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15-SEP-2007

Torpor - Black and Blue Migration September 15

We discovered this migrant "sleeping" on the stem of a Salvia Guaranitica early one morning after temps had dipped into the low 40's the previous night. It was our first time witnessing a hummingbird in torpor, a type of deep sleep where they can lower their metabolic rates by as much as 95% to deal with the change in temperatures.


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