Hank's Hummingbird GIFs + Video

A Costa's hummingbird (Calypte costa) sips nectar with its needle like bill from the red, tube-shaped, Salvia flower (Salvia microphylla).   

Coevolution is a term that describes the reciprocal evolutionary influences that

interdependent species have; the long slender bill of the hummingbird and the tubular salvia flowers are a good example.


This animation was made with only two images and it does not show that wings actually circumscribe a "figure eight-like" path, oscillating, an average eighty times per second.


I made another "Flip-Book" anmimated GIF of a hummingbird using six sequential images taken on Kodak Gold 200 film. It is a rapid sequence that covers a time span just over one second. Click here: Back yard Anna's Hummingbird at feeder in San Gabriel, California to see it.