As the great ZeFrank once said: "Try riding a bicycle at night and picking up a burrito with your feet based on the sound that it makes. *That is how an Owl do."*
Took ornithology classes and read a lot of bird-related literature. Was impressed at how informative and accurate this video was. 👌 ... And despite what I’ve stated above, I’ve still never heard of ptarmigan snowshoes. Double impressed. 👌👌
Birds are so cool. Just spending a few minutes watching them fly around, being cute, and chirping ( or screeching) is fun! Thanks for this interesting videos about feathers!
How could you bring up the ear tufts and not mention that they are called Plumicorns? Also, they're used in fear and aggression displays, anyone who works with owls can tell you that one.
*_...feathers are also useful for autorotation, bouncing off picture windows, hightailing to run faster without taking off, creating softer shadows while flying close to the ground... and are probably also good for feeling micro turbulence for flying more efficiently..._*
8. Mocking birds are generally gray in color. But under each wing the feather patterns have a bright white stripe. When they walk along the ground hunting grasshoppers, they will quickly flick both wings up exposing these stripes and scaring the bugs off their resting spot. The mockingbird sees the hopping bug and instantly snatches it from the air. :)
Humming birds sound like an angry bee. I thought it was a bee or wasp when I had one smack into me in my garden, when I looked out at my garden from the window, I noticed it was a bird.
AFAIK, they serve at least 3 more purposes: Temperature control Trapping poisons (discarding them by dropping the feathers) Protection against physical damage.
Two birds in the woods, bird one asks "is this a birch or a beech?" bird two answers "that's the best piece of ash you'll ever stick your pecker in". I'll be here all week!
Sometimes when I went out the door to go to school in the morning as a kid, I’d scare a bunch of partridges out of the cherry tree in our front yard, and they were LOUD AF when they took off. Spooked me every time. So their feathers were great at producing adrenaline to wake you up!
For number 5, is it possible that it just reduces glare and makes it easier to pinpoint fish? Like when you're trying to see in a window and you try and shadow it around your face so that the reflections don't make it really hard to see.
Um...so, whoa! This was awesome. The grebe use was pretty nuts. And feather feets look and sound adorable. But the research clearly involved to write these videos are always outstanding. I love this channel.
For viewers in western North America or northern Europe, snipe (closely related to the woodcock) make a similar noise :) Male broad-tailed hummingbirds also make a distinctive trill with their feathers -- comparable in tone to a cricket chirp, but much longer, and it tends to "fade" in and out as they fly around.
I love those ridges on owls wing fronts that break up the airflow and silence it. Not only because of the incredible idea by mother nature but because when I was kid, the BMW M3 had those on both mirrors as the first car ever and I remember me and others just in awe of the amazing mimikry of nature making it into a street legal car. Also, it worked PERFECTLY...
One of the older benefits humans have gained from feathers: the quill pen. A skilled illuminator, using a hand-carved quill pen, can make maps and pictures that are unmatched in their beauty and complexity, even when compared to their digital counterparts.
We have a TV screen in the main room at my school and while I was waiting to get on the bus I noticed they were playing a scishow video on it. I was so happy.
As someone who did not grow up on Hank Green but now follows him on Tiktok, it was a bit of a jumpscare to see him on this random video about birds I clicked on until I remembered youtube came first
Very cool video! I work with birds and enjoy nerding about them, but I've only heard of three of these seven obscure feather uses. It's so amazing how animals will do whatever works to survive. They don't read our textbooks about what feathers are "supposed" to do.
A Blue Heron once told me that his cousin, Black Heron, makes a feather canopy or fishing hut with it's feathers to block the Sun's reflection so it could see into the water better.
The most notable and popular kinds of feathers are pinions(the stiffer, large ones mostly on the wings and tails; Next is down, the smaller, soft feather usually on the underside.
I wonder if the rumors about the winged hussars are true, the story goes that their combined wings made a terrifyingly loud whistling noise as they rode to frighten the enemy's horses.
Wouldn't it be logical for fish to hide under the canopy or foliage from predators? I think that African bird is taking advantage of the fishes tactics to hide under foliage for less visablity.. That's why bird trying to mimic leaves. If fish always hides under the birds "foliage" and gets eaten it won't be able to pass genes to stay away from leaves or something to that degree. I'm not sure how intelligent these fish are. does field biologist not investigate further because of other more dangerous species near or in the water? Just a educated guess.
Leba Babel you are definitely on to something, and keep in mind that behaviors don’t have to work (or fail) 100% of the time to be passed on (or not passed on). The behavior only needs to convey an advantage more often than not, so if shade is usually a safe place to hide (or stay cool, or whatever the mechanism is) the fact that sometimes it’s a trap doesn’t mean that there is selective pressure for the fish to change behavior.
Noted. The video and questions ask why the bird covers itself. If it's trying to keep itself cool why would it shade itself in the water then rather bathe in it like most birds? Maybe it's trying to hide itself from competing birds who are after the same food? If I am flying high above and I see a bird feeding, "oh there's must be food by that area or I'm gonna steal it.
So this is a question I've had in my head for a while. When did the proboscis evolve, I mean obviously when flowers arrive but my question is when bees and butterflies got them. These are 2 very different groups but hyminoptera have both the proboscis and other mouthparts in their group. So where butterflies once part of that group and evolved of is the fact that both groups of bugs have proboscis a form of convergent evolution?
#5, as someone who grew up playing in a river alot I would guess the herrons create this shade to reduce glare to see in the water more clearly. In rivers every ripple made by the current had a small glare. Removing the sun every ripple and wave disappears and its like looking through glass.
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"Don't be ridiculous!"
-Balki Bartokomous
As the great ZeFrank once said:
"Try riding a bicycle at night and picking up a burrito with your feet based on the sound that it makes.
*That is how an Owl do."*
Truly one of the greatest educational minds of youtube. So inspiring.
Don't forget, "If silence were loudness, owls would be the loudest flying bird."
Don't forget owl's talons are uniquely adapted to picking up stuff so a more accurate comparison would be picking it up with your hands
HOW DARE U!!!!!!!!!!! U missed a "
~standing ovation~
Took ornithology classes and read a lot of bird-related literature. Was impressed at how informative and accurate this video was. 👌
... And despite what I’ve stated above, I’ve still never heard of ptarmigan snowshoes. Double impressed. 👌👌
Bird person would've approved that...
Have you heard the news? It is of a certain...ornithological variety
B b b bird is the word
Nice malfestio profile pic
Birds are so cool. Just spending a few minutes watching them fly around, being cute, and chirping ( or screeching) is fun! Thanks for this interesting videos about feathers!
I agree. Brids make me very horny as well.
FLUFFY PUFFY BURB
Birds aren’t real
How could you bring up the ear tufts and not mention that they are called Plumicorns? Also, they're used in fear and aggression displays, anyone who works with owls can tell you that one.
*_...feathers are also useful for autorotation, bouncing off picture windows, hightailing to run faster without taking off, creating softer shadows while flying close to the ground... and are probably also good for feeling micro turbulence for flying more efficiently..._*
6:45
_Night time..._
_DAY TIME!_
No, it is playing hide and seek!
Nice to know I'm not the only one who went strait to this video when he talked about black herons.
basically using dark theme in the middle of sunlight
OMFG THAT PTARMIGAN IS ADORABLE AND IT'S MY NEW FAVORITE BIRD AAAHHHHHHH!!!!! 😱😍😂
It's so round!
Loved the audio that you guys put, as demonstrations!
See, that's where you're wrong, Hank. The Black Heron doesn't use its feathers for fishing, but in fact, for playing "NIGHTTIME, DAYTIME".
8. Mocking birds are generally gray in color. But under each wing the feather patterns have a bright white stripe. When they walk along the ground hunting grasshoppers, they will quickly flick both wings up exposing these stripes and scaring the bugs off their resting spot. The mockingbird sees the hopping bug and instantly snatches it from the air. :)
Humming birds sound like an angry bee. I thought it was a bee or wasp when I had one smack into me in my garden, when I looked out at my garden from the window, I noticed it was a bird.
You forgot the most useful use of feather.
Tickling your friends
But steel is heavier than feathers?
Nope, 1kg of steel is lighter than 2kgs of feathers.
But steel is heavier than feathers?
They’re both a kilogram. (Read: kilagrem)
Abdel aziz habiba swoosh
Mattias Niels yes, a pound of steel _IS_ heavier than a pound of feathers. ;)
AFAIK, they serve at least 3 more purposes:
Temperature control
Trapping poisons (discarding them by dropping the feathers)
Protection against physical damage.
Why do hummingbirds hum?
Because they don’t know the words.
They USED TO know the words, but because of evolution they forgot them.
Bird jokes really ruffle my feathers!
Perplexion Dangerman also hummingbirds are the shark of the sky
Ptarmigans are now my favorite bird
Since they don't have hands, they use their feathers to operate cellphones.
How else are they going to tweet?
What kind of cellphones work for bird feather touch screens?
Cellphones are operated by Androids, everyone knows that.
Allen Qiu
The Apple owlPhone is very popular.
Their cell phones were canceled. You can see it on their bill.
I'm sorry about the pun-ishment.
(dodges tomato)
I'm here every Sunday.
(waves)
Thank you aaaaand G'nite.
Two birds in the woods, bird one asks "is this a birch or a beech?" bird two answers "that's the best piece of ash you'll ever stick your pecker in". I'll be here all week!
Sometimes when I went out the door to go to school in the morning as a kid, I’d scare a bunch of partridges out of the cherry tree in our front yard, and they were LOUD AF when they took off. Spooked me every time.
So their feathers were great at producing adrenaline to wake you up!
For number 5, is it possible that it just reduces glare and makes it easier to pinpoint fish? Like when you're trying to see in a window and you try and shadow it around your face so that the reflections don't make it really hard to see.
DysnomiaFilms yes, he mentioned glare
Spectacular shirt Hank
It truly is a thing of beauty!
Hank is daddy
Yeah, he looks like a dad
@@fabulouzpizza55- Omg I just laughed so hard! Great reply!
Um...so, whoa! This was awesome. The grebe use was pretty nuts. And feather feets look and sound adorable. But the research clearly involved to write these videos are always outstanding. I love this channel.
I love birds!! Thank you for posting a bird-related video!
Who knew they had feathers?
Not me
THEY? I'm scared now.
Actually scientific consensus is moving more and more towards the theory that birds do indeed have feathers and always have.
Who else loves it more than anything when Hankie hosts? ♥
Just me? Ok.
I love feathers! And I love birds! And I think from his way Hanks bird would be a Kakapo!😁
Me: _I'm a mature science enthusiast._
Also: 1:49 _pfft_
For viewers in western North America or northern Europe, snipe (closely related to the woodcock) make a similar noise :) Male broad-tailed hummingbirds also make a distinctive trill with their feathers -- comparable in tone to a cricket chirp, but much longer, and it tends to "fade" in and out as they fly around.
round snow birds with natural snowshoes is one of the most amazing things ive heard in a while
Ah but they thought they were being cool, not wacky.... *HAWKWARD*
A hawk is a bird, I think🙄
Aspect Science
I hope they don't do something they'll egret.
Cosmic Calamity it *soared* right over your head.
Bird puns really ruffle my feathers!
@@existenceisillusion6528
Mean and unfunny
Cool! I love dinosaurs!
1:06 I must have binged too much birb videos I think I heard peekaboo
I love those ridges on owls wing fronts that break up the airflow and silence it.
Not only because of the incredible idea by mother nature but because when I was kid, the BMW M3 had those on both mirrors as the first car ever and I remember me and others just in awe of the amazing mimikry of nature making it into a street legal car. Also, it worked PERFECTLY...
One of the older benefits humans have gained from feathers: the quill pen. A skilled illuminator, using a hand-carved quill pen, can make maps and pictures that are unmatched in their beauty and complexity, even when compared to their digital counterparts.
The umbrella technique is amazing ! Thanks for the video
We have a TV screen in the main room at my school and while I was waiting to get on the bus I noticed they were playing a scishow video on it. I was so happy.
As someone who did not grow up on Hank Green but now follows him on Tiktok, it was a bit of a jumpscare to see him on this random video about birds I clicked on until I remembered youtube came first
As a bird lover I love this!!!!!!!!
Please tell me I wasn't the only one who saw the Black Heron and immediately thought "night time, DAY TIME!"
Anyone? No? Okay never mind....
You weren't the only one xD
Birds are awesome, beautiful and everything that can fit in between.
Thanks for keeping me entertained while also helping me learn SciShow!
Very cool video! I work with birds and enjoy nerding about them, but I've only heard of three of these seven obscure feather uses. It's so amazing how animals will do whatever works to survive. They don't read our textbooks about what feathers are "supposed" to do.
Parrots have been known to use their moulted feathers as scratching tools, and its adorable.
Love when these are about a topic which I didn't realize there was so much to learn about!
Feathers are a ticklish subject.
birbs are the best
This was an interesting and cute episode
Thank you!
A Blue Heron once told me that his cousin, Black Heron, makes a feather canopy or fishing hut with it's feathers to block the Sun's reflection so it could see into the water better.
GREAT video, Hank! I love birds and there is always so much more to learn about them. I currently have ten birds.
does the crows in my neighbourhood droping nuts on the road until a car cracks it open counts as using tools?
Us stupid humans are the tools. 👀
What amazing intelligent design!
5.08 he is referring to a study were they shaved a barn owls face lol. Just to find out if it helps with hunting.
Brutal!
I'm not even five minutes in and already I've learned that feathers can be used to make sound. Once again scishow surprises me.
Bird snow-shoes. How. Friggin'. Adorable.
The most notable and popular kinds of feathers are pinions(the stiffer, large ones mostly on the wings and tails; Next is down, the smaller, soft feather usually on the underside.
Sorry I'm late, migration traffic was OWLful
Amazing about the 7 ridges thanks
The umbrella-y one seems to me to clearly be shielding the light reflecting off the surface of the water from his eyes to see better
What does Hank's T-Shirt says/where can I get it?
Orwell's bowling alley?
I dnt understand why they even have other narrators for this channel just have this dude do them all.
That was awesome. I like birds. I have a lot of bird sounds as ringtones on my phone.
Hank is the best
Awesome vid, I love birds!
Thank you
I wonder if the rumors about the winged hussars are true, the story goes that their combined wings made a terrifyingly loud whistling noise as they rode to frighten the enemy's horses.
I want a part 2
do a video on convergent evolution.
The Feathers keep them Warm and insulated in Snowy weather as well!
Very cool. Nature is amazing!!
Wouldn't it be logical for fish to hide under the canopy or foliage from predators? I think that African bird is taking advantage of the fishes tactics to hide under foliage for less visablity.. That's why bird trying to mimic leaves. If fish always hides under the birds "foliage" and gets eaten it won't be able to pass genes to stay away from leaves or something to that degree. I'm not sure how intelligent these fish are. does field biologist not investigate further because of other more dangerous species near or in the water? Just a educated guess.
Leba Babel you are definitely on to something, and keep in mind that behaviors don’t have to work (or fail) 100% of the time to be passed on (or not passed on). The behavior only needs to convey an advantage more often than not, so if shade is usually a safe place to hide (or stay cool, or whatever the mechanism is) the fact that sometimes it’s a trap doesn’t mean that there is selective pressure for the fish to change behavior.
Noted. The video and questions ask why the bird covers itself. If it's trying to keep itself cool why would it shade itself in the water then rather bathe in it like most birds?
Maybe it's trying to hide itself from competing birds who are after the same food? If I am flying high above and I see a bird feeding, "oh there's must be food by that area or I'm gonna steal it.
It’s so cool how birds can fly
_COOL SHIRT_
Now which feathers are best for pillows? I don't like the pokey ones.
Hank is always enthusiastic, but he really digs feathers😄
I love birbs ^-^ thanks for this interesting video!
So this is a question I've had in my head for a while. When did the proboscis evolve, I mean obviously when flowers arrive but my question is when bees and butterflies got them. These are 2 very different groups but hyminoptera have both the proboscis and other mouthparts in their group. So where butterflies once part of that group and evolved of is the fact that both groups of bugs have proboscis a form of convergent evolution?
Damn ptarmigans be growing they own air force 1s for the summer
Penguins appear to use their rear feathers to trap air, then release that air for a short burst of speed. Like a turbo.
WE MISS U HANK 😘😘😍
The one you called a black heron looks a lot like the little blue heron, which I see in Florida doing the same thing.
#5, as someone who grew up playing in a river alot I would guess the herrons create this shade to reduce glare to see in the water more clearly. In rivers every ripple made by the current had a small glare. Removing the sun every ripple and wave disappears and its like looking through glass.
Never realized feathers are so useful.
Pretty sure "shade fishing" is about cutting surface reflection so they can see into the water
3:25 Wind turbans? That's a weird mental image!
3:24 "Wind turbans" XD
You can attach feathers to arrows and make them fly straight through anything.
Yeah I get notified 2 days after this video is released
How did you miss the sound the make turkey makes with their tail feathers???
To get their revenge by poking you in the eye when their feathers have been used to stuff pillows.
Raptors are awesome
Who knew Herons were such shade throwers!
I remember finding small feathers in a duck's gizzard
I think I have a new favorite bird, ptarmigans are so cute
...random question. Where is your profile picture from? I recognize it but can't recall and it's driving me crazy
Cats an feline get fur balls due to licking their fur. Do birds get feather balls?
Well, grebes do.
5:30
What about they use them as stress toys by plucking them out I know some birds do it
These birds got no chill.
3:25 he says wind turbans hahahaha
3:25 - "wind turbans"?
Peacocks and turkeys make sound by shaking their tail feathers. But they're not as clever as the birds that do it like crickets.