, is something I've never seen before. It's just breathtaking.
What an amazing thing to share between mother and baby, and what a cool way to see it all happen.
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