We're Raffling Off Hummingbird Prizes!

Nov 17, 2016

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We're Raffling Off Hummingbird Prizes!                
 
Thank you to all of our current backers! With your support, we are closing in on our goal!

We will be raffling off a few really cool hummingbird related prizes!   
- A Hummingbird Society 2017 calendar  
- A Hummingbird decoy hand painted by one of our talented undergraduates  
- A Hummingbird feeder  
- “Birds of Southern California” field book  
 We will randomly draw the winner from all of our backers on the last day of the campaign and notify you via a message on Experiment.   
Thank you for your continued support!!   
(Disclaimer: this is in no way an endorsement for any of the organizations that sell or produce the above items!)

Preeti, H. Ross Hawkins, PhD, and 4 others like this.

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About This Project

A Mother’s Work is Never Done: Using Thermal Imaging to Detect Torpor in Nesting Hummingbirds

Center for Urban Resilience (CURes), Loyola Marymount University

Hummingbirds use energy at extremely high rates due to their small size and high metabolism. They must conserve energy by going into nightly torpor, drastically dropping their metabolic rate and body temperature. We aim to quantify the energetics associated with nesting female hummingbirds using thermal imaging. We predict that in order to incubate their eggs well, they will rarely use torpor. This has important implications for understanding how animals cope with extreme energetic requirements.