Odd Gyrations of Hummingbirds
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I would like to ask if anyone has observed a sort of dance or gymnastic exercise of the hummingbird similar to that which I once witnessed? It was just after sunset of a clear, bright day in San Mateo, Cal., when I noticed a male Anna hummingbird making great circles in the air at a very rapid rate. The plane of the circle was perpendicular and I should judge it was fifteen feet in diameter. He rose somewhat more slowly than he swung down again, hut the whole movement reminded me of a stone whirled at the end of a very long string. Was this to impress the female or merely for the joy of motion?
Berkeley, Cal.
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Head, Anna
(1902)
"Odd Gyrations of Hummingbirds,"
Condor: Vol. 4
:
Iss.
4
, Article 25.
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol4/iss4/25