Why Do Birds Get Excited When Eggs Hatch?
Witness the unusual phenomenon of birds getting excited when seeing their newborns for the first time. Species such as Blue Tits and Great tits flap their wings in what appears to be excitement when observing their eggs hatch. It’s something that can’t be explained.
Our worldwide platform of live-streaming nest box cameras often delivers strange and unexplained behaviours in birds. On several occasions, we have witnessed birds appearing excited when seeing their chicks for the first time. This unusual behaviour cannot be explained, and there is little information about it in books or the Internet. The ‘wing-flapping’ happens when one of the parent birds, we assume the female, sees the newborns. This could be a sign of excitement, but could it mean something else? Could it signal the Male to find food or a display of dominance? We are unsure and would welcome your suggestions in the comments below.
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Maybe to dry their down feathers? Some birds throw their weak babies out of the nest, and even worse, will have “extra” chicks to use as an emergency food source….eating it alive and feeding it to the other hatchlings. Hatchlings will also eat siblings, but usually only if it died. I learned this the hard way while watching a bird nesting my garage on a shelf between a box and an old cuckoo clock. I went to check on the babies one day, and was horrified to find one of them tangled in some kind of fiber from the nest. The fiber also caught on the edge of the clock, and the baby was dangling, scalp torn off so that the skull was exposed…. The body was ripped open at the tummy area, and all of the internal organs were gone. A leg was pulled off, and tangled in the thread too, dangling a little lower than the body. One morning, a baby was just gone from the nest. I didn’t see any body anywhere, so I assume they ate it and mom flew the carcass away. She likely tried to get rid of the other one, but couldn’t free it. I couldn’t break that little string either… had to cut it. Birds are probably used to predators eating their babies/eggs. A few species do seem to mourn by circling bodies for hours… most just move on with life.
Couldn’t it be that it’s a way to keep the chicks warm? Just saying… 😊
Yeah but then why does only the female do it? BOTH sexes of humans will sometimes celebrate by waving their hands, yet only female birds do it, that's where the analogy fails.