Native Hummingbird-pollinated Flowers Of The Santa Monica Mountains In the nearby Santa Monica Mountains, the following native perennials have the classic flower design for hummingbirds are regularly visited by them. http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/MEMBGNewsletter/Volume3number3/Santamonicamount
Extractions: Native hummingbird-pollinated flowers of the Santa Monica Mountains In the nearby Santa Monica Mountains, the following native perennials have the classic flower design for hummingbirds are regularly visited by them. Numerous other native, naturalized, and cultivated species have flowers that are frequently visited for nectar by hummingbirds. [Return to Volume 3(3) Menu]
Extractions: Hummingbirds, Angels, and Miniatures Classy Hummingbirds products are exquisitely detailed, individually crafted, sparkling handblown glass ornaments. They are crystal clear or accented in breathtaking iridescent colors. Edges and tips are generously overlaid with 24KT gold to enhance the rich reflections of light. As with all handcrafted items, each is unique. Quantity discounts for fundraisers and wholesale prices are available. Dazzling Hummingbirds Cheerful Critters Exquisite Angels Handblown Glass Flowers Paua Shell Jewelry Order Online Mail or Phone Order E-mail Scintillating or Soothing? Sassy or Solemn? Color Combinations for All Occasions The following color choices apply to all hummingbird products. Wing edges and beak are overlaid in genuine 24KT gold on every hummingbird except as noted. The head and body are crystal clear. Click blue-framed photos for enlarged view. 1. Crystal Clear 2. Pink/Turquoise 3. Turquoise/Purple
Andean Hummingbirds Andean hummingbirds, June 1999. A series of mistnets is set up in likely spots to capture hummingbirds, and the nets are checked frequently for captured birds. http://www.geometer.org/peru/
Extractions: Last Updated: March 12, 2000 Here is a photo of me in Peru. I am standing on a road, and just behind me you can see the rainforest. But above the rainforest, slightly hidden by the clouds, you can see some peaks of the Andes poking through. You can click on almost any photo to see a larger version. This one, in particular, looks much better in the full view. A Roadside Hawk was tangled in our hummingbird net, but as I walked toward him, he broke loose. His next wingbeat, however, tangled him again. This happened twice more, and he got closer and closer to the edge of the net. Each time he broke free I had weird conflicting emotions a sense of relief that we wouldn't have to deal with him and yet disappointment that we wouldn't. Finally, with his final wingbeat he hit the edge of the net, got tangled, and twisted around so that he was essentially in a bag of delicate netting, and it became clear that we would have to extract that beak and set of talons (and the bird attached to them) from the mist net. I had removed lots of feisty birds from mist nets before, but they had all been little, and the worst they could do was to give me a good solid pinch. The hawk looked like he could do a lot more damage than that ...
Extractions: conquistadors From a plateau on the wooded hill overlooking Tzintzuntzan (seen-soon-sahn) and the lake, Don Alonso, the old caretaker of the local archeological zone, pointed out to me where the Spaniards first entered the basin. As we walked along the hillside he enlightened me with his own versions of local history and folklore. The plateau itself, he told me, was created by Indian workmen using great quantities of fill rock, covered by nine feet of packed earth to form a broad mesa on which the (poo-RAY-pecha) rulers built their ceremonial center. Here stand the Preliminary excavations have shown that these platforms and temples were built over the tops of previous temples, erected on the hillside long before the mesa was created. Off to one side lie ruins believed to have been the dwellings of high priests. A large patio, originally covered by a pillared roof, was perhaps an altar to the local coyote deity. The tombs of high priests were unearthed beneath its floor, and on a nearby slope, archeologists have discovered a huge deposit of human bones, 20 meters by 10 meters and 2.5 meters deep. [Photo: Ruins of temples, Lake Patzcuaro] Close inspection of the buildings, as Don Alonso demonstrated, shows that different rooms, even sections of the same wall were built by different hands, in different patterns apparently the work of
Cloud Forest Alive! - Hummingbird Basics About hummingbirds. hummingbirds are among the mostloved of all birds. More than 50 species of hummingbirds have been recorded in Costa Rica. http://www.cloudforestalive.org/tour/hcam/hummer-info.htm
Extractions: Sponsors About Hummingbirds Hummingbirds are among the most-loved of all birds. Their bright coloration, quick movements, and incredible ability to hover motionless or even fly backwards makes them fascinating to watch. Their amazing agility comes from their fast wingbeats (40 or more per second!), and a special joint structure that allows them to rotate the wing at the shoulder, changing the angle and letting them get a power stroke in almost any direction. Most species are quite tolerant of humans and easy to attract to feeders, thus they are perfect subjects of study for the backyard birding enthusiast. More than 50 species of hummingbirds have been recorded in Costa Rica. At least a dozen species visit Monteverde regularly. These range from the large Violet Sabrewing, which is the size of a small sparrow, to the tiny Scintillant Hummingbird that weighs only 2-2.3g about the same as a small coin. Hummingbirds are important pollinators of many trees, shrubs, vines, and epiphytes. When a hummingbird probes a flower for nectar, it gets a small amount of pollen stuck to its bill or elsewhere on its head.
Extractions: Week of April 10, 2004; Vol. 165, No. 15 , p. 229 Susan Milius High-speed videos of hummingbirds catching fruit flies show that the birds' lower bills are unexpectedly flexible, say researchers. In three species with straight, narrow bills, the lower half can bend downward part way along its length, even though it has no joint, says Gregor M. Yanega of the University of Connecticut in Storrs. The motion also flares open a bird's mouth to gape extra wide. BENT FOR BUGS. To catch a fruit fly, a ruby-throated hummingbird (left to right) opens its bill and then widens its gape and adds extra downward slant to the lower jaw. Yanega These moves come in the final fractions of a second in a hummingbird's attempt to snag an insect out of the air, Yanega and his Connecticut colleague Margaret A. Rubega report in the April 8 Nature . The researchers say that they appear to be the first to document these bug-nabbing refinements. Earlier studies had shown that the upper bill can bend, but the lower one had seemed rigid.
Extractions: Home Birds Advice One of the most remarkable cases of mistaken identity in the animal world in the British Isles involves a large but unassuming moth. Every year many people are taken back as they see in their garden what appears at first sight to be a hummingbird hovering at the flowers. A careful check on the size and a closer look unmasks this imposter as a hummingbird hawk moth, Macroglossum stellatarum. The hummingbird hawk moth is a day-flying moth with a wingspan about two inches (50-58mm). It has a brown, white-spotted abdomen, brown forewings and orange hindwings. It is very swift on the wing and an expert hoverer. The wings beat so rapidly that they produce an audible hum and can be seen only as a haze. The darting movement from one flower to the next with the long proboscis uncoiled completes the illusion of a hummingbird. Another day-flying moth, the Silver Y, is often confused with the hummingbird hawk moth, but is smaller and darker. The hummingbird hawk moth is abundant and resident all around Mediterranean countries, and across Central Asia to Japan. Its migratory habits are well documented, with many thousands regularly migrating northward in Europe in the spring. There is also evidence of a return migration in the autumn.
Hummingbirds Ecuador Translate this page Dr. Fernando Ortiz-Crespo. Dr. Fernando Ortiz-Crespo. former Technical and Scientific Director, FUNDACYT. former Technical and Scientific http://www.cuencanet.com/ortiz/hummingbirds.htm
Hummingbirds - DesertUSA hummingbirds are only found in the western hemisphere, so they do no appear in any cultures legends and myths except those of North and South America. http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/jul/stories/hummer.html
Extractions: John James Audubon called hummingbirds "glittering fragments of rainbows." Others have likened them to "flying jewels." The poet D. H. Lawrence once observed, "...it [a hummingbird] is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description." Metaphors aside, "hummers" are indeed, infinitely delightful. Hummingbirds are only found in the western hemisphere, so they do no appear in any culture’s legends and myths except those of North and South America. On the Pacific coast of Peru perhaps two thousand years ago, for example, a mysterious people carved into the desert surface what archaeologists call a "giant ground drawing" of a hummingbird. It (like many other giant ground drawings in the region) is so large that you cannot even see it in its entirety unless you are at least one thousand feet above the figure. If this seems like an extreme preoccupation with hummers, perhaps the sculptors can be better understood by considering where they lived.
Hummingbirds Photographs of four southwestern US species by William Zittrich. http://www.geocities.com/wyllz/id5.htm
Operation RubyThroat Operation RubyThroat This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of a research initiative of the Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History in York, South Carolina, uses the Ruby Throated http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.rubythroat.org/&y=02F32F39D877EB
Humming Bird Nest Humming Bird Nest. Discovered, still under construction, May 13, 03. First egg, May 16. Mom, sitting thinking (about that second egg!). http://community-2.webtv.net/hotmail.com/verle33/HummingBirdNest/
Where Do You Want To Go Birding In Suriname Today? Birding Factoids 698 species in 59 families. No endemics 20 speciality species No endangered species 2 week trip expectation 350-400 species. http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/sasuriname.htm
Extractions: Bigi Pan Multiple-Use Management Area - Suriname Hemispheric Reserve. Part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. Located in the western part of the Suriname estuarine zone, the area extends to the Atlantic Ocean to a depth of 6m at low tide. The landscape is flat (0-5m above sea level) and is dominated by extensive mud flats and areas of standing water, including a mud flat up to 3km wide that extends along much of the area. A total of 122 species of birds have been recorded in the area. This includes 72 year-round residents and 50 species which occur as migrants from either North America or other parts of South America. Shorebirds and other waterbirds are particularly prominent. Shorebirds are the most common species from approximately mid-August to late April.
