Two birds in the hand?

I had no idea hummingbirds live only in the Americas! I just saw one yesterday here in Seattle. The first time I heard one, in Florida, I thought it was a huge flying insect, because Florida.

@SistaWendy. "Because Florida" lolllllllllllllllllll

SatW the ONLY webcomics whose replies are ALWAYS as good as the comic itself. You read the comic of the day and spend half an hour expending your knowledge learning from around the world. HIGH FIVE!!!

We HAVE hummingbirds here and I'm still envious of places that have WAY MORE hummingbirds

And Canadian are jealous of both because we’re stuck with the Canadian geese

Oh man, if y'all only knew what *THUGS* hummingbirds are! They're mean little bastards when they feel like it, and they fight some amazing aerial battles over their feeders, and they can be totally vicious if they spot a cat. I sometimes wonder if there are any one-eyed cats out there with a deep-rooted fear of hummingbirds. I like them, though.

@Ysabet Tiny, adorable, fearless little hover-dinosaurs. There’s a very good reason the ancient Aztecs believed hummingbirds were the reincarnation of warriors who died in battle (and women who died in childbirth) and made it a symbol of their chief god of war, Huitzilopochtli.

@Amberglas Very good point! I know that they called the human heart "Hummingbird On The Left," presumably because of how it constantly moved. I live in Arizona, and the local hummers (mostly Anna's, Broadbilled, tons of Costas and the occasional Lucifer) fight daily pitched battles over the feeder in my backyard. They'll dive at me if I'm near it, buzz around me to get a good look and then zoom off and hover about ten feet away to wait for me to leave. We have a HUGE hummer population here, and you're totally right to call them hover-dinosaurs. If you really want to attract them around here and you're out hiking, you wear something red; most of their desert nectar-bearing flowers are red, so they'll come to take a look.

Hummingbirds are cute, we have them even in the streets

The bee fly looks weird but cute

Two things of note:
1) I had never even heard of beeflies/bomberflies before today. This part is relevant:
"In nine subfamilies ... the females often do not land at all during host burrow inspections, and will proceed to release their eggs from midair by quick flicks of the abdomen while hovering over the burrow's entrance. This remarkable behavior has earned such species the colloquial name of Bomber flies..."

Nature, you are so freaking awesome.

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJGNmgy676I -- Two minutes of your life well spent.

Hummingbirds (in Spanish called "colibríes", "picaflores", "chupaflores") are indeed beautiful.

About Brother Colombia, Is there anyway to put his hat this way? https://www.sombrerosdepaja.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Beautiful-Colombian-Sombrero-Vueltiao-Made-By-Colombian-Artisans.jpg... I know, I know it's quite intrincate, but maybe you could put a simpler version; the plain white hat looks kinda strange on Brother Colombia.

And I stan hummingbird insects! Any kind of them, bees, moths, any!

@derkozten

They're called "kolibri" in finnish, too. Must be a derivation.

Aren't beeflies those bees that lay their larvae inside other bees?

@DrFoggyPants
In their burrows, actually.
I think I know what you're talking about, but the name eacapes me..

@DrFoggyPants Those are Cuckoo Bee's or Parasitic Bee's.

This is sort of off topic...

Petition to get avatar changing thing fixed??

@ABCEastPonymon I'm sure they will fix it one day though you can try asking about it in the forums under feedback.
I want it fixed too I miss seeing users with avatars, and as much I like my avatar it would be nice to be able to change it if I like

@ABCEastPonymon
It'll be in @Dayvi 's to-do list