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in 1936. She hosted visiting scientists interested in the birds who frequented her garden. In 1950, after she died, the
Webster feeder became the first commercially-produced
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Hummingbirds of North
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A reproduction of the original
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Hummingbird
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After reading a 1928 article about feeding hummingbirds in
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