“You have to clean (hummingbird feeders) often (in the summer) because the heat can allow bacteria to grow,” he said. “I think that when people feed birds, they fall in love with birds, and that is great for conservation.” “Birds don’t need us … There’s no bird that can’t find food in April – they’ve been doing it for a million years,” he laughed. “We feed birds because we like it,” Betchkal started. Hummingbirds are bright and display varying color sequences, tail lengths, shapes, and beaks.īut, as always, we have to be responsible with how we interact with them. They can lick up to 13 times per second and eat nectar, insects, and spiders. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world with a tongue that rolls all the way up into the back of their head, ultraviolet vision, and the fastest metabolism among their winged peers. There is only one Hummingbird species that is native to Wisconsin – the Ruby Throated Hummingbird – however, many come to visit our gorgeous state. there's no bird that can't find food in april – they've been doing it for a million years. We feed birds because we like it birds don't need us. In conversation with Betchkal, a few things were noted for folks to know about their bird feeders and the winged friends who visit them. Here in the Chippewa Valley, the weather is finally offering consistent warmth, birds are chirping at sunrise, and the birders come out to play with binoculars on hand and bird feeders filled with hopes to see a jewel from the sky. Hummingbirds fly uniquely throughout the Western Hemisphere and are unlike other birds from wing motion to food source. “If you take a hummingbird and distill it down to its most intense and concentrated elements … (you get) energy, color, brilliance, (and) courage,” Steve Betchkal, a local ornithologist, said. Learn from local ornithologist Steve Betchkal about Hummingbirds, and how to best support them. Our feathered friends are out to play by this time of year, thought their numbers are shrinking.
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