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What do you get when you cross a Broad-billed with a Violet-crowned???
3/20/07
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Broad-billed_Hummingbird.html
http://www.gf.state.az.us/w_c/edits/documents/Amazviol.d.pdf
http://enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recnum=BD0537
THE ABOVE LINKS WILL TELL YOU MUCH MORE ABOUT EACH OF THESE TWO BIRDS
That is the two birds it took to make this one :-))
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Hybridizing of Hummingbirds is more frequent than in most other bird types,
Many of them are found right here in Arizona.
This bird was captured and banded as you see.
Photographed at Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior, Arizona
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Now that we ave seen the bird-here are the parents,
of course these are not its actual parents but the species type that made the Hybridization possible.
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First the Broad-billed hummer
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Now the Violet-crowned Hummer
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