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References

• Adams, E. P. (1899). Persistent nesting of the Anna’s Humminbird. Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club. 28.
• Attenborough, D. 1995. The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behavior. London: BBC Books. 320 p.
• Attracting Hummingbirds (Lanny Chambers, hummingbirds.net)
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes. 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• Dickinson, Edward C., ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 3rd edition. 1039
• Doucet SM; Meadows MG. 2009. Iridescence: a functional perspective. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 6: S115-S132.
• Extension Service Garden Hints: Attract hummingbirds to your garden (Peg Herring, Oregon State University Extension Service)
• Fowler, ME; Miller, RE. 2003. Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co.
• Greenewalt CH; Brandt W; Friel DD. 1960. The iridescent colors of hummingbird feathers. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 104: 249-253.
• Hummingbirds in North America (Birds-N-Garden.com)
• P. G. Howes, The Giant Cactus Forest and Its World: A Brief Biology of the Giant Cactus Forest of Our American Southwest (Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, New York; Little, Brown, Boston; 1954), from pp. 222-239, from p. 227.
• Smith ML; Yanega GM; Ruina A. 2011. Elastic instability model of rapid beak closure in hummingbirds. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 282(1): 41-51.
• Smith RA. 2011. Hummingbirds catch flying bugs with the help of fast-closing beaks.
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