Eating Vampire Finch

On two islands in the galapagos these birds eat a typical diet of seeds and nectar.

Eating vampire finch. The favored prey of the vampire finch are the booby species that also live on the same two islands as the vampire finches wolf and darwin island. This bird is most famous for its unusual diet. The booby birds do not resist against this eating behaviour.

Of course even vampire finches probably suffer a little bloodsucking of their own. That s because birds are a favorite meal for mosquitoes. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction as in the case of vampire finches.

When alternative sources are scarce the vampire finch occasionally feeds by drinking the blood of other birds chiefly the nazca and blue footed boobies pecking at their skin with their sharp beaks until blood is drawn. These predators are vampires. But when food supplies get low the.

On one galapagos island isla wolf the vampire finch a sub species of the sharp beaked ground finch jumps on the backs of other birds such as masked boobies and red footed boobies and peck away at their flesh to feed on their blood. The vampire finch evolved this distinguished behaviour to supplement its diet. So you re safe as long as you don t have feathers.

Curiously the boobies do not offer much resistance against this. Vampire finches the vampire finch of the galapagos islands is not as schutt says a card carrying vampire it sups on the red stuff in addition to its regular diet of seeds nectar and eggs. Check out skillshare and get your first 2 months free.

This is a clip from a video made by. Vampire finch sharp billed ground finch feeds on blood of nazca and red footed boobies on wolf island in the galapagos. To feed the finches typically jump on the backs of nazca boobies and pierce a hole near the top of the base of the tail.