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The :–2<: (pronounced ‘eye to eye’) Hummingbird Feeder ($80), invented in 2008 by Californian Doyle Doss, is a full-face polycarbonate mask adapted to include a feeder tube for tiny Trochilidae.

Very handy in rural Humboldt county. Less useful in, say, Ringsend.

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Like that.

A female Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis) sleeps in Peru. Apparently, the background hum is the sound of a generator attached to a machine measuring how much oxygen the bird is consuming.

Future studies will reveal how hummingbirds also fart and scratch themselves in the night.

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Singer Josh Williams continues to belt out a foot-tappin’ rendition of ‘Mordecai’ at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in North Carolina last summer, even after a tiny fan joins him at the mike (at around the 1.30 mark).

Aww.

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