{"id":8497,"date":"2012-04-27T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2014-11-27T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T20:47:28","slug":"black-chinned-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/black-chinned-hummingbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-Chinned Hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally mustered up some patience to snag some flight shots of hummingbirds. How’d that happen? They’re all Black-chinned guys and gals and they’re all pretty fancy. In other news…? Finally some some fun migrant warblers (a Blackburnian and Wilson’s) but it’s so slow here. A two day weekend would be great so I could go check out High Island before the time’s up, but it doesn’t look like that’ll happen this year. Sigh. Maybe next year?<\/p>\n

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These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue or catch insects on the wing. While collecting nectar, they also assist in plant pollination.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Because of their small size, they are vulnerable to insect-eating birds and animals. This bird is fairly common in its breeding range.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) are migratory and spend most of the winter in Mexico.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri)<\/p>\n

Jill Wussow Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally mustered up some patience to snag some flight shots of hummingbirds. How’d that happen? They’re all Black-chinned guys and gals and they’re all pretty fancy. In other news…? Finally some some fun migrant warblers (a Blackburnian and Wilson’s) but it’s so slow here. A two day weekend would be great so I could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":8445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hummer5.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}