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My little old man Black-Chinned Hummingbird is back laughing at your 21 degrees F "extreme cold warning"

dunno if i'm as brave as he is but i should probably make time today to go outside and grab a decent picture, my shots through window glass are terrible...

#Birds #Birding #Hummingbird #Hummingbirds #WinterStorm #Brrrr

Save Black-breasted #puffleg of the #Yanacocha Reserve

https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/01/26/an-ancient-forest-in-ecuador-is-the-last-stand-for-a-tiny-hummingbird-facing-extinction #hummingbirds #ornithology #wildlife #conservation #quito #climate #climatechange

GUYS hummingbirds are not iguanas, they do not "freeze," they go into torpor & will wake up good as new so PLEASE if you can monitor your feeders keep them up so they will have food available

some of my neighbors make this mistake every year, not bad for me, their winter hummingbirds then end up in my yard & in the yards of other hummingbird fans in the know but...

you could be enjoying them too...

#Bird #Birds #Hummingbird #Hummingbirds #Garden #Yard #Wildlife #BirdFeeders #Winter

Secret Lives of Costa Rica’s Hummingbirds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0iXU4SbP0

Learn about the biology and ecology of these sparkeling jewels of the rainforest.

#HummingBirds #CostaRica #RainForests #CloudForests #Biodiversity

Buff-tailed coronet for #BirdOfTheDay #Poise (All Bird Are Poised). 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a buff-tailed coronet (Boissonneaua flavescens) perched on the end of a dead, moss-covered branch. It is an iridescent deep green colored hummingbird with a relatively short, thin black beak, a small white spot behind its dark eye, and reddish-brown wings and tail. It is facing toward the left of frame with a pale blurred green background.

#Hummingbirds are more than just the fairy-like, fragile beauties they're often portrayed as. 🧚‍♂️🪶
They're also aggressive fighters. ⚔️

Here you can read about the "dark side" of hummingbirds in my latest Beaks & Bones newsletter! 👇
https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/dagger-bills

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#scicomm #beaksandbones #biology #birds #birdsofmastodon #science

Photo of a hummingbird in flight. White text on the photo:
These hummingbirds evolved dagger-like bills for aggressive fights
Male hermit hummingbirds use their sharp, long, and straight bills in aggressive fights--all to impress females.

sharing is caring!!!

you don't wanna know how many shots i had to fire off to get an image of 3 nicely spaced hummingbirbs like this -- from left to right-- molting White-necked Jacobin, Steely-vented Hummingbird, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

#Bird #Birding #Hummingbirds #Biodiversity #Neotropics #BirdIdentification #FlashPhotography #Wildlife #BIrdPhotography #Nature

A photo centered on a large pink and red flower that is hosting 3 hummingbirds of 3 different species-- an immature White-necked Jacobin (left), Steely-vented Hummingbird (center,) and Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (right). Aracauna Lodge, CO. Nov 2025. Photo by Peachfront.

perhaps because they are so maneuverable, hummingbirds fear nothing & can be one of the easiest subjects for a beginner to practice with

garden hummingbirds used to coming to feeders don't seem bothered at all by flash setups...

#Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #FlashPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #Birding #Hummingbirds #Biodiversity #Neotropics #Wildlife

A pink and purple tropical flower at the end of a leafy branch is being approached from the left by a green hummingbird with a long black vertical stripe down her white undersides. On the right, the incoming bird is green with a blue head, white nape, shiny green back and white tail. The left bird is a Black-throated Mango adult female. The right hand bird is the White-necked Jacobin adult, 90% chance he's a male, 10% chance she's a female. (The other 90% of females have a different plumage.) Aracauna Lodge, CO. Nov 2025. Photo by Peachfront.

my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 2: the #urbanEcology of feeding animals like #gardenBirds and #squirrels

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-urban-ecology-of-feeding-birds-and.html

#science #ecology #birds #cities #urbanEvolution #hummingbirds

Live webcam of beautiful, multiple #Hummingbirds by the Panama Hummingbird Feeder Cam (located 35 miles north of Panama City, Panama).

Scroll past the lizard hanging out atop the feeder at night (unless you're interested in lizard behaviour).

Part of the largest live nature cam network by the National Audubon Society.

#birding

https://www.youtube.com/live/X5Kubf-twKw

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

hummingbirds are so cool

#wildlifephotography #photography #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds

that last moment of innocence
all your dreams in reach
before you hear the hovering wings
of rufous-tailed hummingbird
here to shove you aside!!!

#Birds #Hummingbirds #Birding #BirdFeeder #Photograph #BIrdsOfMastodon #Moodtains

A truly tiny hummingbird approaches a (by comparison) enormous hummingbird feeder shiny with fresh nectar. The hummingbird is hovering just above the flower shaped feeder spout. Behind is the blurred shape of a larger aggressive hummingbird already flaring their tail. The little guy is an immature male Purple-throated Woodstar, the big bully is the highly successful & widespread species, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird. La FInca Aracauna, CO. Nov 2025. Photo by Peachfront. (For those who have questions--I know the little guy is a male because in some of my images I can see the beginnings of the purple throat starting to grow in as a dark smudge in the center, you probably can't see it in this photo, I only see it cuz I know it's there.)

The backyard was crowded with hummingbirds enjoying our planted native shrubs, so what the heck. Here’s some photos taken in very poor lighting conditions (cloudy, mid-morning, and winter) #Hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #Birds #Fujifilm #SOoC

A hummingbird is perched in a California rose, showing a red stripe on its throat. It's otherwise gray and brown. There's a blurry branch obscuring the lower part of the bird.

A hummingbird is perched on an elderberry branch that has fresh grown leaves. The little bird has an olive head and a dirty-yellow to gray chest and belly. It is looking to the right and the background is blurred out.

"the double take"

#SilentSunday #Birds #Hummingbirds #Cute #BirdsOfMastodon #Birding #Flower #Bloomscrolling #Neotropics #Garden #Wildlife

A photograph of a large pink flower against the blur of a green garden background. There are two hummingbirds contesting the flower. The bird in the lower center is hovering with her head twisted around as if to ask the viewer, "WTF?" while the bird on the upper right is poking greedily into the flower. The upper bird is a 90% chance male or 10% chance female in the so-called "male" plumage of White-necked Jacobin. The outraged bird with the reddish / maroonish tail, and white throat dlvided by a thick black vertical band is a female Black-throated Mango, and she has been defending this flower against all comers. Aracauna Lodge, Colombia. Nov 2025. Photo by Peachfront.

not sure about this edit of the Long-tailed Sylph female being heckled by the Bronzy Inca

they were fighting over a feeder but i tried to swap out the feeder for a nearby flower... may work on it again later since it's the only really good photo of the female LT Sylph that i've got

#Birds #Hummingbirds #PostProcessing #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Wildlife #Garden

A photograph of a stout hummingbird with a rusty breast being chased by a brown hummingbird right behind her. This the female Long-tailed Sylph (she doesn't have a long tail) being chased by the Bronzy Inca. Reserva La Rivera, Colombia. Nov 2025. Photo by Peachfront.

"get off my feeder, u big galoot!" -- angry attack rackettail

seriously, despite their long tails, rackettails are really tiny hummingbirds, the bird on the feeder is a more mid-sized hummingbird called a Fawn-breasted Brilliant

#Birds #Hummingbirds #Feeders #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Gardens

#Hummingbirds

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