I was having a mini marathon of David Attenborough's BBC Wildlife videos on YouTube when I came across this video about hummingbirds and what they have become in our modern time. I was amazed to learn that hummingbirds are now very much used to the presence of humans, and at some point, human intervention has become a part of their survival.
The clip was focused in Arizona, USA, where one house is located in the migration route of migrating hummingbirds during spring when they take their annual flight from Mexico to the northern part of the United States, as north as Montana up to British Columbia.
These hummingbirds will then go back down to the south when the cold air blows in these parts of the US, where they will be embraced by the warm of the south. Jessie Hendricks is the owner of the house in Arizona that is full of hummingbird feeders hanging all around his house.
Jessie Hendricks managed to put leg rings to some of the hummingbirds so he would know if the same bird visits him every year. When at the peak of the migration, Jessie's house is visited by over 9,000 hummingbirds. His house has become a favorite snack bar of the migrating birds, which is very crucial for them especially if they have to travel from Mexico to Montana on a straight, no-rest flight.
If you want to see the video for yourself, you see watch it here.
