In literature:
There is such a moth in England, too, where no hummingbird is found.
"Ways of Nature" by John Burroughs
Nothing was ever more bewitching to watch than that atom in feathers, the hummingbird mother.
"Upon The Tree-Tops" by Olive Thorne Miller
Tess' class were to be butterflies and hummingbirds.
"The Corner House Girls in a Play" by Grace Brooks Hill
I never saw hummingbirds fed so gently.
"A-Birding on a Bronco" by Florence A. Merriam
Palpitating with life, she looked like some kind of a marvelous human hummingbird.
"The Preliminaries" by Cornelia A. P. Comer
He was as happy as a hummingbird.
"Donalblane of Darien" by J. Macdonald Oxley
Wait for my Hummingbird to speak.
"The Heritage of the Hills" by Arthur P. Hankins
His pilgrimage to the Hummingbird-land, methinks, was well conducted.
"The Infidel, Vol. I." by Robert Montgomery Bird
A California lady has taken some remarkable photographs of the Anna's hummingbird in the act, showing just how it is done.
"The Woodpeckers" by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
With a motion as swift as the flight of a hummingbird she caught his hand.
"The Hills of Refuge" by Will N. Harben
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In news:
I answered yes because my son, Sean, had just related a story a couple of weeks earlier of hummingbirds recently visiting his feeders.
Then he told me about a nest box that he had purchased for hummingbirds .
These two belong to a group known as the sphinx moths and they mimic hummingbirds in shape, size and behavior.
The hummingbird moths are about an inch to an inch and a quarter long and their swept-back wings are about two inches long.
Marion Brady spent years rehabilitating hummingbirds .
Brady has been told to cease saving hummingbirds .
During this time, up to 200 hummingbirds visit our feeders in a single day.
Roy's Folks: White Hummingbird .
Pope said this is the second year hummingbirds have come back to his plants.
Back to Knoxville for what's sure to be a fun and informative afternoon celebrating the wonder of hummingbirds .
Hummingbird Fest offers info, activities for bird's fans.
Christine Knowlton caught this hummingbird at her feeder in Hannawa Falls.
What to look for to tell apart Costa's, Anna's, and Black-chinned Hummingbirds .
In nature, hummingbirds eat flower nectar for energy and bugs for protein.
A rufous hummingbird feeds outside the American Museum of Natural History despite winter temperatures.
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In science:
We can say that penguins are atypical in that they cannot fly; hummingbirds are atypical in that they have very fine motor control; parrots are atypical in that they could talk; and so on.
Evaluating Defaults
Fig.4 The geoglyph of the Hummingbird has the bill touching a line having the direction of the sunrise on the December solstice.
Maria Reiche's Line to Archaeoastronomy
The Peruvian writer and poet José María Arguedas imagined “picaflores que llegan hasta el sol para beberle su fuego”, that is, hummingbirds flying toward the sun to drink his fire.
Maria Reiche's Line to Archaeoastronomy
By analogy with haute cuisine, in which hummingbirds’ tongues are cooked between two slices of veal after which the veal is thrown away, once the algebra was constructed, the fields and any associated ob jects could be discarded. I unequivocably took the point of view that quarks are real particles. 2.
Color, from baryon spectroscopy to qcd
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