Wow, this post has been a long time coming! I started this project as an undergraduate working with Dr. Don Powers, where I measured feeding rates of hummingbirds while eating dilute nectars. This started with four species, working at Southwestern Research Station in 2015. I continued working with some pretty charismatic species in Ecuador after that, such as this White-booted Racketttail ( Ocreatus underwoodii) . I continued the project for many years, as I applied to gradu

After navigation of IACUC, state permits, housing plans, experimental setup shake-out and so many other tasks this past year has held, we...