Summer Delight
by Darren Fisher
Title
Summer Delight
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful capture of a humming bird feeding off of a purple coneflower. I have used a texture so the image would have the look of a painting. Hummingbirds have many skeletal and flight muscle adaptations which allow the bird great agility in flight. Muscles make up 25�30% of their body weight, and they have long, blade-like wings that, unlike the wings of other birds, connect to the body only from the shoulder joint. This adaptation allows the wing to rotate almost 180�, enabling the bird to fly not only forward but fly backward, and to hover in front of flowers as it feeds on nectar or hovers mid-air to catch tiny insects. Hummingbirds are the only known birds that can fly backward.
During hovering, (and likely other modes of flight) ruby-throated hummingbird wings beat 55 times per second.
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July 24th, 2014
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