NEWS

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Bendy bills allow hummingbirds to down nectar at lightning speeds (Cosmos Magazine, 2024) (https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/bendy-bills-hummingbirds-nectar/)

Hummingbird bills are an evolutionary wonder (earth.com, December 2024) (https://www.earth.com/news/hummingbird-bills-are-an-evolutionary-wonder/)
That’s no straw: Hummingbirds evolved surprisingly flexible bills to help them drink nectar (Phys.org, December 2024)(https://phys.org/news/2024-12-straw-hummingbirds-evolved-flexible-bills.html)
Hear it again: Documenting local hummingbirds (KUOW news & stories, March 2024) (https://www.kuow.org/stories/hear-it-again-documenting-local-hummingbirds)

Hummingbird Supermodels: Using Photography to Create 3D Models (Burke Museum’s News & Stories, September 2022) (https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-hummingbirds-feed-fight)

How Hummingbirds Feed and Fight (Burke Museum’s News & Stories, April 2020) (https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-hummingbirds-feed-fight)

He Knows His Hummingbirds (University of Washington Magazine, March 2020) (https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/hummingbirds-sing-to-burke-museums-resident-expert/)

Animal Slander! Debunking ‘Birdbrained’ and ‘Eat Like a Bird’ (NPR’s Shortwave, April 2020)
(https://www.npr.org/transcripts/840338275)

A Honeybee’s Tongue Is More Swiss Army Knife Than Ladle (New York Times’ Trilobites, August 2020) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/science/honeybees-drink-video.html

Can hummingbirds do math? Read this work and commentary by several biologists in this Forbes article. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/saratabin/2020/07/15-not-bird-brains-research-suggests-hummingbirds-use-numbers-to-find-flowers)

Not Bird Brains: Research Suggests Hummingbirds Use Numbers To Find Flowers (Forbes, July 2020)

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology “Physical Mechanisms of Behavior” Symposium Upcoming events, 2020 (Symposia Organization and Presentations) (SICB symposium)

Some male hummingbirds wield their bills as weapons (ScienceNews for Students, February 2019)
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/some-male-hummingbirds-wield-their-bills-weapons