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Search of the Week: “hummingbirds won’t eat instant nectar”
All of Arizona’s famous feeding stations use plain sugar water to attract avian celebrities such as Lucifer (above, female), Magnificent, White-eared and Violet-crowned hummingbirds. (photo © Sheri L....
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Search Roundup: Feeding hummingbirds
If you have an urge to get fancy with how you feed hummingbirds, do it with the feeder itself, not with the contents. (Par-A-Sol hummingbird feeders at Amazon.com) Some recent searches on the theme of...
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Keeping hummingbird feeders clean
Brushtech Hummingbird Feeder Cleaning Kit at Amazon.com (click image) If you’re like me, you’ve got a collection of toothbrushes, baby bottle brushes, and even well-washed mascara brushes sitting next...
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Search of the Week: “it is september why am i only getting female...
In juvenile plumage, young male hummingbirds like this Ruby-throated usually look a lot like their mothers. They also seem to leave the nest with chips on their shoulders. The full search was: “it is...
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“Chemical-free” sugar?
My reply to the following e-mail bounced, so I’ll answer it here: I’ve read the first part of your article on hummingbirds about what to make when you feed them. Before reading the article, I just...
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New post at my Web site
Wire-crested Thorntail, Ecuador As work progresses on the revision of A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America, I’ll be using the News page at my Web site to post updates, previews, and other...
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Search of the Week: “what can I feed hummingbirds to get them protein”
Sugar water is a substitute for the nectars of hummingbird-pollinated flowers, which provide the birds with energy-rich sugars, water, some electrolyte salts, and little else. Almost everything else...
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New post at my Web site
I’m such a bad blogger. I didn’t even post about my spectacular trip to Trinidad and Tobago last summer where I photographed this stunning White-necked Jacobin. Has it really been almost a year since I...
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Killer hummingbirds revisited
“It’s a photo of a dead hummingbird! What do you make of it Holmes?” “Impossible to say without additional evidence, Watson.” Periodically over the nearly nine years since the publication of Killer...
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A cardinal of a different color
A male Northern Cardinal with a rare mutation has become an Internet sensation! Former shelter kitty Lucky Wilbury, who is currently recovering from a life-threatening bladder blockage. To commemorate...
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