Have you ever wondered just how fast a Hummingbird's wing beats? Or how many times a Hummingbird’s heart beats per minute? Well, I am here to enlighten your bird loving souls. For those of you who don’t know, a Hummingbird’s wing can beat up to 200 times per second, and a Hummingbird’s heart while in flight can beat up to 1,250 times per minute. Special muscles in their “shoulder” areas allow for them to fly in all directions, up, down, left, right you name it. These are just the basic facts, now let’s get into the good stuff.
Hummingbirds include the smallest birds in the world, but they belong to one of the largest group of birds, the Trochilidae family. These enchanting birds are found in deserts, mountains, and plains, but most live in tropical rainforests. Their name refers to the humming sound made by their tiny, beating wings; each species creates a different humming sound, depending on the speed of its wing beats. In the Caribbean, people call the hummingbird el zunzun. These energetic dynamos have been around for ages; hummingbird fossils found in Germany are said to be more than 30 million years old.
There are 328 hummingbird species. The smallest is the bee hummingbird from Cuba, and the largest is the giant hummingbird from South America. Hummingbird bills come in different sizes and shapes, too. The long, slender bill is adapted to collect nectar from flowers. The bill protects the long, split tongue and allows each hummingbird species to feed on specific
Brian Doyle's lyrical essay Joyas Voladoras explores both the structure and paradox of the heart and no matter the size or shape the heart is an important part of life. Doyle first speaks of the humming-bird comparing its heart to an engine, that their heart is a power house of energy. That said their fast pace live come at a great cost as Brian Doyle states that humming birds “ suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures than any other living creature” (292). The solution would be to slow down but even the most shortest rest birds the "flying Jewels" closer to death, so what the heart need can also be its down fall. One of my favorite statements that Doyle makes is about the how a heart has " approximately two billion heart beats to spend in a life time"(292).
The Cardinal, also known as the redbird and the Virginia nightingale, is about eight inches long, a little smaller than a robin. They have perching feet to help support them when they are sitting in the trees. Their throat and area around the base of the bill is black and they have a seed eating beak. Cardinals have an elliptical wing because they need to have the capability for quick take-offs and and
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up to twice their weight each day, leaving very little for the Wedge-bill. This hummingbird is
First analyzing the hummingbird, Doyle writes, “A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser… their hearts beating faster that we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests,” emphasizing the diminutive status as well as the rapid beat of the hummingbird’s heart. Writing “Their hearts are stripped to the skin for the war against gravity and inertia, the mad search for food, the insane idea of flight. The price… is a life closer to death; they suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures than any other living creature,” Doyle shows
Doyle starts off by introducing the hummingbird and how small and fragile they are. When Doyle is explaining how risky it is for a hummingbird to rest and fly he states, “The price of their ambition is a life closer to death…” (Doyle). The hummingbird is always at risk of dying, they constantly fly to warm their infinitesimal hearts or they grow cold and cease to be. Doyle compares the hummingbird as an engine and how they can burn out, it is costly for them to fly, but they continue to; fast and strong. Their ambition to continue to fly and find food is strong, they fly fast to live, and the fact that they fly so fast is the reason why their hearts are so strong. Although the hummingbird has a small, fragile heart, their motivation to live and fly is strong.
The vocal uniqueness in animals is present in a variety of species such as bats, dolphins, and birds (such as songbirds).
Talula, when preaching to the audience, the pastor/preacher must understand that there are diverse people in public. They may be of the same race; however, they are diverse in jobs, age, and economic status. Never assume what you preach that everyone understands. I said that to say this; in your post, you stated that the Lord only watches over the righteous. Someone may think God is not watching over their loved ones whom they are praying about and believe there is no hope. But the Bible does say that He is longsuffering and patient. People have wild imaginations and thoughts. Everyone does not process information in the same manner. I am sure you experienced that on many occasions being a retired teacher. I am just saying. :)
Keeping a hummingbird feeder is a good idea, but there are other things you need to do to keep the little birds happy and humming in your garden. Hummingbirds, unlike most other animals, do not find their food source based on smell. Because of this, brightly colored plants and feeders are what attract the tiny creatures to your garden. Red is the best color to attract them. Keeping a clean, full feeder provides hummingbirds with the energy they need to keep flying around your garden and to other stops on their feeding route. The sugar water solution, however, is not their main food source. Hummingbirds actually get the nutrients and proteins they need for survival from soft-bodied spiders and tiny insects on the plants in your garden. Their outrageous metabolisms burn up calories so quickly, they need the sugar and flower nectars to keep them energized so they can hunt. The traditional sugar/water solution calls for one part sugar to four parts water. Do not boil the water to make syrup. Just mix it in room temperature water. Some gardeners have experimented with solutions that have a higher concentration of sugar to water. There is no research to show that high concentrated solutions of sugar harms the hummingbirds. Their metabolism operates so much differently than most animals. A higher concentration of solution just means they can drink less often to get the energy they need to hunt. It
It usually flaps its wings to create thunderand lightning(John M.). The Thunderbird is a giant bird with colossal wings and sharp claws thatseem both protecting and dangerous(Tracey). People may think the thunderbird is small sincebirds are usually small but they are pretty big in size for instance they can pick up a whale andwhen eat it also their strength is so amazing that they can split open a tree at ease. A few cultureshave thought that the Thunderbirds were protecting eggs that had the types of birds that we seetoday also it has been thought that eagles and falcons accompanied the Thunderbird. One talesaid that the Thunderbirds was able to transform into a boy and speak backwards. TheAlgonquian Indians have thought that the Thunderbirds were the ancestors of the humans racewith the creation of the universe(John M.). It all started when 2 Indians from the Passamaquoddytribe were destined to find the origin of lightning. There was an obstacle that they had to get pastand the first indian was able to make it but the second Indian didn’t make it since he went toolate so it crushed him. The Indian that made it saw some more indians that were playing a gameof ball. One if them said it’s time to go so they were getting ready to fly away and flew off. TheElder came up to the Indians and told the Elder why he was on a quest to find the origin ofthunder. The elder decided to help the indian so other people with the elder put him into
He prefers Cardinals slightly to hummingbirds, because they sing. Moreover, he is very protective and possessive of his little flower garden.
In the essay Joyas Voladoras written by Brian Doyle, Doyle focuses on one of the most amazing organs in a living species’ body; the heart. The heart is a muscular organ that that pumps blood and provides circulation. Without a functioning heart, one cannot live. In his essay Doyle writes, “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be one hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.” People can live their lives slow and long, or fast and youthfully. Doyle refers to hummingbirds as flying jewels. Here Doyle is connecting to his audience. Human beings can connect to this quote
One of its most important characteristics is its beak. The finch adapted to have a thin, long beak to probe through moss, bark and leaves in search of food (Wildscreen Arkive, N.D.). These finches have the thinnest beak out of the 13 finches; which aids them to find small insects. The Green Warbler finch are mostly found in humid highland forest where their primary food source is found. These adaptations made them more fit to survive on available food. Over the years the finch’s beak has evolved as the bird developed different taste for insects. Another famous adaptation is how they camouflage in their environment. The Green Warbler is restricted to the forest and is greener in body colouration, while the Gray Warbler is found in shrubby, dry thickets and is greyer and duller looking (Certhidea olivacea, 2010). Their coloration helps them camouflage in their own environments, and to hide from predators. Recent studies have found that there are in fact two separate species of the Warbler Finch, the Green Warbler Finch and the Grey Warbler Finch, but are considered as a single species (Wildscreen Arkive, N.D.). The Green Warbler finch mainly occupies larger, inner islands, while the Grey Warbler finch inhabits the smaller, outer islands (Green Warbler Finch,
The Ruby Throated Hummingbird have a distinct migration and breeding pattern. Over the summer, the hummingbird stays in the middle and eastern half of the United States and in southern
There are almost as many ways of flying as there are kinds of birds. Albatrosses glide and soar with long narrow wings stretched out, sometimes staying aloft for hours without a single wing beat. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, can 't rest their wings for even a second in flight. Woodpeckers have a swooping flight, crows fly in a straight line, and swallows dart and weave every which way.