Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird covered in pollen
Detailed Description
Hummingbirds are important pollinators! They have long slender bills to sip nectar from flowers, and occasionally they pick up pollen unknowingly helping flowers reproduce by carrying it from plant to plant. Check out the white pollen on the top of this birds head and bill. This adult female Ruby-throated Hummingbird bird caught for banding and data collection under USGS bird banding permit.
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Why Do We Band Birds?
Bird banding data are useful in both scientific research and management and conservation projects. Individual identification of birds makes possible studies of dispersal and migration, behavior and social structure, life-span and survival rate, reproductive success and population growth.
Related
Why Do We Band Birds?
Bird banding data are useful in both scientific research and management and conservation projects. Individual identification of birds makes possible studies of dispersal and migration, behavior and social structure, life-span and survival rate, reproductive success and population growth.