{"id":748,"date":"2013-01-13T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-01-13T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:38:37","slug":"birds-and-freezing-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/birds-and-freezing-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Freezing Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how birds (especially the tiny ones) survive freezing temperatures? It wasn&#8217;t until our most recent long cold spell that I worried more than usual and finally did a little research. I did a Google search and found an answer quickly! All animals and birds have an amazing ability to put themselves in a type of deep sleep which reduces their metabolic rate by as much as 95%. Unlike true hibernation, however, they can do this as needed. Pretty cool, huh?! The scientific name for this phenomena is <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/grrlscientist\/2006\/04\/09\/hummingbirds-and-torpor\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Torpor or Noctivation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 (click words for more information) Nature is truly amazing.<\/p>\n<p>If you feed Hummingbirds (as I do), the most important thing to worry about is keeping their nectar from freezing. If you&#8217;re going to bring the feeder in, wait until you know for sure the birds are asleep because they will continue to feed until dark in an effort to stay warm. I left my feeders out but put little cozies on them (plan to make more efficient ones!) and this morning, I gathered them up, warmed them under hot water and then refilled with warm liquid. The Hummingbirds seemed to appreciate that \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/birds-and-freezing-temperatures\/mjensen-bird-feeder-5438\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-749\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-749\" alt=\"mjensen-bird-feeder-5438\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mjensen-bird-feeder-5438-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/birds-and-freezing-temperatures\/mjensen-bird-annas-cold-5364\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-750\" alt=\"mjensen-bird-annas-cold-5364\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mjensen-bird-annas-cold-5364-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how birds (especially the tiny ones) survive freezing temperatures? It wasn&#8217;t until our most recent long cold spell that I worried more than usual and finally did a little research. I did a Google search and found an answer quickly! All animals and birds have an amazing ability to put themselves &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/birds-and-freezing-temperatures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birds and Freezing Temperatures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[61,59,60,58,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}