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Honey bird at a nectar feeder - HoneyBird001.jpg
Subject: Honey bird at a nectar feeder - HoneyBird001.jpg
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HoneyBird001-Streamertail Hummingbird-by Jose Sierra Jr.jpg
File size : 131626 bytes File date : 2000:06:16 14:38:38 Resolution: 750x1050 Jpeg process : Progressive Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals Posted Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:02:26 -0400

Honey bird at a nectar feeder - HoneyBird001.jpg


An islands honey bird at a hummingbird feeder.
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The Green-and-black Streamertail, Red-billed Streamertail or Doctor Bird (Trochilus polytmus) is a long-tailed hummingbird.

They are the most abundant and widespread member of the hummingbird family on the island of Jamaica, where the streamertail is also the national bird. Incidentally, the bird known to scientists as Trochilus polytmus, is the name-bearer of the whole hummingbird family, the Trochilidae. Formerly believed to be conspecific with the Black-billed Streamertail of extreme eastern Jamaica, the latter is now considered a distinct species (Trochilus scitulus). Thus, T. polytmus occurs west of a line from Morant Bay following the Morant River, and via Ginger House and the middle Rio Grande to Port Antonio (Gill et al., 1973).

Red-billed streamertail
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