Lifelong birding enthusiast John Shewey is a veteran writer, editor, and professional outdoor photographer, with credits in Birdwatching, Portland Monthly, Northwest Travel & Life, and dozens of other magazines, and co-author of Birds of the Pacific Northwest, a Timber Press Field Guide, and The Hummingbird Handbook. John has photographed birds from the mountains of Alaska to the
jungles of Central America to the islands of the Caribbean, and his website chronicles many of these travels in rich
photographic detail.
Scientists tried for years to understand how a hummingbird tongue and beak works. Discover the fascinating ways these tiny fliers use their tongues and beaks.
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