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Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
These amazing little birds will love visiting your garden if you hang a feeder for them and have bright flowers, especially red and orange.
Facts About Hummingbirds
-they are known for their rapid flight; their strong wing beat is so rapid that it produces a hum, which accounts for their name.
-they like flowers that are bright and that open during the day.
-they have unusually large hearts that make about 300 beats per minute when the bird is at rest and about 500-1200 beats per minute when the bird is active.
-they are the only birds known to fly backwards.
-most hummingbird's feet and legs are so small that they cannot walk or even hop; hummingbirds mostly use their legs and feet for perching, the toes and claws are very long
Mobile Feeder
Garden Ballet 26004-1 Hummingbird Feeder Mobile
Amazon.com Review
For the true hummingbird enthusiast, this feeder mobile is a beautiful combination of form and function. The three nectar containers are made of rugged, scratch-resistant tempered glass. Each container offers two "no bees allowed" feeding ports, and together they hold 30 ounces of nectar. The sculpted arms of the mobile and the hummingbird ornament at the top are made of durable, rust-resistant metal and handpainted in vibrant colors. The whole thing assembles within minutes and the nectar containers are easy to fill and clean. A hanging chain is included. --Erin Brown
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 01/08/2010) 
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Hummingbirds are birds comprising the family Trochillidae. They are among the smallest of birds, and include the smallest extant bird species, the Bee Hummingbirds. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 12-90 times per second (depending on the species). They can also fly backwards, and are the only group of birds able to do so.Robert S. Ridgely and Paul G. Greenfield, "The Birds of Ecuador volume 2- Field Guide", Cornell University Press, 2001 Their English name derives from the characteristic hum made by their rapid wing beats. They can fly at speeds exceeding 15 m/s (54 km/h, 34 mi/h).Clark and Dudley 2009. Flight costs of long, sexually selected tails in hummingbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. Published online, Mar 2009.
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