I'd like to introduce you to a new friend. He likes to sing in my backyard in his ridiculously raspy, thin, high-pitched voice. He is very loud for his size. He's a bit glamorous, and has a shiny pink cap and bib that he likes to show off in the light. He and his girlfriend flit about and spill their drinks on our floor, making it sticky.
He's an Anna's Hummingbird- a beautiful, tiny little guy- with attitude. Named after Princess Anna Massena, the dutchess of Rivoli, who was obviously a bit of a looker. Audubon wrote that she was a "... beautiful young woman, not more than twenty, extremely graceful and polite" (Audubon and his Journals I, 1897, p. 314: I got it from Palmer. 1928, The Condor Volume 30, pp. 261-307).
He is also the fastest animal on the planet! Flying at 385 body lengths per second, they reach speeds of around 50mph during their flying displays- reaching G-forces that humans could not endure.
He's an Anna's Hummingbird- a beautiful, tiny little guy- with attitude. Named after Princess Anna Massena, the dutchess of Rivoli, who was obviously a bit of a looker. Audubon wrote that she was a "... beautiful young woman, not more than twenty, extremely graceful and polite" (Audubon and his Journals I, 1897, p. 314: I got it from Palmer. 1928, The Condor Volume 30, pp. 261-307).
He is also the fastest animal on the planet! Flying at 385 body lengths per second, they reach speeds of around 50mph during their flying displays- reaching G-forces that humans could not endure.