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THE LONG REACH OF TINY BIRDS - Hummingbirds are inspiring new cross- border conservation efforts between Mexico and the United States.(aiding hummingbird migration)

SUNLIGHT escapes the thicket, pausing on a furious flash of red and green that careens through the damp morning air. "Oh, there's that rufous again," Marion Paton whispers to visitors, with a conspiratorial grin.

The rufous hummingbird ignores the nosy humans charting its dips and dives from a hushed corner of Paton's overgrown backyard. Instead, the bird's fierce black eyes focus on a feeder, one in a row of nine, all glistening like the dessert tray in a busy roadside diner.

"He's a hungry one, for sure," says Paton, a retired school-cafeteria manager who runs her Hummingbird Haven on two-and-a-half acres ringed by thick forest. A true hummer's Xanadu, the feeding ...

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