Apodiformes

Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

HBW 5, p. 468

  • Small to tiny fast-flying birds, with extensively iridescent plumage, many with strikingly coloured gorget or crest; thin bill extremely variable, from short to extremely long, from straight to sharply curved; feet tiny.
  • New World, mainly Neotropical.
  • Wide variety of habitats, wherever suitable food plants occur, from sea-level up to c. 5000 m, with greatest diversity in submontane zone.
  • 102 genera, 333 species, 684 taxa.
  • 32 species threatened; 1 definitely extinct since 1600.
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102 genera, 333 species

5574 files covering
100 genera (98%)
314 species (94%)

 

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97 genera (95%)
276 species (83%)
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99 genera (97%)
305 species (92%)
    181 sound recordings covering
65 genera (64%)
144 species (43%)
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