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Winged Prism: Award-Winning Photos of Hummingbirds and Their Rainbow-Like Wings

December 8, 2022
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Acclaimed photographer Christian Spencer’s exclusive photos of hummingbirds with their wings illuminated like prisms are magical, otherworldly, and entirely natural. “My photos are a photoshop-free zone,” the 45-year-old photographer told The Epoch Times. Spencer, an Australian-born professional artist, filmmaker, and photographer, currently lives in Brazil. He uses a semi-professional camera and does not deploy any…

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Ultra-Rare Photoshoot Shows Dueling Hummingbird Grabbing Another Bird’s Beak in Fight for Feeder

September 1, 2021
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Hummingbirds usually call to mind tranquil water baths, graceful fluttering wings, and long beaks drinking from nectar-filled flowers. But there’s another side to this serene-seeming bird that defies expectation. SoCal-based photographer Terry Williams knows that hummingbirds can be “very territorial”—and he recently captured some extraordinary shots of the birds dueling. In recent years, Williams has…

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Meet the Crowned Woodnymph Hummingbird That Wears a Plumage of Blue-Green ‘Sequins’

August 29, 2021
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One little bird is standing out from the over-300 species of hummingbird that exist on planet Earth for a dazzling feature: its iridescent bright blue and green plumage that looks like a cloak made of sequins. This tiny jewel seems like it’s flown straight out of the pages of a fairytale. The male crowned woodnymph…

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Photographer Captures Once-in-a-Lifetime Moment Rare Hummingbird Hangs on Bird’s Beak

January 30, 2021
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Dramatic photos taken in Ecuador capture an extremely rare hummingbird the split moment it “hangs” onto the elongated beak of a rival bird in the wild. The sword-billed hummingbird was beaten to the bird feeder in the photographs, taken by Nicolas Reusens, who described the scene as a “once-in-a-lifetime” moment. The 45-year-old photographer caught the…

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