Anna's hummingbird chirps with its tail  Robert Sanders,  UC Berkeley News; Jan 30, 2008

MAV- Micro Air Vehicle Based on an Organic Humming Bird Model  Science Magazine; Jun 25, 2007

New Species of Hummingbird Endangered by Drug Industry  Toby Muse, Associated Press; May 15, 2007
Blue-throated Hummingbird Discovered  Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters; May 14, 2007
Flight of Fancy (marvels of micro-engineering)  Michael Klesius, National Geographic; Jan 2007
Tiny Trailblazers (changing migration ranges for western hummers) Scott Weidensaul, National Wildlife; Dec/Jan 2007
Thinking Like a Bird: Hummingbirds and Memory  Joe Eaton, Berkeley Daily Planet; Apr 11, 2006

Hummingbirds sing a precise food tune  CBC News; Mar 6, 2006

Are More Hummingbirds Wintering Over?  D'Vera Cohn, Washington Post; Dec 14, 2005
Energy, work, metabolic syndrome: lessons from hummingbirds James L Hargrove, Nutrition Journal; Dec 2005

Light as a feather, quick as a hummingbird  Ned & Gigi Batchelder, Helena Independent Record; Jul 7, 2005

Master fliers of the bird kingdom  BBC News: Jun 27, 2005

Pictures Reveal How Hummingbirds Hover   Sarah Graham , Scientific American; Jun 23, 2005

Hummingbird Flight an Evolutionary Marvel  David Stauth, OSU News; Jun 22, 2005
Ultra-fast Camera Captures How Hummingbirds Hover  National Science Foundation; Jun 22, 2005
Hummer counters practice catch-and-release banding  Ned & Gigi Batchelder, Helena Independent Record; Jun 16, 2005

Ecotourists relish itty-bitty migrants to Arizona  George Oxford Miller, Boston Globe; May 22, 2005

UW researchers seek hummingbird secrets  Barb Gorges, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle; May 2005

Birders Eye Winter Hummingbirds, Vagrants  Mary Esch, Associated Press; Feb 14, 2005

Hummingbirds - Float Like a Butterfly, Pollinate Like a Bee  Matthew Vanhorn,  Apologetics Press; 2004

Hummingbirds Lose Power at High Altitudes  Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News; Dec 16, 2004
In a Heartbeat (all about hummingbird banding)  Doreen Cubie, Audubon; Oct 2004

Hummingbird Haven: Jesse Hendrix Ranch Jim Nintzel, Tucson Weekly; Jun 3, 2004

Ancient Buzzing: German site yields early hummingbird fossils  Sid Perkins, Science News Online; May 8, 2004

Oldest modern hummingbirds described in Science  Ginger Pinholster, AAAS; May 6, 2004
Hummingbird Heaven (Marion Paton's home in Patagonia) Mathew Tekulsky, National Geographic News; Apr 27, 2004

Flex That Bill: Hummingbirds' surprising insect-catching style  Susan Milius, Science News Online; Apr 10, 2004
Hummingbirds Staying Longer Than Usual  Southeast Missourian; Dec 22, 2003

Haven for Hummers in Colorado Springs  Dianne Zuckerman, Front Range Living; Sep 7, 2003

Things are Humming at Frank & Jackie Janzen's Place  John Hunneman, The Californian; Aug 25, 2003
Hummingbird bill evolution  (as related to flower shape) Associated Press; Apr 25, 2003

Bird Brains   (mysteries of the hummingbird brain) WBUR  Boston audio show, host Dick Gordon; Jan 14, 2003

Rufous - Hummingbird Diet: How To Gain Weight And Keep It  Gregory Gough, Smithsonian Zoo;  Jan, 2003
Hummingbirds Linger On East Coast  Randall Chase, Associated Press; Nov 18, 2002
All the right curves - female's bill enables her to feast  Ethan J. Temeles, Natural History; Nov 2002
Long Reach of Tiny Birds (new conservation efforts between Mexico and US) National Wildlife; Oct-Nov 2002

Tessa Campbell's Anna's Feeding Study  Valerie Shore, University of Victoria; Jun 5 2002

The Superlative Bird  BBC Radio, Mark Carwardine, article and 30 minute must hear audio; May 27, 2002

At the Zoo: Desert Hummers  (all about the Costa's) Alex Hawes, Smithsonian Zoo; Jan/Feb, 2002

Hummingbirds: Frantic and Fascinating  (some history and facts) Terry Dunn, Smithsonian Zoo; Jan/Feb, 2002
Birds Appearing In Strange Places In Audubon Bird Count  Trudy Tynan, Associated Press; Dec 23, 2001
Singing in the Brain (hummingbird vocal learning) Dennis Meredith, Duke Magazine;  Nov-Dec 2001
Whispers in the Canyon (blue-throated hummingbird of Arizona) Kathryn Rusch; July 2001
For the Birds  (coffee plantations and the conservation of migratory birds)  Flower & Garden Magazine; May, 2001
Isn't It a Bloomin' Crime?  (insects take nectar from plants without pollinating)  Science News; April 21, 2001
Singing in the Brain (Hummingbirds do sing. And they learn the tunes from one another) Natural History; Oct 2000
Vocal learning in hummingbirds Erich Jarvis, et al., Nature, vol. 406, 10 Aug, 2000
Flowers, not flirting, make sexes differ  (Caribbean hummingbirds) Science News; July 22, 2000

Hummingbird Hitchhikers  (hummingbird flower mites in Costa Rica) Russell Grigg, Creation; Jun 2000
Why Do Our Hummingbirds Hum?  Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden Newsletter; Summer 2000
Hummingbird Identification #2  Donna L. Dittmann & Steven W. Cardiff, Louisiana Ornithological Society; Feb 2000
Hummingbird Identification #1  Donna L. Dittmann & Steven W. Cardiff, Louisiana Ornithological Society; Nov 1999
Fitting the Bill?  (hummingbird pollination of plants) Ethan J. Temeles; May 1999
Hummingbird Attraction & Photographing with Natural Light  Roger Erich Schuettke, PSA Journal; Apr 1999
Hummingbird's ability to learn affects competitors  (Elizabeth A. Sandlin's study of foraging behavior) Feb 18,1999
Who's on first with hummingbird bills  (hummingbird bill lengths) Science News; Oct 17, 1998
Botanical velcro entraps hummingbirds  (burrs cause bird fatalities) Science News; Oct 17, 1998

Mountain living slows rate of evolution in hummingbirds  Terry Devitt, U of Wisconsin Madison; May 27, 1998
Slow rate of molecular evolution in high-elevation hummingbirds  Robert Bleiweiss, PNAS; Jan 20, 1998

DNA evidence for the lineages of hummingbirds  Bleiweiss, Kirsch & Matheus,  Molecular Biology & Evolution; 1997
Hummingbird MAV  (hummingbird characteristics for adaptation to Micro Air Vehicles) U of Texas - Austin; Spring 1997
Humming to extremes  (extraordinary lives of tiny birds) Charles Ker, University of British Columbia; Jan 23,1997

Interspecific pollen loss by hummingbirds: effects of floral architecture  Carolina Murcia, Ecology; Mar 1996

Foraging ability of Rufous on hummingbird and hawkmoth flowers  V Grant & E J Temeles, PNAS; Oct 1992
High-Powered Hummers  (rufous give all they've got to reach Alaska) University of Alaska Fairbanks; July 15, 1992
The hummingbird - God's tiny miracle  Denis Dreves, Creation; Dec - Feb 1991 - 92

Fuel selection in Rufous hummingbirds: ecological implications of metabolic biochemistry  various, PNAS; Dec 1990

Flight of the Hummingbird  (a Ruby-throat tells it's own migration tale)  Parents and Children Together Online
How do you Weigh a Hummingbird bander Lanny Chambers talks scales and technique
Hummingbirds in Folklore and Legend British Columbia Folklore Society
The Blue Hummingbird  (a religious allegory)  New Life Community Church

Search Journal of Experimental Biology articles (summaries or full text, sample articles below)

• Oxidation rate and turnover of ingested sugar in hovering Anna's, 2007

• Three-dimensional kinematics of hummingbird flight, 2007

• Carbohydrate: Top Hummingbird Fuel, 2007

• Metabolic substrate use and the turnover of endogenous energy reserves in broad-tailed hummingbirds, 2006

• Hummingbirds Fork out for a warm beverage, 2004

• Hummingbirds arrest their kidneys at night, 2004

• The integration of energy and nitrogen balance in the hummingbird, 2003

• Kinematics of hovering hummingbird flight, 2003

• How hummingbirds scale the heights, 2003

• Satisfying Hummingbird's Hunger, 2003

• The ecological and evolutionary interface of hummingbird flight physiology, 2002

• Adaptive thermogenesis in hummingbirds, 2002

• Hovering Performance of Hummingbirds in Hyperoxic Gas Mixtures, 2001
  Food ingestion and water turnover in hummingbirds: how much dietary water is absorbed?, 1999
  Flight thermogenesis and energy conservation in hovering hummingbirds, 1998
  Flight and size constraints: hovering performance of large hummingbirds under maximal loading, 1997
  Hummingbird hovering energetics during moult of primary flight feathers, 1997
  Transient hovering performance of hummingbirds under conditions of maximal loading, 1997
  Limits to flight energetics of hummingbirds hovering in hypodense and hypoxic gas mixtures, 1996
  Hummingbird hovering performance in hyperoxic heliox: effects of body mass and sex, 1996
  Ecological Correlates of  Hovering Flight of Hummingbirds, 1993

• Muscle Performance in Hovering Hummingbirds, 1993

• Oxygen consumption during hover-feeding in free-ranging Anna hummingbirds, 1986
   

Search of BioOne (type "hummingbirds" in "Anywhere in Article" box, select "submit") (abstracts only without subscription)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology articles (summaries or full text)

• Digestive Limitations in Hummingbirds, 2000
  Maximal Horizontal Flight Performance of Hummingbirds: Effects of Body Mass and Molt, 1999

Todd Jason McWhorter  Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona 

• The integration of diet, physiology, and ecology of nectar-feeding birds. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 73(3): 451-460 (2000)
  Food ingestion and water turnover in hummingbirds: How much dietary water is absorbed? Journal of Experimental Biology 202(20): 2851-2858 (1999) 

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