[at-l] OT - Hummingbird in the house - Strange (but neat) experience

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 08:17 AM 6/15/2004 -0400, Steve Landis wrote:
>On 6/14/2004 9:56 PM, Jim Bullard wrote:
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>>>(Or, if you get enuff of 'em, the make a tasty bisque...it just takes a 
>>>lot to be enuff.)
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>>It would take a hell of a lot of them.
>
>Four and twenty, then double the recipe since they're so small. Just my 
>six pence.
>
>Steve

You'd have to (significantly) more than double it. According to a quick web 
search a red winged blackbird weighs 45-66 grams 
<http://collections.ic.gc.ca/eyeview/English/Shield/black2.htm>. Call it 50 
grams and that equals ruffly (as Felix would say) 1.75 oz. I tried 
searching on just 'blackbird' but there were too many matches to the 
fighter plane to wade through.

A hummingbird however (are you ready for this?) weighs in at 1/100th of an 
oz. <http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/birds/RubyThroatedHummingbird.htm>. 
Incredible. At that weight they almost don't exist.