Frequent Flyer, Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Frequent Flyer, 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.
This could be a Green Violetear
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 4/2/17 in "Animal Photographs"
FEATURED 4/2/17 in "A Birding Group - Wings"
FEATURED 4/2/17 in "Images That Excite You"
FEATURED 4/2/17 in "Photographers From Around The World"
FEATURED 4/3/17 in "The First Friday Gallery"
FEATURED 4/3/17 in "The Collector's Gallery"
FEATURED 4/3/17 in "Birds in Focus"
FEATURED 4/4/17 in "FAA Portraits - Birds"
FEATURED 4/6/17 in "Macro Photography"
FEATURED 4/7/17 in "Wildlife One A Day"
FEATURED 4/11/17 in "Animals and Birds in the Wild"
FEATURED 4/13/17 in "Poetic Poultry"
FEATURED 4/19/17 in "Your Very Best Photography"
FEATURED 4/20/17 in "New FAA Uploads"
FEATURED 5/14/17 in "Kingdom Animalia"
FEATURED 7/23/17 in "The World We See"
WINNER in 12/15/17 in "Travel Art" Challenge "Anything Showing Motion"
FEATURED 1/8/18 in "AAA Images"
FEATURED 1/13/18 in "500 Views"
FEATURED 10/29/18 in "ABC Group - E is for Emerald"
FEATURED 2/13/20 in "Bedroom Art Gallery"
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April 1st, 2017
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Comments (44)
Maxine Billings
WOW, Venetia, what an awesome capture of this beautiful, little bird!!! Love the name you gave it--"Frequent Flyer". :)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the ABC Group's E IS FOR EMERALD GREEN WEEK You are invited to add this to the features archive discussions and in another discussion in ABC Group!
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-)
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your lovely work reaching more than 500 views and graduating from the 200 Club! Tw
Mariola Bitner
Congratulations on your outstanding artwork! It has been chosen to be FEATURED in the group “500 VIEWS.”
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in AAA Images :-)
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you Robyn for the feature for this image in "AAA Images" which makes 17 altogether!
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your lovely art graduating from the 200 Club and reaching over 500 views! tweet