Frequent Flyer 2, Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Frequent Flyer 2, Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.5 to 13 cm (3 to 5 in). Indeed, the smallest extant (not extinct) bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm bee hummingbird weighing less than 2.5 g.
They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, typically around 50 times per second, allowing them also to fly at speeds exceeding 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph).
Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal. To conserve energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they go into torpor, a state similar to hibernation, slowing metabolic rate to 1/15th of its normal rate.
FEATURED 4/6/17 in "FAA Portraits Birds"
FEATURED 4/7/17 in "A Birding Group - Wings"
FEATURED 4/7/17 in "Wildlife One A Day"
FEATURED 4/9/17 in "Birds in Focus"
FEATURED 4/10/17 in "FAA Portrait Gallery"
FEATURED 4/10/17 in "Images That Excite You"
FEATURED 4/13/17 in "All Natural Beauty of This World"
FEATURED 4/14/17 in "Lady Photographers"
FEATURED 4/19/17 IN "Your Very Best Photography"
FEATURED 5/15/17 in "The World We See"
FEATURED 8/16/17 in "Wild Birds of the World"
FEATURED 2/16/18 in "The ABC Group"
FEATURED 3/30/18 in "500 Views 1 Image a Day"
FEATURED 3/30/18 in "Macro Marvels"
FEATURED 5/18/20 in "1000 Views"
FEATURED 5/22/20 in "10 Plus"
FEATURED 5/22/20 in "Beautiful Birds"
FEATURED 5/23/20 in "First Friday Gallery"
FEATURED 5/26/20 in "Travel Art"
FEATURED 10/8/21 in "A Woman's Touch"
FEATURED 10/14/21 in "The Wonder of Wings"
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Comments (47)
Gary F Richards
Outstanding hummingbird composition, lighting, shading, stunning color and artwork! F/L voted
Hartmut Jager
🍀 Who says there are no Flying Emeralds ! ? - Venetia, your fabulous Art-Photograph proves that they are lots of 'Frequent Emerald Flyers' around ! - 🙂 -
Gary F Richards
Spectacular composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! F/L Voted for this piece in the contest FOCUS ON WILDLIFE AND OR THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Tatiana Travelways
Congratulations - Your beautiful artwork has been featured in the "Travel Art" gallery at Fine Art America! For further promotion, you can post it to the specific Travel Destinations galleries, our Facebook group and our Pinterest board - All the links are provided on our group's homepage.
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #14 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Patricia Hofmeester
Wonderful capture!
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you very much, Patricia. They are difficult to photograph fr obvious reasons!!
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your lovely work reaching more than 500 views and graduating from the 200 Club! Tw
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations,! Your artwork has been Featured by the - ABC GROUP Z IS FOR ZOE theme! You are invited to archive it in the Feature thread LF
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you Pamela for the feature in the ABC group - "Z is for Zoe"
William Tasker
Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
Debby Pueschel
She is simply beautiful!! Hummingbirds are just the most exciting birds to photograph! FLPGTw
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured on the World We See Group:-)
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you for the feature in "The World We See" Robyn and welcome back!