Shazam has free and premium features, but even the free version comes well recommended for identifying little known songs by tags.
Unlike Midomi however, you have to play the track for Shazam to identify it with a tag – humming won’t cut it. With Shazam you can simply hold your phone up to the song to identify the track, buy it, check out the videos, and share it with friends.
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Shazam is supported on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, and Windows Phone 7. Shazam is a song identifier app (and also works like a tagging app) you can carry along in your smartphone. All user uploaded songs also help to enhance the search engine’s database. Midomi also gives you a ‘studio’ to sing your favorite songs and upload it to the site. Of course, you can do a normal text search for a particular song too if you know any detail about it. Midomi also has an advanced search engine which lets you sing in any language and in the style of any musical genre. Search hits throw up relevant matches along with song videos and links to online retail shops to purchase the song if you want. Midomi’s ultimate goal is to build the most comprehensive database of searchable music, part of it with user contributions. The voice search takes up just a corner because Midomi also has a large community of music lovers behind it. Midomi is a neat well-designed website and a unique search engine that’s powered by your voice. Photo credit: Bill Stripling Broad-billed Hummingbird.Play on with these three applications and save your grey cells some trouble. Photo credit: Bill Stripling Ruby-throated Hummingbird. More hummingbird pics thanks to Bill Stripling Ruby-throated Humingbird. Hummingbird body temperature ranges from 105°- 108☏Ī hummingbird lives a relatively short life of great intensity (9 years,) while large creatures that move slowly (elephants, whales) live longer (60 years for wild elephant.)Įighty percent (80%) of all birds, including hummingbirds, will not live to see their first birthday. A hummingbird has the highest measured rate of aerobic metabolism of any living thing.īirds of all sizes have a more efficient respiratory system than humans, because oxygen runs through their entire system of auxiliary air sacs that maintains a constant flow to the lungs. Hovering is the most metabolically expensive form of flight because of the energy consumed. Igor Sikorsky considered the exceptional hovering ability of hummingbirds when developing his pioneering designs for helicopters.
Hummingbirds are the only species of birds that can truly fly backwards. Ruby-throat beats its wings 40-80 times a second, and maintains an average flight speed of 30 mph. Ruby-throats fly non-stop across the Gulf of Mexico – 500+ miles. Only the Ruby-throated Hummingbird breeds east of the Mississippi River. There are about 340 species of hummingbirds in the world, all in the western hemisphere. Hummingbirds are the smallest of all birds, measuring between 2-8 inches in length.Ī newborn hummingbird is about the size of a honeybee, an egg, the size of a small bean.
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Photo credit: Bill Striplingįind out more and download the app at See also how to create a healthy backyard and info on hummingbird feeders. Langham “This is a fun, family-friendly citizen science project that works in the classroom or in the kitchen.” Broad-billed Hummingbird. “Increasingly people are seeing the impact of Climate Change in their own backyards, from early blossoms to extreme weather,” said Dr.
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Participants can get involved year round by making recommended changes to their local hummingbird habitats, plus take steps to stem the impact of Climate Change. Data will be shared with the Pollinator Partnership who note that pollinators such as birds, bees and bats “are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food.” Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Langham says the new research will help Audubon focus its conservation efforts on where birds are most affected. Gary Langham, Chief Scientist for Audubon “but will their arrival time be in sync with the blossoms?” Dr. “Every year, many hummingbird species make a remarkable journey north during springtime,” said Dr. The project joins Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count and the Great Backyard Bird Count as part of a plan to grow Citizen Science programs year-round, and entice young people and non-birders to become stewards for nature. Hummingbirds at Home will welcome observations from March to June each spring. The National Audubon Society has launched a new Citizen Science project to document hummingbird sightings across the country, using a free mobile app that identifies bird species as well as the plants that feed them. As flowers bloom earlier because of warming temperatures, the impact on hummingbirds which rely on nectar could be severe.