Date: 6/16/26 1:22 pm From: Kersti Muul via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] territorial Rufous hummers
I have had multiple similar experiences with *Anna's on Anna's *aggression - both male and female, fledgling on adult, adult on fledgling and nestling, as well as adult *Rufous on Anna's *aggression.
-Anna's males attacking Anna's nestlings and grounded fledglings.
-Rufous females attacking adult Anna's in Anna's nesting territory.
-Anna's juvenile male attacking his own mother, taking her to the ground, pinning her to ground via toe claw in her eye and repeatedly stabbing her in the chest, resulting in puncture wound.
-Adult Anna's female went in for antibiotics after retrieved from cat mouth, gone from her territory for 3 hours. Came back and another female had already attempted to claim. She attacked other female immediately after her release, knocking her to the ground. She weakly flew back up and perched on a branch. The interloper began a vicious aerial assault beating her with her beak for several minutes. She ultimately hung upside down and went into torpor - the assault continued. I thought she was a goner. Next morning she was outside the bedroom window alive and well. The same cat got the interloper and was not so lucky. Irony.
*Hummingbirds spend a lot of time on the ground when fighting, and cats/predators notice - a prime opportunity to catch the otherwise evasive birds. FYI*
