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Giant hummingbird: Patagona gigas (Vieillot, 1824) 196 Violet-chested hummingbird: Sternoclyta cyanopectus (Gould, 1846) 197 Scissor-tailed hummingbird: Hylonympha macrocerca Gould, 1873: 198 Rivoli's hummingbird: Eugenes fulgens (Swainson, 1827) 199 Talamanca hummingbird: Eugenes spectabilis (Lawrence, 1867) 200 Fiery-throated hummingbird
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 backwards. Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in North America as permanent residents, summer or winter residents or visitors, or migrants.
Hummingbirds are birds of the family Trochilidae. They are split into the subfamiles Phaethornithinae (hermits) and Trochilinae (typical hummingbirds). Subcategories.
Hummingbirds can fly backwards. Hummingbirds are the only species of bird that is able to fly backwards. They do so regularly, and research has found that hummingbirds' "backward flight is ...
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 ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
The male Anna's hummingbird is the only North American hummingbird species with a red crown. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Females and juvenile males have a dull green crown, a grey throat with or without some red iridescence , a grey chest and belly, and a dark, rounded tail with white tips on the outer feathers.
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.