Hover the Hummingbird Travel Tag Humm-dinger the Hummingbird Travel Tag

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Released:
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Origin:
Florida, United States
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Hummingbirds are New World birds that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) range. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm bee hummingbird, weighing less than a U.S. penny (2.5g).

They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, typically around 50 times per second, allowing them also to fly at speeds exceeding 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph), backwards.

Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal. To conserve energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they go into torpor, a state similar to hibernation, slowing metabolic rate to 1/15th of its normal rate.

Now that you know a bit about hummingbirds, help Humm-dinger migrate as much as his real life counterparts.  Help him in his mission to see the world! Post pictures of him at your local landmarks, no matter how significant or insignificant you may feel the landmark is.  Post the name of the landmark and the city it's located in so Humm-dinger's owner (me) can see where he's been! Remember, keep him moving! After all, bird's love to fly! Thanks!

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Humm-dinger

Humm-dinger, the Hummingbird Travel Tag. Not collectible. Keep him migrating!

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Tracking History (45297.1mi) View Map

Visited 6/23/2018 giddyupNwhoa took it to We'll Never Forget 9/11 #15b Rhode Island - 76.64 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/23/2018 giddyupNwhoa took it to Memorial Mayhem #2 Union Connecticut - 62.73 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/23/2018 giddyupNwhoa took it to Estey Organ Works Vermont - 43.1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/22/2018 giddyupNwhoa took it to Biking Moose Stumping Ground Massachusetts - 2,425.89 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/26/2018 giddyupNwhoa retrieved it from Wasco Butte L.O.T. Oregon   Visit Log

We love hummingbirds. Here in Oregon we have Anna's and Rufous hummingbirds that visit our hummingbird feeder. We keep ours out year around and it is heated with a little light bulb. We have even been fortunate enough to find hummingbird nests in our back yard in trees and shrubs. Last year we had one at eye level view from a window and watched the eggs for days waiting. Once we watched the practice flight of baby hummingbirds on a branch. They hung on the branch and flapped their wings moving left and right. When they finally took off it was as though they had always flown. Amazing! We will take this little traveler on a journey and drop it off in an appropriate cache!
Dropped Off 3/22/2017 LPS_WOLF placed it in Wasco Butte L.O.T. Oregon - 5.85 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/21/2017 LPS_WOLF took it to Not what you might think : Two turtle doves Oregon - 1.56 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/20/2017 LPS_WOLF took it to Volunteer Park Oregon - 65.91 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/18/2017 LPS_WOLF took it to Cream Filling Oregon - 7.42 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/3/2017 LPS_WOLF took it to Ilchee, Moon Girl Washington   Visit Log
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