Provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, and botanists who want to learn more about the plants of the White Mountains in east-central Arizona.
Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.
Hummingbirds may be the smallest birds in the world, but they have the biggest appetites. Their wings flutter on average 50 to 80 times each second as they visit hundreds of flowers over the course of a day to sip the sweet nectar that sustains them. This work offers an overview of hummingbird biology, discussing their morphology and behavior.
