Hummingbirds sometimes use their unmatched flying skills for something other than feeding on flowers–for fighting over them. Flowers in full bloom are a call to arms. It’s fight and flight – a display of skill and fiery tempers.
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Flowers in full bloom are a call Its fight and flight a displa and fiery tempers.
The bills they dip daintily into they now wield as weapons.
Gravity means nothing to them.
High speed maneuvers are a show wheeling... colliding flying ba Now they push themselves to the Hearts beating xx times a second they spend every last molecule o every ounce of fuel.
But at 500 frames per second, th are a breathtaking ballet.
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