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, 329 species, 684 taxa.
  • 29 species threatened; 1 definitely extinct since 1600.
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102 genera, 329 species

3890 files covering
99 genera (97%)
305 species (93%)

 

    1758 videos covering
94 genera (92%)
257 species (78%)
    1980 photographs covering
98 genera (96%)
291 species (88%)
    152 sound recordings covering
62 genera (61%)
133 species (40%)
329 305 93 257 78 291 88 133 40