The Buff Bellied Humming Bird

Audubon speaks about the phenomenon in seemingly awestruck way, noting their power and magnitude while noting the birds’ formation as a natural wonder. A striking characteristic of his description is his

Every week, Oregonian Pat Johnston makes a 45-mile pilgrimage to Chehalem Mountain, she is on a serious mission. Her journey doesn't revolve around hiking, climbing, or mountain biking, however, she comes for the birds. During her weekly excursions, Johnston circles the mountain. Frequently stopping to check on the well-being of more than 30 bluebird nest boxes. And their

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.

The book setting takes place in Mexico City in 1583 at a convent. Father Benito Lara was a Franciscan monk around 27 years old with a medium build, lean, clear tone, chestnut color hair thin to baldness identifying himself as the new confessor at the convent. The father was approached a private corner where an older woman Huitzitzilin 82 years old also known as Hummingbird frail with yellowish tone skin, small face, skeletal, dark marks, stringy white hair waiting to stated her last confession. Openly of her conversation with the father, Huitzitzilin describes her people splintered by the Spaniards, cast out, rooted out and beaten. The people had suffered from hunger and pestilence and felt like foreigners in their own rural area, these were powerful words coming from Huitzitziln. Zintle was the cousin of Huitzitziln and her first love during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico also the father to her unborn child. Huitzitzilin was different from others that was instructed about the aborigines of Mexico because the way she spoke about cultural repression of European religious, the struggle between gender oppression and duties of being a woman. Women are considered of less importance even in our world today, where we are supposed to have equality.

Watching this film Bird by Bird about this writer named Annie, showed us how she takes her life and writing as free flowing but also have the opposite side of having road blocks with hard to swallow situations .It is rather interesting how she expresses her writing in a such real raw vibe that people can make a connection from her writing. They way she handles herself in real life transfers onto how she approaches her writing, which to me I find it a rare quality in a creative person in this type of area. Why I find it is rare is because usually a writer has a format to go about to write a short story or any other format there is rules to go by but she however does not apply that in fact she does the complete opposite. How she goes towards writing is by emotion and does not sweat the fact whatever idea she trying to jot down on paper she is not worrying about having the idea to be perfect in the minutes she is taking to get her idea on paper.

The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner explores evolution through the most famous examples in history—the finches of the Galápagos Islands. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the process of evolution are applied directly to what scientists refer to as Darwin’s Finches. Weiner follows scientists Peter and Rosemary Grant as they study the finches in real time on the Galápagos. Years of previous work, study and data is collected and analyzed. Different species of animals are observed and explained throughout history. The Grants have one goal, and that is to find the origin of the species, how organisms first began. They find that it really is about the “survival of the

When thinking of birds, visualizing them building their nests in cacti certainly isn't the first thing that comes to mind. In the book, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, metaphorically everyone is constantly building their nests in cacti, and evolving from their experiences. From living in attics to taking trips across the country with no destination, characters in this book don't live what society considers the “conventional American lifestyle.” Growing and thriving in unexpected and unusual places and ways is nothing but average throughout the book. Taylor, despite unorthodox living arrangements or lifestyle, shows how living things are able to find methods of growing and changing. From great change in location to change within

portray the early life of Ernesto Galarza, it also does a tremendous job of capturing the essence of

Brennan French 10/22/14 Mrs. Yeates 3 Red Flamingo In the essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, the author Jennifer Price provides a brief history of the flamingo, but she does more than just describe the bird. She creates a far more significant insight through her tone, word choice and use of examples. Which leads her to analyze the American mindset along with the culture. Price begins the essay with a sense of thrill due to her use of the words “boldness” and “splashed”.

stays out of the way until two of the larger hummingbirds begin to fight about the food source.

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

With “The Feathered Pillow.”,”Alma”, and “Lights Out” they all had one thing in common other than the purpose to scare the audience. It was transformed because without that the story would be plain and boring with nothing to really scare the people watching or reading. That purpose of change can be as tiny as a character going mad or insane to the whole story taking a giant twist! It’s good to have that because it will always keep the people watching in suspense and always guessing only to get scared and laugh afterwards. Yet now that changed is used so often to scare would it be possible to not use transformation at all and merely rely on descriptions of the things happening? Would it make the story just as scary and frightening if it had

In the novel “The Yellow Birds” by Kevin Powers the story is based on a twenty-one year old soldier and his experience in the war in Iraq. The twenty-one year old man’s name is John Bartle, a survivor of the war. The novel explains about the casualties and numerous amounts of times that John is surrounded by death and decay in Al Tafar, jumping back and forth through time explaining his experiences before and after the war. This novel is a very well written story; in some ways like a riddle keeping the reader on the edge of their seats forcing them to follow the book. At some points of the story, it becomes confusing because of how casual and emotionless John is when he speaks of death. One of the

A two-sectioned chamber, separated by a divider, was constructed from standard birdcages, along with colored sidings, yellow and green, in each chamber. Pre-treatment preferences was determined by the placing of the finches in the middle of both

Lodi talked about the emerging issues in his pupils’ individual compositions, and the success, or failure, of their compositions. He noticed that when children chose what to write about, their compositions were more successful, something that highlighted their interest in the argument or theme they proposed as an important component of a successful text. The pupils’ written texts, their drawings, and paintings, all became the focus of collective discussions, and students were encouraged to express their opinion on the work of their peers. Lodi became more and more convinced that this was a successful way to inspire his students to write and express their views. It was through this exercise in collective writing, followed by discussions, that he and his pupils published a book entitled Cipí printed by a small publishing company in 1961. Because of its acclaimed success, it was later republished by Einaudi, one of the most important publishing companies in Italy, becoming a classic in Italian children literature. The story narrates the adventures of a little sparrow. It was inspired by Lodi’s pupils, who, as they were looking outside the window of their classroom, saw a sparrow brooding some eggs. They began to write a fictional account of it, accompanied by their own drawings of the different moments of the story. Lodi recalled in his diary that pupils were so excited that, when summer break arrived, they asked him if they could continue to come to school to complete the