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The sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a neotropical species of hummingbird from the Andean regions of South America. Among the largest species of hummingbird, it is characterized by its unusually long beak, being the only bird to have a beak longer than the rest of its body, excluding the tail. It uses this to drink nectar from flowers with long corollas and has coevolved with the plant Passiflora mixta. While most hummingbirds preen using their beaks, the sword-billed hummingbird uses its feet to scratch and preen due to its beak being so long.
The title of this stained glass window translates as "Pattern for Married Couples". Located in Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Nesselwängle, Austria), it depicts two saints who were a married couple, Maria Torribia and Isidore the Farmer. Today is their feast day.
I took contact with Wikipedia in January of 2007. The idea of a free encyclopedia with the aim of having an important part of the common knowledge of humanity felt irresistible so since then I try to help improving this huge work.
I hereby give this Coming of the Cavalry Award to Garrondo, for helping out in a long hard slog when it was most needed. Cheers, Casliber (talk·contribs) 04:20, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Together for the golden wikistars! International solidarity badge. Awarded to Garrondo by CopperKettle. Thank you for your work in upgrading the Alzheimer's disease article and helping me translate it! Its just received the GA status at RuWiki! CopperKettle 18:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Garrondo, for your valiant contributions to numerous medical articles, and many hours helping get Huntington's Disease to GA status have the Medicine barnstar. L∴V 00:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
In September of 2009 the featured articles I had heavily contributed to (Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, treatment of multiple sclerosis and Huntington's disease) summed to the Spanish and Russian versions of the Alzheimer's disease article received a total of more than half a million visits (566.412)