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The Food of Hummingbirds

โœ Scribed by Frederic A. Lucas


Book ID
123897932
Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1893
Tongue
English
Weight
241 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0004-8038

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Hummingbirds selected food in choice experiments based primarily on sugar concentration and secondarily on rate of intake and position. Sugar compositions had little effect on food choice, but the preferred sugar compositions appear to be the most common in nectars of plants visited by hummingbirds.