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noun - tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills
Any of numerous New World birds of the family Trochilidae, usually very small in size and having brilliant, iridescent plumage, a long slender bill, and wings capable of beating very rapidly, thereby enabling the bird to hover.
HUMMINGBIRD - Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.513 c...
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| Species of this hovering bird range in size from 2" to 8" |
| A type of this lays the smallest egg for an avian:BRING HIM MUD |
| Only 2 inches long, the smallest bird is a species of this |
| This ruby-throated bird has one of the highest metabolisms of warm-blooded vertebrates |
| Native to Cuba & barely over 2 inches in length, the "bee" variety of this is the world's smallest bird |
| The ruby-throated species of this bird usually lays 2 tiny eggs about the size of navy beans |
| There are striped-tailed as well as ruby-throated varieties of this species seen here |
| The California fuchsia, a trumpet-shaped flower found in the desert, is often pollinated by this tiny bird |
| The smaller species of this small bird beat their wings 60 to 70 times a second |
| The smallest bird native to the U.S. is the calliope species of this bird, which reaches a length of about 3 inches |
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| Any of numerous New World birds of the family Trochilidae, usually very small in size and having brilliant iridescent plumage, a long slender bill, and wings capable of beating very rapidly, thereby enabling the bird to hover. |
| a small nectar-feeding tropical American bird that is able to hover and fly backwards, and typically has colourful iridescent plumage. |
| tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills wings are specialized for vibrating flight |
| A small nectar-feeding tropical American bird that is able to hover and fly backwards, and typically has colourful iridescent plumage. |
| a very small, brightly coloured bird with a long, thin beak, whose wings move very fast and make a humming noise |
| a very small, brightly colored bird with a long beak that it uses to drink nectar ( sweet liquid) from flowers |
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Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.513 cm (35 in) in length. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5 cm (2.0 in) bee hummingbird weighing less than 2.0 g (0.07 oz). * They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, which vary from around 12 beats per second in the largest species, to in excess of 80 in some of the smallest. Of those species that have been measured in wind tunnels, their top speed exceeds 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph) and some species can dive at speeds in excess of 22 m/s (79 km/h; 49 mph).Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal. To conserve energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they can go into torpor, a state similar to hibernation, slowing metabolic r |