How To Use Hummingbird In A Sentence
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The front was embossed with a teal hummingbird sitting on a tie-dyed tree stump.
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From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings.
Birdology
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Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
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Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
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It is probably a hummingbird clearwing Hemaris thysbe.
Clearwing moth from the sidewalk
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The Arts Centre was planning to promote local-based talent and bridge the gap between pub gigs and the 3,000 capacity Hummingbird venue.
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The robot, a similar size to a real hummingbird, is equipped with a micro motor and four wings that can flap 30 times per second, said Hiroshi Liu, the researcher at Chiba University east of Tokyo.
Score one for modeling on nature
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On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogon, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
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Hummingbirds favored the maguey cactus, and people who extracted the plant's sap were also known as hummingbirds.
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A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant.
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You could plant some tall growers, such as Cleome hasslerana, which is a favorite of hummingbirds, and at their feet cluster a few dwarf dahlias and some alyssum, which are easily grown in planters.
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Most North Americans are familiar with either the ruby-throated hummingbird, east of the Rocky Mountains, or the rufous hummingbird, west of the Rockies.
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Clearly this is still one of the most important, if not the most important factor controlling bill shape, otherwise we wouldn't have curlews, ibises, sword-billed hummingbirds, flamingos, crossbills, or all those oystercatcher polymorphs.
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The nectarivorous hummingbirds evolved a derived mode of hovering flight that allows them to remain virtually motionless in front of flowers.
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Yet more of them leap up ever higher, their legs scissoring the air as they hover like so many hummingbirds in baggy T-shirts and tights, and a dozen or so pirouette dizzyingly, like human spinning tops.
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It was not merely the earthquake at Chiloe, the Galapagos hummingbirds, it was five years hurling over the side of the ship and groaning ‘oh God!’ with no result.
Science
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In warm weather a mister will be attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies too!
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The wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous.
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The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren.
Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)
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When taking nectar, hummingbirds contacted anthers, receiving pollen on their bill.
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It even had a name, set in wrought iron letters above the closed-in driveway doors: "Casona de Tzintzuntzan", "the manor house in the place where the hummingbirds gather".
Renovating our Morelia house
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Hummingbirds are the most adept aerialists of all birds and the only ones capable of sustained hovering.
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He makes a hummingbird look positively torpid.
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The foliage is delightful, and hummingbirds enjoy sipping nectar from its smaller flowers.
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Honeybees (the few that have so far escaped the Varroa mites), bumblebees, various flies and beetles, and the hummingbird clearwing (a moth that thinks it's a hummingbird) frequent milkweeds too.
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Hummingbirds often pick up nectar mites when they visit flowers.
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A ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings 50 to 70 times per second.
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The manakins vibrate their wings at more than 100 cycles per second, twice the speed of hummingbirds.
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When nectar resources are scarce, hummingbirds will also feed on sap from holes in trees made by sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus).
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Mountain ashes, crabapple trees, and a pear tree provide fruit in season, while trumpet vines and such flowering perennials as penstemon and sage supply nectar that sustains hummingbirds.
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Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.
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Flowerbeds where bees vie with hummingbirds for honey offer unmatched opportunity to observe sylphs.
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He developed high-speed photography, which could freeze a hummingbird in mid-flight or a splash of milk.
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A local guide took us out the first morning for a half-day of birding, including a visit to a lek of performing green hermit hummingbirds, and then got us on our way to the Canopy Tower, a short distance north of the city.
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Birders plan their vacations around the northern extent of the trogon (Chiricauhuas) or where to see 47 varieties of hummingbirds (Ramsey Canyon).
Mjh's blog — 2006 — February
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In comments I admitted I had a hummingbird spirit but was striving to learn owlish ways.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline
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A few species of hummingbirds and European Starling are known to produce UV hues with coherently scattering melanin arrays in feather barbules.
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These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
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As you make ready to enter, the direct-lift machine does not touch the ground; it poises motionless under its whirling rotor blades like a gigantic hummingbird.
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Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on.
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All this happened because you were flitting around like a hummingbird.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Some of the most notable bird species of the 112 that have been recorded include Gurney's buzzard Buteo poecilochrous, Andean condor Vultur gryphus, giant hummingbird Patagona gigas peruviana, giant coot Fulica gigantea, and ornate tinamou Nothoprocta ornata.
Huascaran National Park, Peru
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Despite their size, hummingbirds are aggressive and will fiercely defend their territory from other species as well as other hummingbirds.
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It's known for its great birdlife, with many small flocks of colourful scarlet-bellied mountain tanagers and sword-billed hummingbirds.
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Hummingbirds can flap their wings up to 80 times per second.
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The hummingbird beats its wings at great speed.
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The little hummingbirds beat their wings faster and their flight is even more graceful than normal.
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His mind darted like a hummingbird, inquisitive and restless.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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In our grief we hover with the hummingbirds: We are spinning on a paused world gone over to itinerant echo.
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Even though they have small flowers, hummingbirds like heucheras.
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And of course, today we have such adept flyers as the swallows, hummingbirds, falcons, and the soaring albatrosses which demonstrate the great diversity of flight adaptations in birds.
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Twice a year, rufous hummingbirds travel 2,500 miles between Central America and Alaska.
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The principal characteristic that sets hummingbirds apart from all other birds is their mode of flight.
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If you want to lure woodpeckers, hummingbirds, or orioles to your yard, invest in specialized feeders.
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Nectar-producing plants are very popular for attracting hummingbirds and orioles.
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About 9% of the extant flora is hummingbird pollinated and it is estimated that around 47% are wind pollinated.
Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
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Other flowers attract hummingbirds with color; such flowers tend to be red, have symmetrical tubular flowers, and provide a heavy nectar flow.
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Skippers, bumblebees and hummingbirds know which garden they prefer: They'll flock to a yard full of colorful, nectar-rich flowers.
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For bird species we can cite the red and blue macaw, the brown-throated parakeet, the king vulture, the white bellbird, the hummingbird, and capuchin bird.
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My mornings were made particularly special by visits from hummingbirds and cheeky monkeys stealing bananas from my tree.
The Sun
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There are many wild birds that don't use nestboxes, such as doves, cardinals, orioles, hummingbirds, just to name a few.
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As I type, a hummingbird is feasting at the honeysuckle outside my window.
Entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day
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Birds that may visit mangrove communities include Amazona autumnalis, scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds.
Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
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During the day, various treks are offered into the jungle, though I suspect the chances of actually seeing a tapir or a jaguar are as slim as a hummingbird's beak.
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I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline
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Until the invention of the stroboscope, scientists could not understand how hummingbirds hover.
Birdology
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Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
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This biomimetic windmill sports 19-ft. wings of aluminum and carbon fiber that rotate to and fro — à la bumblebees, hummingbirds and dragonflies — to produce 1-10 kW of wind power suitable for homes and small businesses.
Kevin Gardner | Inhabitat
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Hummingbirds can achieve a forward speed of 45 km per hour and their wingbeat ranges from 70 to 80 beats per second in smaller birds to 10 to 15 beats per second in giant hummingbirds.
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Butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, and other pollinators will come for the banquet too.
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Many of these flowers - especially the cosmos - attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Shade plantations also provide homes to seasonal migrants like warblers, orioles, tanagers, and hummingbirds.
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I warn the hummingbirds out front, "Just slow down," as they chase me away from the falling hollyhocks.
Tallying up the heartbeats
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Flowers with tubular red corollas are especially attractive to hummingbirds.
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Two endemic birds listed by IUCN as vulnerable are found in the mangroves of this ecoregion: the mangrove hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) and the yellow-billed cotinga (Carpodectes antoniae).
Moist Pacific Coast mangroves
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Blue-throated Hummingbirds show convergence with oscines in vocal complexity, song organization, song function, and possible learning of some song elements.
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Even hummingbirds are in the business of chasing and diving after bigger birds that offend them.
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Fully dressed, she lay atop the bedclothes clutching a windup alarm clock with double brass hemispheres on top, registering its hypertensive ticktock like the pulse of a mechanical hummingbird.
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A Delicate Battle is being remounted by The National Ballet, with an engagement at the Hummingbird Centre that ends this week.
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On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogons, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
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Shade plantations also provide homes to seasonal migrants like warblers, orioles, tanagers, and hummingbirds.
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During flight, hummingbirds sometimes flap their wings so rapidly that it causes the hum which gave the birds their name.
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Root-hardy almond verbena has sandpapery foliage and produces fingerlike clusters of small white almond-scented flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
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On the one side we have baboons, lions, elephants, buffaloes, and giraffes; on the other spider-monkeys, pumas, tapirs, anteaters, and sloths; while among birds, the hornbills, turacos, orioles, and honeysuckers of Africa contrast strongly with the toucans, macaws, chatterers, and hummingbirds of America.
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Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchlings, and feed the chicks as nestlings and fledglings.
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We once had a hummingbird feeder, but I guess we're too far north.
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Cracids have also been noted to consume eggs of pigeons, hummingbirds and tinamous.
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You will see blue morpho butterflies, violet sabrewing hummingbirds and dragonflies with scarlet breastplates.
The Sun
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In the 6 following weeks, not “nice” but “long” (this is precisely how they will feel for me) I'm sure I will often visualise your Hummingbird Hawk-Moth hovering in front of these beautiful “geranium lierre” (ivy geranium) ...
Le mot juste - French Word-A-Day
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The ones I missed right off the bat were the swallow-tailed butterflies (the big yellow and black ones that used to be everywhere), the long-tailed hummingbird and Lignum Vitae trees.
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Hummingbirds flap their wings at fantastic speeds which allow them to hover in midair while they feed.
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Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
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Cooling fountains mask traffic noise, while hummingbirds and butterflies explore the charms of tuberoses, heliotrope, and other plants chosen for their sensual appeal.
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Hummingbirds have also been grouped with nightjars, mousebirds and perching birds (Passeriformes).
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The park is home to thousands of different species of flora and birds, including parrots and hummingbirds.
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Butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, cardinals, bluejays and more visited our gardens.
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Wing tracings clearly show variation in wing size and shape among species, and also among sex-age groups within species in these hummingbirds.
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Both species bloom during mid summer to early fall, and are pollinated by either hummingbirds (L. cardinalis) or bumblebees (L. siphilitica).
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This appealing, diminutive shrub blooms in spring with honey-scented flowers that look like bottlebrushes, and they are hummingbird magnets!
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It is probably a hummingbird clearwing (Hemaris thysbe).
Archive 2009-05-01
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For the twitcher: have you crossed off the antillean crested hummingbird?
Times, Sunday Times
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A pair of pewees darted between twigs above the path, calling occasionally, and a hummingbird or two whizzed overhead.
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And of course, today we have such adept flyers as the swallows, hummingbirds, falcons, and the soaring albatrosses which demonstrate the great diversity of flight adaptations in birds.
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We move to the dining room, a welcoming space with a fireplace and a view through sliding doors of the deck and seed and nectar feeders ablur with the wings of purple finches, titmice, orioles, towhees, grosbeaks, and hummingbirds.
Birdology
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Hummingbirds often fly in to feeders just a few feet from them.
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The first bird that I saw banded was a calliope hummingbird.
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Hummingbirds are very adept at sipping nectar from any or all these plant groups.
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Later in the season yellow daylilies, blue buddleia and yellow asclepias will join the gaillardias to provide delight for butterflies, hummingbirds, and humans.
May Bloom Day 2008 « Fairegarden
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It was previously believed that because hummingbirds with shorter wings generally have higher wingbeat frequency, they will be more maneuverable in competitive interactions.
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A pair of bluebirds and a phoebe dallied across the street, and a hummingbird zipped across the western sky.
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An artfully designed stained-glass hummingbird seems a fitting object to remind us of our stay in this peaceful, bird-rich town.
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The chalkydri bobbed its feathered head and chittered in rapid, high-pitched tones, an aural hummingbird.
Etched in Bone
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Butterflies and hummingbirds will be attracted to windows box planters or containers of bright flowers.
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I certainly anticipate that the hummingbird will serve them well for many years to come.
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My mother would like for me to note that she is nothing like Vivienneshe is a hummingbird of a woman, very tiny and very happy, and was a majorette in college when Vivienne was a burgeoning hippiebut there are both a hidden depth and a fierce, overwhelming love in Vi that I think do come from my mother.
Lauren Groff - An interview with author
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I believe your hummer is a ruby throated as they are really the only hummingbird in the east.
Birds Of Fall « Fairegarden
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The sole heiress to her father's bread-flour fortune, she has grown up in a Newport mansion modelled on the Palace of Versailles, and her coming-out ball boasts 800 guests, fountains of champagne, and the release of a cageful of gold-sprayed hummingbirds at midnight.
My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin
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Along the Pacific Coast, the large Anna's hummingbird may be found, as well as Allen's, black-chinned, broad-tailed, calliope, Costa's, and rufous hummingbirds.
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Their approach assumed the observed, almost complete sugar assimilation to model gut function in hummingbirds.
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While many leave as early as the end of July, a few late lingerers sometimes remain into early winter, visiting suet or hummingbird feeders.
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Another good reason to choose the penstemon is that it also attracts the beautiful hummingbird!
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Sitting here, I have so far watched a hummingbird mating ritual, the honey bees at the balm tree, the unusually marked bees in flowering chives.
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Hummingbirds are very adept at sipping nectar from any or all these plant groups.
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Amethyst-throated Hummingbird males vocalized mainly from exposed perches as they turned their heads, displaying their brilliant amethyst gorgets.
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Between visits, the hummingbirds commonly remained perched nearby.
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On Sunday, on the way up, I saw a hummingbird standing in the air among the Eugenia Street callistemon.
Bach’s cello concertos on the ipod
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Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.
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Then, without warning he zipped off the branch doing something I call the hummingbird dance, which is an aerial display of avian acrobatics at lightning speed.
Maggie Sergio: The Story of Penny, a Hummingbird, and the Power of Saint Francis
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God has equipped the hummingbird with a needle-like bill which penetrates deep into flowers to extract nectar.
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This morning's excitement was this moth hummingbird clearwing (Hemaris thysbe).
Archive 2009-07-01
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Hummingbirds and verdins sip nectar from flowers in late spring and summer; several birds and rodents eat the seeds in late summer and fall.
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Provide bright flowers such as columbine, Japanese quince, scarlet sage, snapdragons, coral bells, trumpet honeysuckle, bee balm, phlox and others that are tube-shaped to attract hummingbirds.
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Without the ability to hover, hummingbirds would not be able to obtain nectar from flowers.
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Investigation showed it, too, was a moth -- a hummingbird clearwing moth.
Boing Boing: August 20, 2006 - August 26, 2006 Archives
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Robins, hummingbirds, catbirds, thrushes and even a grouse or two, usually not attracted by seed feeders, are drawn to this water in our backyard garden.
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For dry shade, also try Douglas iris, any of the alum roots, hummingbird sage, sword fern, and foothill sedge.
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Thus, hummingbirds represent an ideal system in which to gain understanding of how animals achieve energy balance.
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Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchlings, and feed the chicks as nestlings and fledglings.
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Add some hardy fuchsias for their pink, red and white tubular flowers that appeal to the hummingbirds.
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The new hummingbird is broader, his breast a lighter shade of red.
El colibri
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Birds that may visit mangrove communities include Amazona autumnalis, scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds.
Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
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I think Kristin's image of a hummingbird is "le mot juste" for Newforest!!
Le mot juste - French Word-A-Day
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Most of them overwinter elsewhere, like the broad-tailed and rufous hummingbirds that pass the cold months in central Mexico, migrating back in summer to drink flow-er nectar and make their chicks on high.
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Many of the hummingbirds, including Swordbills can be closely seen at feeders.
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In the Otonga area, during this study, the violet tailed sylphs and speckled hummingbirds were observed as those with the largest diet range.
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The swordbilled hummingbird and the condor are found here, as well as wolves, pumas, deer.
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Attract hummingbirds by planting Mexican bush sage, pineapple sage, and beebalm.
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Flashing brilliant sparks of glittering light as they hover and dart among flowers, hummingbirds evoke a surreal magic.
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A hummingbird buzzed past our heads, and above, in a magnolia tree, the hill's resident flock of wild parrots clucked and chattered.
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Like other birds, hummingbirds communicate through both auditory and visual signals.
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Butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, cardinals, bluejays and more visited our gardens.
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The only problem with the embroidered shantung fabric was how hard it was to match the hummingbirds and delicate bee balm flowers of the valance with the curtain fabric.
Sea Escape
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Hummingbird Collins tried very hard not to let her expression register the shock that her mind was feeling.
Unpretty
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Whoever was responsible for the interior decoration of Hummingbird House had subtly co-ordinated paler, more restful shades of sun-gold and sea-blue.
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The island was called Iere, meaning ‘the land of the hummingbird,’ by its native Amerindian inhabitants.
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Birds in the grounds included the usual gang of Greater Antillean Grackles, an exquisite Vervain Hummingbird singing from the very top of a dead tree and seemingly all the White-chinned Thrushes chacking away at some unseen predator, just like all thrushes do throughout the world.
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Hummingbirds spend around 80% of their time sitting on twigs, shrubs, and other available resting places.
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I am working on creating an extremely varied hedgerow across my front yard that I am going to incorporate it into (2 kinds of elder, 2 saskatoon berry-bushes, honeyberry-something like blueberies but cylindricalish, a round honeyflower bush for hummingbirds, and pussy willow so far).
Tigers & Strawberries » Eating Bitter, Part Two: The Bitter Melon and Me
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It always has the same effect on me – multi coloured muuchykkkkkins that swing from chandeliers until ingested, chomped and sparrowed – or hummingbirded or owled or som – got another cone?
Smoke pot, lose weight: the best of all possible worlds « raincoaster
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The types he most often sees are the rufous hummingbird, which summers here and migrates to Mexico for the winter, and the Anna's, which is a year-round resident.
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Unlike larger birds, hummingbirds will seldom take advantage of a bird bath or bowl of water.
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These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
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The keyboardist flies across the keys with the frenzied energy of a tap-dancing hummingbird.
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Add some hardy fuchsias for their pink, red and white tubular flowers that appeal to the hummingbirds.
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Maybe it was the seating; maybe this geezer's senses are overwhelmed by having to watch a picture show that only a hummingbird could comprehend.
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Is there a spray I can use that will not harm visiting hummingbirds - the reason I plant the hollyhocks?
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For the next many weeks, the Gulf Coast sky will be a constantly changing tableau of hawks and doves, vultures and vireos, flycatchers and hummingbird, warblers and waterfowl.
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The brilliant orange, red flowers of the scarlet runnerbean supply nectar all summer long for hummingbirds and butterflies.
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Species studied have ranged from mosquitoes to butterflies, from fish to frogs, from tiny fence lizards to giant land iguanas in Galapagos, from hummingbirds to ostriches, from mice to elephants.
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This morning's excitement was this moth hummingbird clearwing Hemaris thysbe.
Hummingbird clearwing
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Several studies have demonstrated a concentration preference pattern that is consistent with this conjecture: in both hummingbirds and sunbirds, discriminatory ability is more precise at low that at high concentrations.
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Cooling fountains mask traffic noise, while hummingbirds and butterflies explore the charms of tuberoses, heliotrope, and other plants chosen for their sensual appeal.
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Of the 20-odd bird species present in mature forest, the most common are the pine warbler, cardinal, summer tanager, Carolina wren, ruby-throated hummingbird, blue jay, hooded warbler, eastern towhee, and tufted titmouse.
Southeastern Mixed Forest Province (Bailey)
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I'm generally not a big fan of hummingbird feeders.
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He bent down and pinned the little, blue hummingbird onto Rupert's winter jacket and leaned back with satisfaction.
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The water turnover rates of hummingbirds feeding on dilute nectar are more similar to those of amphibious and aquatic organisms than to those of terrestrial vertebrates.
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Hummingbirds and little tubby warblers darted among the trees.
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Otherwise, the sugar will ferment and could cause deadly salmonella poisoning to hummingbirds.
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Butterflies and hummingbirds will be attracted to windows box planters or containers of bright flowers.
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I have become acquainted with several salvias, which the hummingbirds love, and I continue to admire the endless blooms of rudbeckia and yarrow.
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Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
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Bottom line: Outlines might be more suited to owlish writers, but they can be used effectively by hummingbirds like me, too.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How pantsers can embrace the outline
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The calliope hummingbird weighs only as much as two paper clips, yet it migrates annually between Canada and Mexico.
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When they first hatch, young hummingbirds have few feathers and cannot thermoregulate.
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I bought matching towels and a hummingbird feeder and began cutting late-night boozing short in order to come home and water the rosebushes.
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Hummingbirds are particularly welcome, with their precision aerial maneuvers, including steep dives to fend off interlopers.
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the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous
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Except for the flight feathers on wings and tail, the top third of hummingbird feathers lack barbicels and hamuli.
Birdology
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Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.
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Female hummingbirds have more cryptic coloration than males, most likely so that they do not attract predators to the nest when incubating and feeding chicks.
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Hummingbird will also introduce version 3.3 of exceed/W, its personal computer X Server software for Windows.
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His snort sent a smoke ring sailing past yellow jewelweed where a hummingbird thrummed.
On Barack Obama and 'the art of the possible'
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The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
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This set includes the owls and nightjars, which may have a close relationship to the swifts and hummingbirds.
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The buntings, orioles, hummingbirds, and many other warblers have yet to arrive.
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The Arts Centre was planning to promote local-based talent and bridge the gap between pub gigs and the 3,000 capacity Hummingbird venue.
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He was standing over by the windows watching hummingbird in the shrimp plant.
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Remove bird feeders, including hummingbird feeders, if bears are present.
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Males of many species of hummingbird are territorial and the territories, which are usually centered around a food source, are aggressively defended by their owners.
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Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.
