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These tiny creatures are losing their battle to survive. Here’s what we can do to save them

Author:     Amy Chillag
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     Fri April 21, 2023 | 9:36 AM EDT
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Birds and Bees are suffering terrible losses, and this is an easy problem where for modest sums to can make a difference and foster wellbeing. Set up bird feeders with seed for most birds, and sugar water feeders for hummingbirds. Four parts water to one part white sugar. Wherever you live plant flowers for the bees, and put out food for the birds. Your wellbeing as well as theirs will be improved.

The Rufous Hummingbird has lost two-thirds of its population since 1970.
Credit: Eivor Kuchta/Shutterstock

The Rufous Hummingbird is magical. The male’s iridescent throat glows brighter than a shiny copper penny and like most hummingbirds, whizzes through the air curiously hovering right in front of humans who ponder them. The first time Mike Parr, president of the American Bird Conservancy, saw one, it was feeding on blossoms of a lemon tree in California.

“It was just one of those other-worldly sites. It was almost like a religious experience,” says Parr with awe and reverence.

“When they just turn their head and suddenly their throat catches the light – it lights up with this amazing color. It’s just magical, really. It just lights up like a beacon.”

They are one of the smallest hummingbirds at just over 3 inches long- but one of the feistiest.

They fly an astonishing 3,900 miles (one-way) from Alaska where they live in the summer to Mexico- one of the longest migratory journeys of any bird in the world compared to its body size, according to […]

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