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Hummingbird (Family: Trochilidae) - Wiki 
 Hummingbird
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 [Photo] The 99th plate illustration from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904), showing a variety of hummingbirds. Species: Trochilus colubris (or Archilochus colubris) -- Ruby-throated hummingbird, Heliactin cornuta -- Horned Sungem, Topaza pella -- Crimson Topaz, Lophornis ornata (now: Lophornis ornatus) -- Tufted Coquette, Sparganura sappho (or Sappho sparganura) -- Red-tailed Comet, Docimastes ensifer (now: Ensifera ensifera) -- Sword-billed Hummingbird, Eutoxeres condamini -- Buff-tailed Sicklebill, Lophornis gouldii -- Dot-eared Coquette, Ornismya petasophora, Augastes lumachellus -- Hooded Visorbearer, Hylocharis stokesii, Steganura underwoodi (now: Ocreatus underwoodii) -- Booted Racket-tail 
 
 Hummingbirds are small birds in the family Trochilidae, native only to the Americas. They are known for their ability to hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings, 15???80 times per second (depending on the species). Capable of sustained hovering, the hummingbird has the ability to fly deliberately backwards (this is the only group of birds able to do so) or vertically, and to maintain position while drinking nectar or eating tiny arthropods from flower blossoms. They are named for the characteristic hum made by their wings.
 
 Appearance
 The hummingbird is a small bird with a long, thin beak. This elongated beak is one of the defining characteristics of the hummingbird, which, with an extendable, bifurcated tongue, has evolved in order to allow the bird to feed upon nectar deep within flowers. A hummingbird's lower beak also has the unique ability to flex downward to create a wider opening, facilitating the capture of insects in the mouth rather than at the tip of the beak.
 
 The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is the smallest bird in the world, weighing 1.8 grams (0.06 ounces) and measuring about 5 cm (2 inches). A more typical hummingbird, such as the Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), weighs approximately 3 g (0.106 ounces) and has a length of 10???12 cm (3.5???4 inches). The largest hummingbird is the Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas), with some individuals weighing as much as 24 grams (0.85 ounces) and measuring 21.5 cm (8.5 inches).
 
 Hummingbirds bear the most glittering plumage in the bird world. They display sexual dimorphism, as male hummingbirds are usually more brightly colored, while females of most species display more cryptic coloration. Most males have iridescent plumage, in metallic red, orange, green and/or blue. Some have only an iridescent throat patch or cap, while others, such as the Coppery-headed Emerald, are entirely iridescent.
 
 Feeding
 Hummingbirds are attracted to many flowering plants???shrimp plants, bee balm, Heliconia, Buddleja, Hibiscus, bromeliads, cannas, verbenas, honeysuckles, salvias, pentas, fuchsias, many penstemons, and others. It is often stated that they are especially attracted to red and yellow flowers. Once attracted to a garden, hummingbirds may find flowers of other colors more attractive. The location and growing season should determine choices of the plants selected for a garden to attract hummingbirds. They feed on the nectar of these plants and are important pollinators, especially of deep-throated flowers. Most species of hummingbird also take insects, especially when feeding young.
 
 Aerodynamics of flight
 Hummingbird flight has been studied intensively from an aerodynamic perspective: Hovering hummingbirds may be filmed using high-speed video cameras.
 
 Writing in Nature, the biomechanist Douglas Warrick and coworkers studied the Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, in a wind tunnel using particle image velocimetry techniques and investigated the lift generated on the bird's upstroke and downstroke.
 
 They concluded that their subjects produced 75% of their weight support during the down-stroke and 25% during the up-stroke: many earlier studies had assumed (implicitly or explicitly) that lift was generated equally during the two phases of the wingbeat cycle, as is the case of insects of a similar size. This finding shows that hummingbirds' hovering is similar to, but distinct from, that of hovering insects such as the hawk moths. 
 
 The Giant Hummingbird's wings beat 8???10 beats per second, the wings of medium-sized hummingbirds beat about 20???25 beats per second and the smallest beat 70 beats per second.
 
 Metabolism
 With the exception of insects, hummingbirds while in flight have the highest metabolism of all animals, a necessity in order to support the rapid beating of their wings. Their heart rate can reach as high as 1,260 beats per minute, a rate once measured in a Blue-throated Hummingbird. They also typically consume more than their own weight in food each day, and to do so they must visit hundreds of flowers daily. At any given moment, they are only hours away from starving.
 
 However, they are capable of slowing down their metabolism at night, or any other time food is not readily available. They enter a hibernation-like state known as torpor. During torpor, the heart rate and rate of breathing are both slowed dramatically (the heart rate to roughly 50???180 beats per minute), reducing their need for food. Most organisms with very rapid metabolism have short lifespans, however hummingbirds have been known to survive in captivity for as long as 17 years.
 
 Studies of hummingbirds' metabolism are highly relevant to the question of whether a migrating Ruby-throated Hummingbird can cross 800 km (500 miles) of the Gulf of Mexico on a nonstop flight, as field observations suggest it does. This hummingbird, like other birds preparing to migrate, stores up fat to serve as fuel, thereby augmenting its weight by as much as 40???50 percent and hence increasing the bird's potential flying time.
 
 Range
 Hummingbirds are found only in the Americas, from southern Alaska and Canada to Tierra del Fuego, including the Caribbean. The majority of species occur in tropical Central and South America, but several species also breed in temperate areas. Excluding vagrants, sometimes from Cuba or the Bahamas, only the migratory Ruby-throated Hummingbird breeds in eastern North America. The Black-chinned Hummingbird, its close relative and another migrant, is the most widespread and common species in the western United States and Canada.
 
 Most hummingbirds of the U.S. and Canada migrate to warmer climates in the northern winter, but some remain in the warmest coastal regions. Some southern South American forms also move to the tropics in the southern winter.
 
 The Rufous Hummingbird shows an increasing trend to migrate east to winter in the eastern United States, rather than south to Central America, as a result of increasing survival prospects provided by artificial feeders in gardens. In the past, individuals that migrated east would usually die, but now many survive, and their changed migration direction is inherited by their offspring. Provided sufficient food and shelter is available, they are surprisingly hardy, able to tolerate temperatures down to at least -4 °C (25 °F).
 
 Reproduction
 Hummingbird flight has been studied intensively from an aerodynamic perspective: Hovering hummingbirds may be filmed using high-speed video cameras.
 
 Writing in Nature, the biomechanist Douglas Warrick and coworkers studied the Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, in a wind tunnel using particle image velocimetry techniques and investigated the lift generated on the bird's upstroke and downstroke.
 
 They concluded that their subjects produced 75% of their weight support during the down-stroke and 25% during the up-stroke: many earlier studies had assumed (implicitly or explicitly) that lift was generated equally during the two phases of the wingbeat cycle, as is the case of insects of a similar size. This finding shows that hummingbirds' hovering is similar to, but distinct from, that of hovering insects such as the hawk moths. 
 
 The Giant Hummingbird's wings beat 8???10 beats per second, the wings of medium-sized hummingbirds beat about 20???25 beats per second and the smallest beat 70 beats per second.
 
 Metabolism
 With the exception of insects, hummingbirds while in flight have the highest metabolism of all animals, a necessity in order to support the rapid beating of their wings. Their heart rate can reach as high as 1,260 beats per minute, a rate once measured in a Blue-throated Hummingbird. They also typically consume more than their own weight in food each day, and to do so they must visit hundreds of flowers daily. At any given moment, they are only hours away from starving.
 
 However, they are capable of slowing down their metabolism at night, or any other time food is not readily available. They enter a hibernation-like state known as torpor. During torpor, the heart rate and rate of breathing are both slowed dramatically (the heart rate to roughly 50???180 beats per minute), reducing their need for food. Most organisms with very rapid metabolism have short lifespans, however hummingbirds have been known to survive in captivity for as long as 17 years.
 
 Studies of hummingbirds' metabolism are highly relevant to the question of whether a migrating Ruby-throated Hummingbird can cross 800 km (500 miles) of the Gulf of Mexico on a nonstop flight, as field observations suggest it does. This hummingbird, like other birds preparing to migrate, stores up fat to serve as fuel, thereby augmenting its weight by as much as 40???50 percent and hence increasing the bird's potential flying time.
 
 Range
 Hummingbirds are found only in the Americas, from southern Alaska and Canada to Tierra del Fuego, including the Caribbean. The majority of species occur in tropical Central and South America, but several species also breed in temperate areas. Excluding vagrants, sometimes from Cuba or the Bahamas, only the migratory Ruby-throated Hummingbird breeds in eastern North America. The Black-chinned Hummingbird, its close relative and another migrant, is the most widespread and common species in the western United States and Canada.
 
 Most hummingbirds of the U.S. and Canada migrate to warmer climates in the northern winter, but some remain in the warmest coastal regions. Some southern South American forms also move to the tropics in the southern winter.
 
 The Rufous Hummingbird shows an increasing trend to migrate east to winter in the eastern United States, rather than south to Central America, as a result of increasing survival prospects provided by artificial feeders in gardens. In the past, individuals that migrated east would usually die, but now many survive, and their changed migration direction is inherited by their offspring. Provided sufficient food and shelter is available, they are surprisingly hardy, able to tolerate temperatures down to at least -4 °C (25 °F).
 
 Reproduction
 Most male hummingbirds take no part in nesting. Most species make a neatly woven cup in a tree branch. Two white eggs are laid, which despite being the smallest of all bird eggs, are in fact large relative to the hummingbird's adult size. Incubation is typically 14???19 days. The nest is usually about the size of a pocket watch.
 
 Systematics and evolution
 Traditionally, hummingbirds are placed in the order Apodiformes, which also contains the swifts. In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, hummingbirds are separated as a new order, Trochiliformes, but this is not well supported by additional evidence. Hummingbirds' wings are hollow and fragile, making fossilization difficult and leaving their evolutionary history a mystery. Some scientists also believe that the hummingbird evolved relatively recently. Scientists also theorize that hummingbirds originated in South America, where there is the greatest species diversity. Brazil and Ecuador contain over half of the known species.
 
 There are between 325 and 340 species of hummingbird, depending on taxonomic viewpoint, historically divided into two subfamilies, the hermits (subfamily Phaethornithinae, 34 species in six genera), and the typical hummingbirds (subfamily Trochilinae, all the others).
 
 The modern diversity of hummingbirds is thought by evolutionary biologists to have evolved in South America, as the great majority of the species are found there. However, the ancestor of extant hummingbirds may have lived in parts of Europe to what is southern Russia today.
 
 Genetic analysis has indicated that the hummingbird lineage diverged from their closest relatives some 35 million years ago, in the Late Eocene, but fossil evidence is limited. Fossil hummingbirds are known from the Pleistocene of Brazil and the Bahamas???though neither has yet been scientifically described???and there are fossils and subfossils of a few extant species known, but until recently, older fossils had not been securely identifiable as hummingbirds.
 
 In 2004, Dr. Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main identified two 30-million-year-old hummingbird fossils and published his results in Nature. The fossils of this primitive hummingbird species, named Eurotrochilus inexpectatus ("unexpected European hummingbird"), had been sitting in a museum drawer in Stuttgart; they had been unearthed in a clay pit at Wiesloch-Frauenweiler, south of Heidelberg, Germany and, because it was assumed that hummingbirds never occurred outside the Americas, were not recognized to be hummingbirds until Mayr took a closer look at them.
 
 Fossils of birds not clearly assignable to either hummingbirds or a related, extinct family, the Jungornithidae, have been found at the Messel pit and in the Caucasus, dating from 40???35 mya, indicating that the split between these two lineages indeed occurred at that date. The areas where these early fossils have been found had a climate quite similar to the northern Caribbean or southernmost China during that time. The biggest remaining mystery at the present time is what happened to hummingbirds in the roughly 25 million years between the primitive Eurotrochilus and the modern fossils. The astounding morphological adaptations, the decrease in size, and the dispersal to the Americas and extinction in Eurasia all occurred during this timespan. DNA-DNA hybridization results  suggest that the main radiation of South American hummingbirds at least partly took place in the Miocene, some 12???13 mya, during the uplifting of the northern Andes.
 
 Lists of species and genera
 Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin 
 Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilia amazilia 
 Amethyst Woodstar Calliphlox amethystina 
 Amethyst-throated Hummingbird Lampornis amethystinus 
 Amethyst-throated Sunangel Heliangelus amethysticollis 
 Andean Emerald Agyrtria franciae 
 Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella 
 Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna 
 Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus 
 Antillean Mango Anthracothorax dominicus 
 Azure-crowned Hummingbird Agyrtria cyanocephala 
 Bahama Woodstar Calliphlox evelynae 
 Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri 
 Bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon guerinii 
 Bearded Mountaineer Oreonympha nobilis 
 Beautiful Hummingbird Calothorax pulcher 
 Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae 
 Berylline Hummingbird Saucerottia beryllina 
 Black Inca Coeligena prunellei 
 Black Jacobin Florisuga fuscus 
 Black Metaltail Metallura phoebe 
 Black-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron dorsale 
 Black-bellied Hummingbird Eupherusa nigriventris 
 Black-bellied Thorntail Popelairia langsdorffi 
 Black-billed Streamertail Trochilus scitulus 
 Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster 
 Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis 
 Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri 
 Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae 
 Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx aurita 
 Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela 
 Black-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia victoriae 
 Black-thighed Puffleg Eriocnemis derbyi 
 Black-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa schreibersii 
 Black-throated Hermit Phaethornis atrimentalis 
 Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis 
 Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps 
 Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys 
 Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides 
 Blue-chested Hummingbird Polyerata amabilis 
 Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorostilbon notatus 
 Blue-fronted Lancebill Doryfera johannae 
 Blue-headed Hummingbird Cyanophaia bicolor 
 Blue-headed Sapphire Hylocharis grayi 
 Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi 
 Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus 
 Blue-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanura 
 Blue-throated Goldentail Hylocharis eliciae 
 Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae 
 Blue-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena helianthea 
 Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer 
 Booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii 
 Brazilian Ruby Clytolaema rubricauda 
 Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris 
 Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus 
 Broad-tipped Hermit Anopetia gounellei 
 Bronze-tailed Comet Polyonymus caroli 
 Bronze-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes (niger) loehkeni 
 Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia 
 Bronze-tailed Thornbill Chalcostigma heteropogon 
 Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aenea 
 Bronzy Inca Coeligena coeligena 
 Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni 
 Brown Violet-ear Colibri delphinae 
 Buff-bellied Hermit Phaethornis subochraceus 
 Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis 
 Buff-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus duidae 
 Buff-tailed Coronet Boissonneaua flavescens 
 Buff-tailed Sicklebill Eutoxeres condamini 
 Buff-thighed Puffleg Haplophaedia assimilis 
 Buff-winged Starfrontlet Coeligena lutetiae 
 Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax 
 Bumblebee Hummingbird Atthis heloisa 
 Calliope Hummingbird Stellula calliope 
 Canivet's Emerald Chlorostilbon canivetii 
 Charming Hummingbird Polyerata decora 
 Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia castaneiventris 
 Chestnut-breasted Coronet Boissonneaua matthewsii 
 Chilean Woodstar Eulidia yarrellii 
 Chimborazo Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo 
 Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi 
 Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila 
 Cinnamon-throated Hermit Phaethornis nattereri 
 Collared Inca Coeligena torquata 
 Colorful Puffleg Eriocnemis mirabilis 
 Copper-rumped Hummingbird Saucerottia tobaci 
 Copper-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cupreicauda 
 Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus 
 Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae 
 Coppery Thorntail Popelairia letitiae 
 Coppery-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis cupreoventris 
 Coppery-headed Emerald Elvira cupreiceps 
 Coppery-naped Puffleg Eriocnemis sapphiropygia 
 Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae 
 Cozumel Emerald Chlorostilbon forficatus 
 Crimson Topaz Topaza pella 
 Cuban Emerald Chlorostilbon ricordii 
 Dot-eared Coquette Lophornis gouldii 
 Dusky Hummingbird Cynanthus sordidus 
 Dusky-throated Hermit Phaethornis squalidus 
 Ecuadorian Piedtail Phlogophilus hemileucurus 
 Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis alinae 
 Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Abeillia abeillei 
 Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix 
 Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi 
 Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides 
 Festive Coquette Lophornis chalybeus 
 Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra 
 Fiery-tailed Awlbill Avocettula recurvirostris 
 Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis 
 Fire-throated Metaltail Metallura eupogon 
 Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata 
 Frilled Coquette Lophornis magnificus 
 Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis 
 Garnet-throated Hummingbird Lamprolaima rhami 
 Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas 
 Gilded Sapphire Hylocharis chrysura 
 Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon aureoventris 
 Glittering-throated Emerald Polyerata fimbriata 
 Glowing Puffleg Eriocnemis vestitus 
 Glow-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ardens 
 Golden Starfrontlet Coeligena eos 
 Golden-bellied Starfrontlet Coeligena bonapartei 
 Golden-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis mosquera 
 Golden-crowned Emerald Chlorostilbon auriceps 
 Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone 
 Gorgeted Puffleg Eriocnemis isabellae 
 Gorgeted Sunangel Heliangelus strophianus 
 Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor 
 Gould's Inca Coeligena inca 
 Gould's Jewelfront Heliodoxa aurescens 
 Gray-bellied Comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris 
 Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis 
 Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis 
 Gray-tailed Mountain-gem Lampornis cinereicauda 
 Great Sapphirewing Pterophanes cyanopterus 
 Great-billed Hermit Phaethornis malaris 
 Green Hermit Phaethornis guy 
 Green Mango Anthracothorax viridis 
 Green Thorntail Discosura conversii 
 Green Violet-ear Colibri thalassinus 
 Green-and-white Hummingbird Leucippus viridicauda 
 Green-backed Firecrown Sephanoides sephaniodes 
 Green-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia viridigaster 
 Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii 
 Green-breasted Mountain-gem Lampornis sybillae 
 Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula 
 Green-crowned Woodnymph Thalurania fannyi 
 Green-fronted Hummingbird Agyrtria viridifrons 
 Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae 
 Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni 
 Greenish Puffleg Haplophaedia aureliae 
 Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice 
 Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae 
 Green-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia nuna 
 Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus 
 Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula 
 Green-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis viridipallens 
 Hispaniolan Emerald Chlorostilbon swainsonii 
 Hoary Puffleg Haplophaedia lugens 
 Honduran Emerald Polyerata luciae 
 Hooded Visorbearer Augastes lumachella 
 Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii 
 Horned Sungem Heliactin bilophus 
 Hyacinth Visorbearer Augastes scutatus 
 Indigo-capped Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanifrons 
 Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango 
 Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis 
 Koepcke's Hermit Phaethornis koepckeae 
 Lazuline Sabrewing Campylopterus falcatus 
 Little Hermit Phaethornis longuemareus 
 Little Sunangel Heliangelus micrastur 
 Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus 
 Loja Hummingbird Amazilia alticola 
 Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris 
 Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris 
 Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus 
 Long-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus excellens 
 Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingi 
 Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii 
 Longuemare's Sunangel Heliangelus clarisse 
 Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer 
 Magenta-throated Woodstar Calliphlox bryantae 
 Magnificent Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens 
 Mangrove Hummingbird Polyerata boucardi 
 Many-spotted Hummingbird Leucippus hypostictus 
 Maranhao Hermit Phaethornis (nattereri) maranhaoensis 
 Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis 
 Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza 
 Mexican Woodnymph Thalurania ridgwayi 
 Minute Hermit Phaethornis idaliae 
 Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera 
 Mountain Velvetbreast Lafresnaya lafresnayi 
 Napo Sabrewing Campylopterus villaviscensio 
 Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus 
 Neblina Metaltail Metallura odomae 
 Needle-billed Hermit Phaethornis philippii 
 Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper 
 Olivaceous Thornbill Chalcostigma olivaceum 
 Olive-spotted Hummingbird Leucippus chlorocercus 
 Orange-throated Sunangel Heliangelus mavors 
 Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus 
 Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes (niger) leucurus 
 Peacock Coquette Lophornis pavoninus 
 Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda 
 Peruvian Piedtail Phlogophilus harterti 
 Peruvian Sheartail Thaumastura cora 
 Pink-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa gularis 
 Plain-bellied Emerald Agyrtria leucogaster 
 Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii 
 Planalto Hermit Phaethornis pretrei 
 Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi 
 Puerto Rican Emerald Chlorostilbon maugaeus 
 Purple-backed Sunbeam Aglaeactis aliciae 
 Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum 
 Purple-bibbed Whitetip Urosticte benjamini 
 Purple-chested Hummingbird Polyerata rosenbergi 
 Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny 
 Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti 
 Purple-throated Carib Eulampis jugularis 
 Purple-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis calolaema 
 Purple-throated Sunangel Heliangelus viola 
 Purple-throated Woodstar Calliphlox mitchellii 
 Racket-tailed Coquette Discosura longicauda 
 Rainbow Starfrontlet Coeligena iris 
 Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Chalcostigma herrani 
 Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus 
 Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber 
 Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganura 
 Rondonia Emerald Agyrtria rondoniae 
 Royal Sunangel Heliangelus regalis 
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris 
 Ruby-topaz Hummingbird Chrysolampis mosquitus 
 Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus 
 Rufous Sabrewing Campylopterus rufus 
 Rufous-breasted Hermit Glaucis hirsuta 
 Rufous-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus hyperythrus 
 Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps 
 Rufous-cheeked Hummingbird Goethalsia bella 
 Rufous-crested Coquette Lophornis delattrei 
 Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii 
 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl 
 Rufous-throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina 
 Rufous-vented Whitetip Urosticte ruficrissa 
 Rufous-webbed Brilliant Heliodoxa branickii 
 Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus 
 Santa Marta Woodstar Chaetocercus astreans 
 Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird Lepidopyga lilliae 
 Sapphire-spangled Emerald Polyerata lactea 
 Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Lepidopyga coeruleogularis 
 Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani 
 Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius 
 Scaled Metaltail Metallura aeneocauda 
 Scale-throated Hermit Phaethornis eurynome 
 Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii 
 Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla 
 Scissor-tailed Hummingbird Hylonympha macrocerca 
 Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis 
 Shining-green Hummingbird Lepidopyga goudoti 
 Short-crested Coquette Lophornis brachylophus 
 Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani 
 Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura 
 Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura 
 Slender-tailed Woodstar Microstilbon burmeisteri 
 Snowcap Microchera albocoronata 
 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward 
 Sombre Hummingbird Campylopterus cirrochloris 
 Sooty Barbthroat Threnetes niger 
 Sooty-capped Hermit Phaethornis augusti 
 Spangled Coquette Lophornis stictolophus 
 Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans 
 Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird Tilmatura dupontii 
 Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys 
 Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii 
 Steely-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia saucerrottei 
 Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri 
 Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii 
 Stripe-breasted Starthroat Heliomaster squamosus 
 Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia 
 Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis 
 Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura 
 Sword-billed Hummingbird Ensifera ensifera 
 Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus 
 Tepui Goldenthroat Polytmus milleri 
 Tooth-billed Hummingbird Androdon aequatorialis 
 Tourmaline Sunangel Heliangelus exortis 
 Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus 
 Tumbes Hummingbird Leucippus baeri 
 Turquoise-throated Puffleg Eriocnemis godini 
 Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina 
 Velvet-browed Brilliant Heliodoxa xanthogonys 
 Velvet-purple Coronet Boissonneaua jardini 
 Venezuelan Sylph Aglaiocercus berlepschi 
 Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis 
 Versicolored Emerald Agyrtria versicolor 
 Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima 
 Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus 
 Violet-bellied Hummingbird Damophila julie 
 Violet-capped Hummingbird Goldmania violiceps 
 Violet-capped Woodnymph Thalurania glaucopis 
 Violet-chested Hummingbird Sternoclyta cyanopectus 
 Violet-crowned Hummingbird Agyrtria violiceps 
 Violet-crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica 
 Violet-fronted Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri 
 Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti 
 Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis 
 Violet-throated Metaltail Metallura baroni 
 Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer 
 Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami 
 Volcano Hummingbird Selasphorus flammula 
 Wedge-billed Hummingbird Augastes geoffroyi 
 Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela 
 Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus curvipennis 
 White-bearded Hermit Phaethornis hispidus 
 White-bellied Emerald Agyrtria candida 
 White-bellied Hummingbird Leucippus chionogaster 
 White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus 
 White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant 
 White-browed Hermit Phaethornis stuarti 
 White-chested Emerald Agyrtria brevirostris 
 White-chinned Sapphire Hylocharis cyanus 
 White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis 
 White-eared Hummingbird Hylocharis leucotis 
 White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora 
 White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus 
 White-tailed Emerald Elvira chionura 
 White-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus guainumbi 
 White-tailed Hillstar Urochroa bougueri 
 White-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa poliocerca 
 White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis 
 White-tailed Starfrontlet Coeligena phalerata 
 White-throated Hummingbird Leucochloris albicollis 
 White-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis castaneoventris 
 White-tipped Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila 
 White-tufted Sunbeam Aglaeactis castelnaudii 
 White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii 
 White-vented Violet-ear Colibri serrirostris 
 White-whiskered Hermit Phaethornis yaruqui 
 Wine-throated Hummingbird Atthis ellioti 
 Wire-crested Thorntail Popelairia popelairii 
 Xantus's Hummingbird Hylocharis xantusii 
 
 Hummingbirds and humans
 Hummingbirds sometimes fly into garages and become trapped. It is widely believed that this is because they mistake the hanging (usually red-color) door-release handle for a flower, although hummingbirds can also get trapped in enclosures that do not contain anything red. Once inside, they may be unable to escape because their natural instinct when threatened or trapped is to fly upward. This is a life-threatening situation for hummingbirds, as they can become exhausted and die in a relatively short period of time, possibly as little as an hour. If a trapped hummingbird is within reach, it can often be caught gently and released outdoors. It will lie quietly in the space between cupped hands until released. Alternatively, a hummingbird will land on a soft-bristled broom if held up to the bird and thence the bird may be carried outside to fly away safely.
 
 Feeders and artificial nectar
 The diet of hummingbirds requires an energy source (typically nectar) and a protein source (typically small insects). Providing many plants that carry blooms used by hummingbirds is the safest way to provide nectar for hummingbirds. Through careful plant selection, gardens may contain plants that bloom at different times to attract hummingbirds throughout the seasons they are present in an area. Placing these plants near windows affords a good view of the birds. Hummingbirds will also take synthetic nectar from artificial feeders. Such feeders allow people to observe and enjoy hummingbirds up-close while providing the hummingbirds with a reliable supply of nectar, especially when flower blossoms are less abundant. Maintaining cleanliness of the feeder is essential for the health of the birds. Homemade nectar can be made from 1 part white, granulated table sugar to 4 parts water, boiled to make it easier to dissolve the sugar and to purify the solution so that it will stay fresh longer. The water should be boiled before measuring to ensure that the ratio of sugar to water remains 1???4. The cooled nectar is then poured into the feeder.
 
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