Hummingbirds

A bevy of black-capped chickadees race from the shrouded trees and into the clouds, their formation of a V is prominent against the orange blanket of the atmosphere. They swoop back down and into the trees again.

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

The Grants observed how the two ground finches preformed while attempting to obtain a seed called a Caltrop. Caltrops naturally have spikes around the seed as a defense against intruders. The Magnirostris did not have a hard time cracking open the Caltrop, with its hard, powerful jaw. However the Fortis would have to put more effort into cracking a single seed. The regular Fortis would try for six times and then give up, moving on to another seed. They will often move onto a different seed without trying. However the Fortis with a beak that is slightly deeper beak would attempt to crack the caltrop, and after a few tries, will succeed.

The hummingbird is a metaphor used to show a person that lives life very fast and is always looking ahead. Doyle talks about how hummingbirds risk everything in order to live their lives fast. They live very close to death. Everything they do must be fast or it can cause problems for the bird. Doyle explains this idea when he writes, “... you can live them fast, like a hummingbird and live to be two years old” (Doyle 3). The hummingbirds choose to live this way, which means that they have a much shorter lifespan. Everything happens to them in a much faster amount of time than it does for other things. Doyle’s message with the hummingbirds is that people relate to them because they can also have the choice to live fast. This does not mean that their lives will physically be shorter, but time will pass by them much quicker. All of the details in a person’s life pass by them with the possibility that they will never see them like they should. If a person lived to

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,

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Two birds, a crow and a dove fly above. They appear to observe the teenager as they fly.

When hummingbirds do not listen to their body’s need for food and do not immediately respond to their hunger, they face certain death. In a figurative sense, Doyle is

In paragraph one, the introduction, Doyle asks readers to imagine a hummingbird, followed by a hummingbird’s heart. This is where the author introduces logos about hummingbirds. While a hummingbird lives fast-paced live, the bird is unable to keep up, resulting in pain and shortening the bird’s life. Hummingbirds “visit a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards”

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

What really is going on? The author is clearly stating what happens in the life of a hummingbird all the way to death. It gives details of the death and why the death is occurring.

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.

There are three types of bees in a hive; namely, the queen, worker bees and drones. There is only one queen per hive and her role is to produce more bees (4). This is done by mating with the male bees. After mating, the queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day (4). Drones are male bees and their role is to mate with the queen. Drones spend a considerable amount of time inside the hive; in addition, during early winter

Although the Hummingbird is seen as a charm it seems to mirror her infamously shaped eyebrows.

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.