[NatureNS] hummers

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This is a truly enlightening article -- if we are making the little birds
work harder by providing a weaker solution and if 1:1 or 1:2 is just as
good, then why not?



On 8/4/08, Wild Flora <herself@wildflora.com> wrote:
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>   I have been using Google and Google Scholar to try to locate a source
> for the often-repeated statement that sugar concentrations higher than 1:4
> can cause liver damage in hummingbirds. No luck, however. Does anyone know
> where this idea originated?
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> Meanwhile, here is an interesting article from the May 1993 issue of *
> WildBird* magazine, available online, that raises questions about the
> traditional 1:4 concentration: "Hummingbird Feeding", by Reed Hainsworth,
> Phd, and Larry Wolf, Phd. http://www.hummingbirds.net/hainsworth.html
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<div>This is a truly enlightening article -- if we are making the little birds work harder by providing a weaker solution and if 1:1 or 1:2 is just as good, then why not?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/4/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wild Flora</b> &lt;herself@wildflora.com&gt; wrote:</span>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">I have been using Google and Google Scholar to try to locate a source for the often-repeated statement that sugar concentrations higher than 1:4 can cause liver damage in hummingbirds. No luck, however. Does anyone know where this idea originated?</span></p>

<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Meanwhile, here is an interesting article from the May 1993 issue of <i>WildBird</i> magazine, available online, that raises questions about the traditional 1:4 concentration: "</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Hummingbird Feeding", by Reed Hainsworth, Phd, and Larry Wolf, Phd. http://www.hummingbirds.net/hainsworth.html</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"></span></p>

<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">&nbsp;</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>

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