Introduced by presenter Julia Bradbury, this film sheds light on how climate change is affecting Wicken Fen and the biodiversity it supports. The raised boardwalk allows easy access to a landscape of flowering meadows, sedge and reed beds, home to water voles and rare birds, including hen harrier and bittern. The Fen, which has been under the care of the National Trust since 1899, supports more than 9,000 species, including a wide variety of plants, birds and dragonflies. National Trust (March 27, 2023) – In this episode of The Wild Life, a new series of nature films from the National Trust, Paralympic medallist and TV presenter, Ade Adepitan explores Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve – one of Europe’s most important wetlands. Birds Central America Costa Rica Forests Hummingbirds March 2023 Nature Nature on PBS Videos Talamancas Mountains Videos Volcano Hummingbird Western Panama Wildlife Incubation takes 15–19 days, and fledging another 20–26. She lays two white eggs in her tiny plant-down cup nest 1–5 m high in a scrub or on a root below a south or east facing bank. The female volcano hummingbird is entirely responsible for nest building and incubation. Young birds resemble the female but have buff fringes to the upperpart plumage. The female is similar, but her throat is white with dusky spots. The throat is grey-purple in the Talamanca range, red in the Poas-Barva mountains and pink-purple in the Irazú-Turrialba area, the rest of the underparts being white. The adult male volcano hummingbird has bronze-green upperparts and rufous-edged black outer tail feathers. The male weighs 2.5 g and the female 2.8 g. This tiny endemic bird inhabits open brushy areas, paramo, and edges of elfin forest at altitudes from 1850 m to the highest peaks. The volcano hummingbird ( Selasphorus flammula ) is a very small hummingbird, native to the Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Nature on PBS (March 27, 2023) – No bigger than a human thumb, the volcano hummingbird exists only in the Talamancas.
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