Hummingbird Behavior

Reproduction

Judge Hummingbird in the air, but, contrary to common myth, an officer on a perch. Males arrive in an area and food supply to establish. Fly courtship if females with a chirping sound calls and shows his colorful collar. Many species cause a flight dance to impress the female.

Once paired, the male takes no part in nest building or raising the brood. The female lays a clutch of usually more than 2 eggsa day or two, some as small as a coffee bean. The cubs are blind and have only a bit 'down and a brief statement.

A female can have more than one nest, and can build a new nest, while still concerned about an early brood. A third brood is not known. Fewer women will be seen at the feeder, while small in the nest as it feeds on plants or insects captured in flight (hawking).

The red and Calliope hummingbirds were observed to build a new nesta year over year. Four nests were seen piled up.

A hummingbird nest is the size of a golf ball and about 1 inch deep. Webs are used to attach the nests of twigs.

Grooming

Hummingbird care for their feathers with their bills and claws. Receive oil from a gland near the tail and groom each spring. Head and neck are maintained by their claws like a comb or rubbing on a branch.

Hummerbask in the sun before and fluff their feathers. You can also spread his neck and spread tail or a wing and then the other to catch the sun. water baths are also a favorite of lobster and will bathe in shallow pools, diving belly chin and suggested, with wings, or throw water bills on the back. Lobster, even if a sprinkler system or the dust flying in the rain to fetch water. They perch and groom afterBaden.

Traplining

Hummers feed by sight and check-out is seen as a rule, no matter whether it is a source of food. Hummer we seem determined that our wind chimes will eventually be eaten. Many birds follow a regular in their territory, controlling the sources of food several times a day. This is known traplining. After a steady source of food on the track, or a hummingbird garden with flowering plants in succession or reliable sources of nectar,will go a long way in line with the lobster to go home all season.

Inertia

Drowsiness is a condition in which the metabolic rate lobster is just one fifteenth that of normal sleep. The body temperature can drop 20-50 degrees F and breathing can stop for a while. The bird, the heart rate of more than 1,000 beats per minute, not more than 50 drops. Hummer go into torpor to conserve energy, usually at night and in cooler temperatures as a survival mechanism. Often, the lobster, can apparentlydeaths are only in torpor and is easy to recover "when disturbed.

Predators

Hummingbird nests are plundered for eggs and chicks of snakes, and some large mammals, hummingbirds, but adults are not regular prey. The most common danger, the family pet, happiness is given to an ambush. Birds such as owls, hawks, Road Runners, and other large birds have been known to take lobsters, frogs, spiders and preying mantis.

webs are also dangerous.may become tangled web sites are very strong and sticky and the birds and can actually be wrapped by the spider, as another great "bug".

Bees and wasps may attack a Hummer and a single point may be sufficient to kill the bird because of its small body.

There are reports of frogs catch a hummingbird and a source reports a case of a hummingbird being hit by a low!

Although not considered a plant are ridges of predators, there are three known cases ofHummingbird in Washington, DC, is deadly from burdock burrs caught in Rock Creek Park when they are not strong enough to pull burrs were from the plant.

Migration

Hummingbirds are solitary traveler and migration by age and sex separately. The men begin to north for about three weeks before the females and during the summer the area before the females and young. Some reasons are offered by experts for this behavior, but the reason is that fixed ratesDone.

One reason for the later departure north for females is that a subsequent trip will help ensure that other food sources are available. Hummer couple and not the loss of some men will be less harmful to the survival of the species over the loss of females.

In contrast, the premature departure of the male opens the feeding area, usually heavily protected by the males, for the new brood. Young people are leaving the last winter and hiking in the area without adultLeaders.

And 'Ruby Throat Hummingbirds generally non-stop flight over the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and possibly in both directions. This trip is considered a Hummer 18-20 hours. This is an extraordinary journey, and certainly the journey leads to additional risk of adverse winds, with a small margin of error for the young traveler. Birds lose a quarter to half their body weight during the migration. Scientists believe that birds of stars that move on the roadNight.

Anna hummingbirds migrate in the Pacific Northwest of Washington, Oregon and Vancouver, and can not stand most of the year on a power supply. Move further inland to dictate as food sources. Throughout the year, birds are sometimes also occur on the Gulf Coast and several species, winter Southwest.