Origin
A video that was shared to Reddit in mid-April 2021 showed two hummingbirds clinging to one another as they gradually fell toward the ground.
“Rescuer or attacker?” read a caption laid over the video. “Hummingbird picks up and carries another bird!”
Comments on the video posited various theories, from hypothesizing that the behavior was sexual or perhaps one bird helping a young fledgling that had fallen from the nest. But as it turns out, the behavior was more likely a battle of sibling rivalry. In an email, Geoff LeBaron, director of the Christmas Bird Count at Audubon, told Snopes that the two birds captured on the video were likely immature birds recently out of the nest.
What s True
It is true that a snowy owl was spotted in Central Park on Jan. 27, 2021, making it one of the most recent observations of the species in the area. One of the last and most well-known records of a snowy owl in the park occurred in 1890. What s False
It is not known with certainty whether this is the first spotting of a snowy owl in Central Park in over 130 years. What s Undetermined
Records indicate that a snowy owl was also seen in Central Park on March 6, 1993. However, no observer is listed, making it difficult if not impossible to verify the report.
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It was December, 1925, and a blizzard raged outside Ada Clapham Govan’s Lexington, Massachusetts, window. Somehow, despite the wind, a faint
chickadee-dee-dee reached her ears. The bird’s jaunty call broke through Govan’s despair, and she managed to scatter some breadcrumbs for the storm-tossed visitor clinging to her icy porch rail. It snatched up a few morsels, disappeared briefly, then returned “with every relative and friend” to devour more handfuls of her offerings. “The elation, the spiritual uplift I sensed in that moment,” she later wrote, “marked the re-birth of hope.”
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While some local counts may be cancelled due to regional COVID-19 rules, many community scientists across the hemisphere will carry on one of the longest-running wildlife censuses in a socially.