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Query: birds of americaResult: 901st of 1886
Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)
Subject: Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)
DKMMNature-Sword-billedHummingbird.gif
Resolution: 402x386 Filesize: 36648b

Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)


Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)

Captured from a WONDERFUL MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM title,
"Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature",
Dorling Kindersley Multimedia, 1995

Dorling Kindersly Multimedia
(reviewed by Univ. of Texsas Library)
http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~reviews/dkmm.html

For more images captured from the CD-ROM title,
http://bioinfo.kordic.re.kr/animal/APAsrch2.cgi?qt=DKMMNature-

Comments
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Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a species of hummingbird from South America and the sole member of the genus Ensifera.

It is noted as the only species of bird to have a bill longer than the rest of its body. This adaptation is to feed on flowers with long corollas such as Passiflora mixta. The tongue is therefore also unusually long.

birds of america
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