Jon Dunn > Quotes

“Kate McLaughlin is a hummingbird researcher and champion, who, on June 28, 2010, caught a Rufous Hummingbird in Alaska that, some five months earlier, had been caught and ringed by another hummingbird researcher in Tallahassee, Florida, some 3,500 miles away and, to this day, represents the longest known migration ever recorded by a hummingbird.”
― Jon Dunn, The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

“despite representing only 0.03 percent of the world’s landmass, an enormous 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity is found in Costa Rica.”
― Jon Dunn, The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds

“A quarter of a hummingbird’s bodyweight was accounted for by the pectoral muscles that drove its wings. Those wings could beat between fifty and two hundred times per second, reduced to a mere blur to the human eye. Sustaining such flight required a hummingbird to consume copious energy-rich nectar, powering a heart that beats around twelve hundred times per minute.”
― Jon Dunn, The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds