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Ornithology (BIRDS) with James Maley

Ologies with Alie Ward

Humming Birds Attack People During Swooping Season

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The fastest recorded rate is about 80 beats per second, but the average is around 53 beats per second. The bee humming bird in cuba has a heart rate of 12 hundred beets per minute. Swifts and chimneys are supersimilar, but you can pretty much know which one you're looking at depending on where you are. Birds sound like your drunk uncle at the holidays who makes remarks that everyone ignores. Can owls really turn their heads? It's called an american coot,. And most people don't pay any attention to them.

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