{"id":228282,"date":"2026-01-03T06:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bird-feeders-have-caused-a-dramatic-evolution-of-california-hummingbirds"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:12:30","slug":"bird-feeders-have-caused-a-dramatic-evolution-of-california-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bird-feeders-have-caused-a-dramatic-evolution-of-california-hummingbirds","title":{"rendered":"Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bird-feeders-have-caused-a-dramatic-evolution-of-california-hummingbirds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evolution doesn\u2019t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case with the Anna\u2019s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in just a few generations, all thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded to follow the feeders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution doesn\u2019t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes. Such is the case with the Anna\u2019s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in just a few generations, all thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders. Beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}