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The Wild with Chris Morgan

Tiny but tough: Hummingbirds of the Arizona desert

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

Science, Nature

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This episode looks at the shrinking of the nectar landscape and native plants and how that could impact the migration patterns of hummingbirds in the desert of Arizona.

Transcript

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0:34.3

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0:57.8

Well, yeah, we get to the nest over here this way. Okay, cool. I'm with Dr. Harold Greenie

1:04.3

on the outskirts of Tucson in southern Arizona. We're walking up in Arroyo, a dry riverbed,

1:10.4

just off a residential road.

1:11.6

There's actually a pair of Virio's building a nest right here.

1:15.6

Is that what the sound?

1:16.6

Yeah, that's what the who's singing in the background there.

1:19.6

I like the song of the Virio's, but right now I am fixated on finding a hummingbird nest.

1:26.6

Harold is a bird nest expert and he's agreed to show me

1:32.6

a couple of sites a few minutes from where he lives. We stepped through the crispy leaves between

1:37.4

mesquite trees and other scrubby plants. It's a thorny, untidy looking landscape, but it's the

1:43.9

type of habitat hummingbirds love for nest building.

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