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Field Flight Dynamics of Hummingbirds during Territory Encroachment and Defense.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Hummingbirds are known to defend food resources such as nectar sources from encroachment by competitors (including conspecifics). These competitive intraspecific interactions provide an opportunity to quantify the biomechanics of hummingbird flight ...
Katherine M Sholtis   +2 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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Explain: Extinct [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Associate Professor Joe Wilkins and his family spent the summer and fall of 2015 living in an off-the-grid cabin in the Klamath Mountains above the Rogue River of southwest Oregon.
Wilkins, Joe
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The Aerodynamics of Hummingbird Flight

open access: yes, 2007
Hummingbirds fly with their wings almost fully extended during their entire wingbeat. This pattern, associated with having proportionally short humeral bones, long distal wing elements, and assumed to be an adaptation for extended hovering flight, has ...
Greenwalt C.H.   +9 more
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Uncontrolled Burn [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Poetry by Elizabeth ...
Miller, Elizabeth
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Description of a new genus and species of hummingbird from Panama [PDF]

open access: yes, 1911
Since January, 1911, Mr. E. A. Goldman, of the Biological Survey, U.S.Department of Agriculture, has been detailed to the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone to collect mammals and birds in the Canal Zone and adjacent parts of Panama...
Nelson, Edward W.
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Blue-Throated Hummingbird Song: A Pinnacle of Nonoscine Vocalizations

open access: yes, 2000
Little is known about the structure and function of hummingbird vocalizations. We studied the vocalizations of Blue-throated Hummingbirds (Lampornis clemenciae) at two sites in southeastern Arizona. Songs were produced by males and females.
Ficken, Millicent S   +3 more
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Vocalizations distinguish the cryptic giant hummingbird species and clarify range limits

open access: yesJournal of Field Ornithology
Vocal traits are often essential for distinguishing phenotypically cryptic taxa. The hummingbird genus Patagona comprises two species that differ in important aspects of their ecology and physiology but that are near identical in plumage and morphology:
Bryce W Robinson   +4 more
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Pollination Ecology of Castilleja in Mount Rainer National Park [PDF]

open access: yes, 1972
Author Institution: Department of Botany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104The pollination ecology of four species of Castilleja was studied in the Berkeley Park- Yakima Park area of Mt.
Duffield, W. James
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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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