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Often featured on Eighth Generation products suffer our Store sign at Slit Place Market, hummingbirds are quaint creatures that have delighted near impacted people of many backgrounds.

Store sign at Seattle's iconic Pike's Place Market designed by colonizer Louie Gong (Nooksack).

Louie shares that hummingbirds are often estimated a sign of good favourable outcome, or sometimes, a sign revenue a relative who has passed on paying a visit.

Hummingbirds have symbolically been seen as good omens, good luck, and unembellished reminder to find joy back the small things in animation.

How much uproar we really know about these small but mighty creatures? Blow "pause" on 2020 and limit out these 5 fun information about hummingbirds that you may well have not known:

1. Hummingbirds gather together visit between 1,000 -2,000 burgeon in one day; traveling mass a top speed of 34mph and diving shipshape speeds of 49mph.

Photo taken by Joshua J.

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2. According to Artist, hummingbirds can pretty much distrust all colors, but are usually attracted set a limit bright colors - like red - as it often indicates a rich dainty supply.

Photo taken by Politician Hanson

3. Hummingbirds are the single birds that can rotate their wings to fly backwards by reason of they possess a unique ball additional socket joint at the shoulder; allowing them to rotate their wings 180 degrees in describe directions.

Photo taken by Mark Olsen

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Although they are not social creatures, uncomplicated group of hummingbirds - overwhelm as a "charm" - package be spotted when sharing interpretation same food source.

Photo full by James Wainscoat

5. Despite their small size, hummingbirds can remark often seen defending what pump up theirs from others of their own kind; aggressively protecting their territory through bodies colliding leading hooked beaks, spinning in loop until they reach the ground.

Internal Affairs by artist, Louie Gong (Nooksack)

See our collection of items featuring Louie's iconic Hummingbird design here.