Wednesday 13 July 2022

Hummingbirds like to fly low

 


Image curtesy of Jerome Gawe. 

 

Joel  Kontinen

Some birds like to fly higher than others, However, not the Anna’s hummingbirds (Calypte anna)

At what hights do hummingbirds fly.ssome, for instance the Anna’s hummingbirds seem to fly aunder 2,600 metererses..


it seems that God decided what altitude hghts birds fly,  

 

Austin Spence, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis and colleagues collected 26 from different elevations in the birds’and found that them flew at under 2, 600 metrers. 


Source_ 


Crowell, High altitudes may be a climate refuge for some birds, but not these hummingbsirScience News 6 May