I found it amazing. Almost unbelievable. BUT..............see here.
Appears also to be a molting (immature?) Anna's killing an adult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MSlJEZrj0
Bob OBrien Portland
On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 5:48 PM Steve Giles <
giles.steve at hotmail.com> wrote:
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Hello all,
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This morning I witnessed a male Anna's hummingbird impaling another male
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Anna's with its beak until it died.
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At about 9 AM I looked out at our feeders and on one of them I saw what
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looked like an Anna's perched on top of something dark and horizontal in
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the channel of the feeder. The perched bird seemed to be stabbing whatever
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it was on with its bill. I looked through my bins and saw that it was
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another hummingbird laying on the feeder being repeatedly stabbed by the
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bird on top of it. Next I slowly walked out to the feeder and got to within
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18 inches of the activity and had close views of one male Anna's
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vigorously impaling another around the head and throat. The attacker was so
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consumed by its efforts that it only spooked when I got within a foot of
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the scene. This all happened in about fifteen minutes. Finally the prone
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bird tumbled off the feeder onto the ground. I later collected it and will
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take it to the Burke Museum.
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Has anyone else seen Anna's aggressive behavior rise to this deadly level?
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Steve Giles
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Camano Island
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