Name: VERIFY: What's up with the hummingbird population?
Uploaded: 7/26/2019 2:09:39 PM
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Description: Summertime means the birds are singing from morning until night, but one bird hasn’t been seen much this year. Several viewers reached out to 13WMAZ asking us to VERIFY if the hummingbird population has dropped.

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