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Xantus's hummingbird is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long. Males weigh an average of 3.5 g (0.12 oz) and females 3.4 g (0.12 oz). Their bills are straight and about 1.7 cm (0.67 in) long; males' are red with a black tip. Females' maxilla is black with a pinkish base and their mandible pinkish red with a black tip.
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The black-chinned hummingbird is 8.25 cm (3.25 in) long. Adults are metallic green above and white below with green flanks. Their bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has a black face and chin, a glossy purple gorget, and a dark forked tail. The female has a dark rounded tail with white tips and no throat patch.
The streamertails are hummingbirds in the genus Trochilus, that are endemic to Jamaica.It is the type genus of the family Trochilidae.Today most authorities consider the two taxa in this genus as separate species, but some (e.g. AOU) continue to treat them as conspecific, in which case scitulus is a subspecies of T. polytmus.
White-tailed hummingbird: Eupherusa poliocerca Elliot, DG, 1871: 308 Oaxaca hummingbird: Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley, JS & Orr, 1964: 309 Stripe-tailed hummingbird: Eupherusa eximia (Delattre, 1843) 310 Black-bellied hummingbird: Eupherusa nigriventris Lawrence, 1868: 311 Scaly-breasted hummingbird: Phaeochroa cuvierii (Delattre & Bourcier ...
Hummingbird talismans were prized as drawing sexual potency, energy, vigor, and skill at arms and warfare to the wearer. [225] The Aztec god of war Huitzilopochtli is often depicted in art as a hummingbird. [226] Aztecs believed that fallen warriors would be reincarnated as hummingbirds. [226] [227] The Nahuatl word huitzil translates to ...
The black-bellied hummingbird is 7 to 8 cm (2.8 to 3.1 in) long and weighs about 3.0 to 3.5 g (0.11 to 0.12 oz). Males have a black breast and belly that provide the species' English name; their forehead and face are also black. The sides of the breast are green and the undertail coverts white. They have mostly bronze green upperparts with ...
Hummingbirds are small birds capable of hovering in mid-air due to the rapid flapping of their wings. They are the only birds that can fly backward. Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (A) Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris (B) Black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri (A) Anna's hummingbird, Calypte anna (A)