BS: Hummingbirds

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:26 PM

We got our friends back here in Indianapolis about five days ago, I think it was.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:59 PM

Thanks MaineDog. That means they'll be here soon. I'll have to keep watch.

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 19 May 05 - 11:32 AM

I have a feeder for the 1st time this spring. Put it out a week ago &, so far, no takers, as far as I can tell. Did I wait too late? I am in Southeastern New York.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 10:38 PM

The early feeder gets the hummers?

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 18 - 01:57 PM

Well, according to this story, there's a new species in the books.

Oreotrochilus Cyanolaemus (it's a stunner)

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Sep 18 - 02:53 PM

Let me see if I can link to the photographs that go with
the American Ornithology reports.

male hummingbird photos

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 01:20 PM

A lot of unusual things about this newly discovered hummingbird.
Its native place is the high Andes, in the part of Ecuador north of Chile,
where there is snow and hail even in the SUMMER.

The altitude is high, the temps are cold, and the air is thin.

To compensate, the hummers have worked out a routine
of feeding while perched instead of while hovering.

More from
The Hummingbird of the High Andes (photos)