APODIFORMES

Trinidad & Tobago 1960El Salvador 1998Nicaragua 1981
Copper-rumped Hummingbird
Amazilia tobaci
(Trochilidae)
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Amazilia rutila
(Trochilidae)
Violet Sabrewing
Campylopterus hemileucurus
(Trochilidae)
El Salvador 1998El Salvador 1998El Salvador 1998
Blue-Throated Goldentail
Hylocharis eliciae
(Trochilidae)
Green Violet-ear
Colibri thalassinus
(Trochilidae)
Amethyst-throated Hummingbird
Lampornis amethystinus
(Trochilidae)
Gabon 1961British Dominica 1969Cuba 2003Chili 1987
Hummingbird
Melittephagus mulleri
(Trochilidae)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
(Trochilidae)
Bee Hummingbird
Mellisuga helenae
(Trochilidae)
Juan Fernandez Firecrown
Sephanoides fernandensis
(Trochilidae)


Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
Eupetomena macroura
(Trochilidae)
(APODIFORMES)
Bogota Sunangel
Heliangelus zusii
(Trochilidae)
(APODIFORMES)


There was the person who thought seriously when the hummingbird which belonged to Apodiformes was one form that a butterfly metamorphosed into to a European natural historian of the time in the 17th century. This bird wears special airmanship like that. It question on a bill in a long pipe-shaped flower thin, and it is possible for a stop flight in aerial one point. Furthermore, it can just fly backward. This is the trick that is not possible to other birds, and there is the secret to the shoulder joint which is the fulcrum of the wing. It can let a wing flap to describe a figure of eight in a horizontal direction. The number of the flaps is the same level as 80 times per second and an insect with a small kind, besides. It will be no wonder even if it take for a butterfly and a bee.

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