[Grammy]

Hummingbird ping!

Come see GSP.FAN’s hummer pictures.

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Talking about the space shuttle, wouldn’t it be interesting to see how well a hummingbird would fly in zero-g?

[LucyJo]

Wow! Thanks for the ping. That is awesome info about the hummingbird, and I love the pics.

I was interested about the Anna's hummingbird 'singing' with its tail.

Here is an article about that:

Anna's Hummingbird Chirps With Its Tail During Display Dives

This from another story about the dive:

As they come out of their dive, they emit a short "chirping" sound which was recently shown by Dr Clark to come from its tail feathers rather than a "song box" in its throat. It does this by exploiting the noise generated as air rushed through the vanes of its tail feathers at the end of a dive, similar to the sound produced by air moving over the vibrating reed of a clarinet. "This is a new mechanism for sound production in birds," Dr Clark said.

[dennisw]

 

Grammy took these photos a few days ago of the mother hummingbird feeding her hatchlings.
The nest is is her backyard, 30 feet off the ground up in a tree