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Sword-billed Hummingbird - Ecuador (Original Post)
Donkees
Jan 2023
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. Wow!
cyclonefence
(4,907 posts)2. How does he preen and do whatever else
birds use their bills for? This is spectacular.
Donkees
(32,467 posts)3. His feet :) See video at 2:30 time stamp:
This guy can get into the deepest flower, but I'm not sure the inconvenience of being the Cyrano of birdland is a fair trade-off.
TY!