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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.
Many other species of hummingbirds also produce sounds with their wings or tails while flying, hovering, or diving, including the wings of the calliope hummingbird, [166] broad-tailed hummingbird, rufous hummingbird, Allen's hummingbird, and the streamertail species, as well as the tail of the Costa's hummingbird and the black-chinned ...
Hummingbirds are birds of the family Trochilidae. They are split into the subfamiles Phaethornithinae (hermits) and Trochilinae (typical hummingbirds). Subcategories.
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
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Scissor-tailed hummingbird; Short-tailed emerald; Short-tailed woodstar; Sombre hummingbird; Sooty barbthroat; Sooty-capped hermit; Southern giant hummingbird; Spangled coquette; Sparkling violetear; Speckled hummingbird; Streak-throated hermit; Stripe-breasted starthroat; Stripe-throated hermit; Swallow-tailed hummingbird; Sword-billed hummingbird
Rufous-breasted hermit, Tobago Hummingbirds of Trinidad and Tobago Black-throated mango, Tobago Ruby-topaz hummingbird, Tobago Copper-rumped hummingbird, Trinidad. Order: Apodiformes Family: Trochilidae. 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 ...
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.