Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Allen’s Hummingbird and Pollen

With their winter holidays in Mexico over, Allen’s Hummingbirds return to Northern California to sip nectar, build nests and raise babies. Visiting a thousand flowers a day and drinking more than twice their body weight they also carry out a lot of pollination…note the patch of yellow on the upper bill.

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