Photo pendant of the ruby throated humming bird features a digitized photo of a tiny but favorite garden visitor sipping nectar from purple/pink flowers.

This pendant is available in gold or silver. The pearlized cameostone with the gold frame has a mother-of-pearl opal glaze as a background, and the silver frame has an ivory-opal glaze. These treatments glow through the hummingbird image, much the same as seen on a living humming bird in the sunlight. A holographic type affect turns the colors metallic when tipped different directions in refracted light.

Pendant setting is framed with an antiqued, gold or silver plated, scrolled design and holds a 30mm X 40mm cabochon. Measures 1 1/2" wide by 2 1/4" high. Included are bail and plated cable necklace chain with lobster claw fastener. Choose length of either 18" or 24".

• The hummingbird's tiny brain, 4.2% of its body weight, is proportionately the largest in the bird kingdom.

• Hummingbirds can live a decade or more in the wild.

• Hummingbirds have weak feet and are more at ease using their wings even to shift in the nest or on a perch. Hummingbirds are 30% flight muscles.They have the fastest wing beats of any bird with an average flight speed of 25-30 mph and can dive up to 60 mph.

• A hummingbird can rotate each of its wings in a circle, allowing them to be the only bird which can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, sideways or sit in sheer space. To hover, hummingbirds move their wings forward and backward in a repeated figure eight, much like the arms of a swimmer treading water. Hummingbirds can move instantaneously in any direction, start from its perch at full speed, and doesn't necessarily slow up to land. Hummingbirds can even fly short distances upside down, a trick rollover they employ when being attacked by another bird.

• Many ruby-throats make a 2,000 mile journey between Canada and Panama. The trip includes a non-stop, 500 mile flight over the Gulf of Mexico.