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Hummingbirds

A small species of bird found in the Americas. Notable for their ability to hover and fly backwards due to their size and extremely fast wing movement.

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How has DNA analysis helped us to understand divergence in humming bird populations?

Through DNA, we can understand more about the humming-bird and its differences.

Do hummingbirds build nests inner England?

They dont occur here in England at all, they are completely restricted to the Americas. They do occur inland in New England, but have a smaller diversity than the hummingbird species in the Amazon. They do build nests and breed in the spring and summer, but ultimately migrate with the cold winters.

What are the advantages of an automatic cat feeder?

Some advantages of an automatic cat feeder would be that it feeds your cat for you and feeds your cat when you're not around. Some other advantages to an automatic cat feeder is that you can manage how much food your cat eats.

What is humming in combustion chamber?

Due to turbulence of incoming air and/or fuel mass flow perturbations the heat release process will be periodic (Unsteady) so the pressure inside the combustor will fluctuate due to unsteady heat release rate causing broadband noise this noise will match with one or more of the acoustic modes (frequencies) of the combustor, then the humming will occur and if the humming reflected from the combustor boundaries to the flame again it will increase the root source of the problem (flow perturbations) and amplification of the oscillation will take place causing structural vibrations to the combustor walls (acceleration).

How long are hummingbirds feet?

Their feet are not made for balancing in the air or walking. That is what wings are for. A hummingbird's feet help them grip on branches and perch.

How many types of hummingbirds are in New England?

There are two species of hummingbirds that are native to New England. They are the ruby-throated hummingbird and the rufous hummingbird.

What kind of hummingbirds live in Oregon?

Oregon are best place to find hummingbirds. Some of the kinds of hummingbirds that live in that state include Calliope, Costa's, Broad-tailed, Rufous, Anna's and Allen's.

When to put out hummingbird feeders in Pennsylvania?

Male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are normally the first to arrive in PA. They'll begin to arrive sometime in mid to late April searching for potential nesting/breeding sites for the females, who'll arrive later on. However, some of these males are simply passing through, as they continue on their migration north to other states. PA's official date for Hummingbirds is May 1st. I'd suggest putting your hummingbird feeder out the 2nd or last weekend in April. Try not to get discouraged if you don't see any hummers at first. Hummingbirds typically prefer temperatures in the 70s and up, which are more common in PA later on in May and June. However, If you keep you feeder clean and with fresh nectar, I gaurantee you'll have hummers buzzing your feeder before too long.

Is the hummingbird the smallest bird in the world?

The Bee Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world.
You bet! Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world because they are only a few inches long!

What do hummingbirds eat in Central America?

Hummingbirds in central America eat mostly nectar from flowers,but sometimes eat small bugs.

How high can you place a bird feeder?

You can place a wild bird feeder as high as you like. Just make sure it is easily accessible for refilling and cleaning.

Six name of migratory birds?

snow goose,black duck,artic tern,purple finch,greater yellowlegs,yellow warbler.

Which is a perching birds preying birds wading birds climbing birds water birds?

This isn't about what perching means(just to let you know right now).

Terms like 'water bird' or 'perching' are common terms for certain groups of birds and bare no relation to true taxonomy or avian evolution.

Still a few examples:

Perching birds are birds that perch, including all passerines (robins, chats, thrushes, crows, orioles, birds of paradise, bower birds) and some nonpasserines (like mousebirds, kingfishers, trogons)

Birds of prey include eagles, owls, eagle-owls, vultures, falcons, caracaras, secretary birds and sometimes even shrikes and bush shrikes are classified as birds of prey. Birds of prey are those that belong in Strigiformes (owls) and the truest birds of prey are in the Falconiformes (eagles, hawks, secretary birds, vultures, falcons, hobbies, merlins, kestrels, sparrowhawks, buzzards, harriers, caracaras and gymnogenes, not to mention fisheagles and snake-eagles).

Water birds include sea birds (Procellariformes, Pelecaniformes and Sphenisciformes) and include Penguins, albatrosses, pelicans, cormorants, petrels, shearwaters, prions and storm petrels, and of course tropic birds, gannets and frigate birds.

Water birds of freshwater environs feature members of Anseriformes and Ciconiiformes. Ducks and Geese and Swans and Screamers are Anseriformes and float on the water. Others are wading birds in Ciconiiformes and feature storks, ibises and hamerheads (hamerkop is the name in South Africa) and whale headed storks (shoebills), herons and egrets.

Other wading birds feature gallinules, moorhens, snipes and jacanas from Gruiformes and also much of Charadriformes, to name but a few, sandpipers and plovers, oystercatchers and thick-knees (or dikkops).

As you see, there is much disagreement about names, dikkops are also called thick-knees or stone curlews thus it is better to avoid confusion and rather use the scientific name which is internationally recognised.

Can hummingbirds eat bird seed?

Hummingbirds is one word. No, hummingbirds cannot eat bird seed. Hummingbirds mostly eat flower nectar but not only flower nectar. Most of their diet is nectar from flowers. Hummingbirds may visit 1,000 flowers per day in their search for nectar. Hummingbirds also eat ants and bugs and small insects like mosquitoes, aphids, gnats, caterpillars, small beetles, white flies and insect eggs.

How far can a bee travel in a hour?

A honey bee can fly up to 50 km in one hour!

~ anonymous

Do humming birds live in Cyprus?

i've just got back from a visit to famagusta in cyprus and i'm sure i saw a hummingbird in my daughters garden on several occasions. i couldn't photograph it bcoz it was too fast. can anyone pls confirm if i'm right, would love to be as it was a very beautiful experience. pls reply to lindawilliams21@btinternet.com

What organism eats birds?

A lauge number of organisms have been known to eat birds. Organisms that eat birds include: Large Mamals, Larger birds, Reptiles (snapping turtles) and even Fish (Northern Pike kave been known to eat duckings).

Improved answer:

Any organism can eat a bird - even herbivores do - sometimes - usually without meaning to do so - eat birds. The word "herbivore" means a creature that eats plants only. But as has been written up in the newspapers - cows will eat other cows under the right conditions. (Think processed feed where cows were actually fed ground up parts of other animals including other cows.)

The term "organism" can refer to microscopic bacteria that can consume a bird. Certain types of bacteria can attack a bird while it is alive and others can attack the bird after it has died. Some tiny creatures such as fleas and ticks will eat specific parts of a bird such as the bird's blood. Small creatures such as bobcats, lynx, and other such carnivores will kill and eat birds. Vultures will eat other birds. Larger creatures such as alligators or crocodiles, wolves, puma, and the like often hunt or catch and eat birds, man has either hunted or domesticated birds and eaten them for centuries, and even large creatures such as lions and tiger and bears (Oh My!) have caught and eaten birds. There are various types of marine life that kill and eat birds too. Thus, just like with any organism, almost all of the other organisms are trying to kill and eat it. It is simply how life is here on Earth. As the old Mary Martin song went (At least I think it was Mary Martin who sang it) - Never smile at a crocodile. Never stop and chat a while. Don't be taken in - by his foolish grin. He's only thinking how you will fit within his skin....

Or to put that another way - any organism that is hungry enough and has the opportunity - will eat whatever it can catch. Whether or not it is a bird.

How birds look like?

If you're talking about the band Byrd than your asking the wrong people. If you mean the vertebrate bird than you can't be asking this question seriously. A bird has feathers, two wings, a beak, is warm-blooded, has two feet, two eyes, and a claws. Most birds can fly, the birds that can't fly are the emu, ostrich, peacock, and penguin. :0)