Colibri Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world of hummingbird species. Among families trochilidae lai, honey hummingbird (mellisuga helenae) is the Smallest bird, weighs only 1.8 grams with a body length of about 5 cm. The eggs are no bigger than peas. Hummingbird spawn only 2 pieces with a clean white color with no spots at all. The eggs are placed in a nest made of skilled plant fuzz or tied in place cobwebs. The outer side of the nest is usually decorated with lichens and moss little leaves. For the layman, this bird is often considered as insects.
Although the mini-bodied, including high speed hummingbird. They are able to fly with wings 12-80 times per second. So rapidly flapping their wings make the human eye is not able to see clearly. A researcher from the University of California named Christopher Clark observations to measure the speed of a hummingbird females, Christopher took the picture using a super-fast camera that can capture every movement of a hummingbird. He managed to get 500 different pictures in one second. When mating, the male hummingbird even flap their wings up to 200 times per second. Compared with other birds, the number of hummingbird feathers are at least about 1000 strands, compared with other birds there that have up to 25000 strands of hair.
Hummingbirds are brightly colored birds that live mostly in North America and South America. A hummingbird has about a thousand feathers that shimmered so as to reflect and diffuse light colors - colorful bird that can be changed when moving like oil on water.
There are more than 300 species of hummingbirds live in the Amazon jungle region, South America. While the type of Sword Billed hummingbird, ensifera ensifera living in the western part of the Andes mountain forests.
Scientific classification of hummingbird
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Upakelas: Neornithes
Infrakelas: Neognathae
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Phaethornithinae, Trochilinae
Genus: Colibri