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Migratory Status Shapes Exploratory Behavior but Not Learning Performance in Hummingbird Color Discrimination

open access: yesBirds
Behavioral flexibility allows animals to adjust their behavior in response to environmental changes. Hummingbirds, with their tetrachromatic color vision and enlarged hippocampal formation, represent an excellent model for studying cognitive flexibility ...
Belgica Porras-Reyes   +2 more
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Energy Management in Migrating Hummingbirds

open access: yes, 2022
Hummingbirds are the smallest of migratory birds. Their use of hovering flight to feed on nectar results in prodigious rates of energy consumption. At night, when birds are unable to feed, body fat must be used to stay warm.
Halter, Shayne
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Letter re: hummingbirds

open access: yes, 1940
Letter from M.T. Stallter, Air Express Service, to W. B.
Stallter, M. T.
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Occurrence of Presumed Lucifer X Black-chinned Hummingbirds in Texas

open access: yes, 2006
This note documents hybrid hummingbirds presumed to be crosses between Lucifer Hummingbirds and Black-chinned Hummingbirds.
Lockwood, Mark W.
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Effects of a snowstorm event on the interactions between plants and hummingbirds: fast recovery of spatio-temporal patterns Efecto de una tormenta de nieve sobre la interacción colibrí-planta: los patrones espacio-temporales se recobran rápido

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2011
The global climatic change could cause, in some places, appearance of meteorological phenomena considered rare. If we understand the effect of these phenomena on birds we can understand how birds respond to weather changes. We report here the effect of a
Román Díaz-Valenzuela   +1 more
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Floral resources and habitat affect the composition of hummingbirds at the local scale in tropical mountaintops

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology
Hummingbird communities tend to respond to variation in resources, having a positive relationship between abundance and diversity of food resources and the abundance and/or diversity of hummingbirds.
LC Rodrigues, M Rodrigues
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Character states for Selasphorus hummingbirds.

open access: yes, 2014
Character states for Selasphorus hummingbirds.
Christopher James Clark (550282)
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Elevational and Seasonal Patterns of Plant–Hummingbird Interactions in a High Tropical Mountain

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
Tropical mountain ecosystems harbor diverse biological communities, making them valuable models for exploring the factors that shape ecological interactions along environmental gradients.
Eugenia M. Sentíes‐Aguilar   +8 more
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For the Birds, Butterflies & Hummingbirds

open access: yes, 2020
This publication examines the habitat requirements for birds, hummingbirds and butterflies, and then gives an overview of planning your garden space to accommodate them.HORT ...
Free, Mary, Close, Dave
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Redes de interacción colibrí-planta del centro-este de México Hummingbird-plant mutualistic networks in central-eastern Mexico

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012
Las interacciones mutualistas han moldeado la biodiversidad en la tierra. A pesar de ello, hasta recientemente era difícil encontrar patrones en la estructura de este tipo de interacciones en las comunidades. En años recientes se ha promovido el análisis
Nubia Zoe Lara-Rodríguez   +8 more
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