Here is a video of the Lebanon, CT Ruby throated Hummingbird awakening from a state of rest called torpor. Hummingbirds use torpor which is a state of decreased physiological activity that reduces heart rate, lowers metabolism, respiration, and body temperature all of which are survival mechanisms during stress or colder weather. We always ask finders of injured hummingbirds to place them in a well ventilated, DARK box lined with paper or other soft material to allow these birds to go into torpo

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