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The Best Hummingbird Nectar Recipe has a History!
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The Best Hummingbird Nectar Recipe has a History!
Hummingbird Spot
2022 Jan 2
Sheri L. Williamson, internationally known hummingbird expert, ornithologist and author of the Peterson Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America, is collaborating with Hummingbird Spot to bring you the latest information about all things hummingbird. In her first video she gives us insight into why we make hummingbird nectar the way we do.
If you want to learn more about hummingbirds check out Sheri's book "Peterson Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America": [link at source]
Resources:
Nectar as food for birds
https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/Nectar-as-food-for-birds-The/991005542889207891
Sugar preferences in hummingbirds
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1368738
Hummingbird metabolism unique in burning glucose, fructose equally
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205165823.htm
[ more resource links at source ]
Hummingbird Spot
2022 Jan 2
Sheri L. Williamson, internationally known hummingbird expert, ornithologist and author of the Peterson Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America, is collaborating with Hummingbird Spot to bring you the latest information about all things hummingbird. In her first video she gives us insight into why we make hummingbird nectar the way we do.
If you want to learn more about hummingbirds check out Sheri's book "Peterson Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America": [link at source]
Resources:
Nectar as food for birds
https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/Nectar-as-food-for-birds-The/991005542889207891
Sugar preferences in hummingbirds
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1368738
Hummingbird metabolism unique in burning glucose, fructose equally
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205165823.htm
[ more resource links at source ]