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To: Grammy; GSP.FAN
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.

7 posted on 06/16/2009 7:37:17 PM PDT by LucyJo ("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
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Hubby was just telling me that hummingbirds are among a small number of birds that can’t walk. They surely make up for it in flying.


9 posted on 06/16/2009 7:40:30 PM PDT by LucyJo ("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
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