Birding Wire

Hummingbirds

Explore southeastern Arizona's hummingbird havens with Sheri L. Williamson, author of the Peterson Field Guide to Hummingbirds and one of America's foremost hummingbird experts, and SE Arizona Bird Observatory founder and Director/Naturalist Tom Wood.
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With Oklahoma's hummingbird feeding season in full swing and sizzling summer temperatures looming, biologists with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Wildlife Diversity Program offer hints for a successful hummingbird-feeding season.
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As is the norm this time of years, the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory (SABO) hummingbird banding team has been busy on the San Pedro River. One notable recent recapture was banded as an adult in 2008, meaning at a minimum age of 8 years, she's among the oldest individuals in SABO's study.
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The 4th annual Sedona Hummingbird Festival invites residents and visitors alike to the Sedona Performing Arts Center and the greater Sedona area on July 31st and August 1-2 for three enchanting days of hummingbird presentations, expert lectures, birding trips, sunrise breakfasts, garden tours, and more.
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds Blog reminds us that hummingbirds are special-brilliant, tiny, precision-flying creatures that glitter like jewels in the sun and dazzle with their aerial acrobatics, flying fast then stopping instantly, hovering, and zipping up, down, or backwards with exquisite control.
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At the peak of their hummer-feeding career, Judy and Jim Ainsworth of Cape Girardeau, Mo. put out 24 feeders, each holding 48 ounces of nectar, every April and went through 10 pounds of sugar a day during the peak feeding months from May through August, buying sugar in 50- to 70-pound lots.
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