Trinidad & Tobago 1960 | El Salvador 1998 | Nicaragua 1981 |
Copper-rumped Hummingbird Amazilia tobaci (Trochilidae) |
Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila (Trochilidae) |
Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus (Trochilidae) |
El Salvador 1998 | El Salvador 1998 | El Salvador 1998 |
Blue-Throated Goldentail Hylocharis eliciae (Trochilidae) |
Green Violet-ear Colibri thalassinus (Trochilidae) |
Amethyst-throated Hummingbird Lampornis amethystinus (Trochilidae) |
Gabon 1961 | British Dominica 1969 | Cuba 2003 | Chili 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.