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  1. JohnGullion
    September 6, 2017 @ 6:45 pm

    one of the most delightful birds

    observed in coastal mountains in B.C. feeding on pollen

    of spruce trees before flowers are out

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  2. Lamoine Dionne
    September 6, 2017 @ 3:07 pm

    This is a truly beautiful and awesome piece of work. I love all GOD has given us and this is a favorite. Wee and delicate, they are a wonder. I hope we see above

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  3. jan K.
    September 6, 2017 @ 9:33 am

    I live in Texas. I feed the Hummers all year round and they keep coming even in the coldest winter months. They depend on my feeder, and I am happy to do it just to have them around all the time.

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  4. Ron Wilson
    September 6, 2017 @ 1:04 am

    Another unique feature of these amazing birds is they have a way of getting extra oxygen from their breathing. They evolved in thin air high in the Andes with a method of “double breathing” that is not simply panting. I am not sure how it works but perhaps somebody who understands the procedure will post an explanation. These birds are truly remarkable.

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  5. Ron Wilson
    September 6, 2017 @ 12:12 am

    Another interesting fact: because they need to feed every 10 or 20 minutes the way they survive the night without feeding is by going into a torpor, sort of like hibernation. They slow their heatbeat and metabolism and just go to sleep to wait for dawn. Here on the southwest coast of Canada we get Rufus hummers and some leave at the end of summer but a few stay all year so I keep a feeder going on 2 sides of the house for the ones that remain. Amazingly they survive right through the snow and temperatures down to freezing. That’s about as cold as it gets here but they evolved in the Andes mountains where it probably gets colder. They are tough little birds.

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  6. Annette
    September 5, 2017 @ 9:53 pm

    Beautiful film. Thank you. Pardon me for commenting on grammar, but “the largest brain per body size than all other birds” should be “the largest brain per body size among all birds”. “Larger than” but not “the largest than.”

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  7. JD
    September 4, 2017 @ 1:16 pm

    We are seeing creation not evolution. God is awesome!

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  8. Clare
    September 2, 2017 @ 7:47 pm

    We have made it a habit to constantly feed these birds and watch them and
    their funny antics.

    Ray & Clare

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  9. Bram Pater
    August 30, 2017 @ 5:39 pm

    Great video. As I don’t see them in the Netherlands.

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  10. Zan Roberts
    August 30, 2017 @ 12:02 pm

    JUST ONE WORD STUNNING! AGREE WITH JOHN ASCANI !

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