Yellow-breasted birds defending their nest 🪹 🐣

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Greetings friends 🐦 I hope you are well! Today was a somewhat dramatic Sunday in the garden of my home, I was quietly sweeping the leaves in the yard, when suddenly many birds began to screech in unison, which I found very peculiar... I notice that on the tree I am cleaning on its branches are the birds popularly called in my country as "Cristofué" also known as yellow-breasted birds Pintangus Sulphuratus... I like these birds very much because they are not afraid of humans and they come quite close to where you are, here in the garden there are quite a few of them and they have their nests in the tree...

Me watching the nest...


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First images of the birds observing their nests

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I noticed that there was a couple apparently living in the nest, that's the first thing I noticed, around them there were other birds and they were all screeching in unison and the atmosphere was tense because it was like an alert, I didn't quite understand what exactly was going on, I even noticed a blue bird and they were all very attentive to that nest.

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After I have been observing the situation for a while, I am surprised! The birds begin to attack an animal that was in the nest, I begin to observe something that slowly appears in a very striking green colour, the birds flutter around it and it is out of control? My first impression was one of fright because I thought it was a snake, thank goodness I was wrong and it was another reptilian animal.

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It was a baby iguana that was inside the nest of those birds, I really didn't expect that, everything became a total drama because I couldn't help at all and I just watched how the birds were defending themselves.

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Birds clawing at the iguana

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No matter how much they hit its face, the iguana was still, it didn't move from the nest, it was quite stressful, they lasted more than an hour at that.

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They kept screaming, at one point I moved the tree branch a bit and the iguana would come down but after a few minutes it would return to where it was, at one point the birds got tired and apparently went to another nest just above in the next tree.... It was a singular experience today Sunday that left me amazed and I was able to take these pictures with my compact camera, to tell you the story....

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These are very powerful birds, they defend their territory a lot, but they are small, so there are animals that sometimes beat them in brute force... I hope they have found a place to sleep.

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Thank you very much for reading and watching my pictures, see you soon! alt