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Contentment Calls

Some longer journeys are not migratory at all but undertaken to satisfy various impulses.

—G. Gordon’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Pacific Northwest

A mama crow lays between three and seven eggs in a summer.

Baby crows live with their parents for years before starting their own families.

Brother and sister crows will stick around to help feed the new baby crows.

A baby hummingbird is the size of a bumblebee.

A baby hummingbird must be fed every few minutes. It’s a marathon.

An adult hummingbird weighs about four grams. That’s less than a teaspoon of sugar!

Hummingbirds fly south for the winter, some as far as Mexico. That is called migrating.

The American crow does not migrate.