Intense

by Marcia Breznay

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Intense

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Marcia Breznay

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Photograph - Photograph-digital

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Close-up of a Anna's hummingbird. They are intense little creatures and fascinating to me.
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Anna's Hummingbird is 3.9 to 4.3 inches (10 to 11 centimeters) long. It has a bronze-green back, a pale grey chest and belly, and green flanks. Its bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has an iridescent crimson-red crown and throat, and a dark, slightly forked tail. Anna's is the only North American hummingbird species with a red crown. Females and juveniles have a green crown, a grey throat with some red markings, a grey chest and belly, and a dark, rounded tail with white tips on the outer feathers.
These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue. They also consume small insects caught in flight. They aim for the flying insect, then open their beaks very wide. That technique has a greater success rate than trying to aim the end of a long beak at the insect.
While collecting nectar, they also assist in plant pollination. This species sometimes consumes tree sap.[4]
A recent study [5] found that the Anna's hummingbird can shake their bodies 55 times per second while in flight. This shimmy, when done in dry weather, can shake off pollen or dirt from their feathers similar to how a wet shake by a dog removes water. This rate of shaking is the fastest of any vertebrate on earth.[6]-Wikipedia

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FAA Featured Image
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Amateur Photographers
ABC Group - I for Intense

Canon EOS Didgital Rebel XSi f5.6-1/250sec-ISO640-250mm

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August 22nd, 2013

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