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Sexual dimorphisms in bill size and shape are also present between male and female hummingbirds, [65] where in many clades, females have longer, more curved bills favored for accessing nectar from tall flowers. [66] For males and females of the same size, females tend to have larger bills. [65]

Perinola, a six-sided top, very similar to the dreidel, that is used for a similar game in Latin America. [6] Hummingbirds begin mating when they are a year old. [21] Sex occurs over 3-5 seconds when the male joins its cloaca with the female's, passing sperm to fertilize the female's eggs. [21] Of those species that have been measured during flying, the top flight speeds of hummingbirds exceed 15m/s (54km/h; 34mph). [15] During courtship, some male species dive from 30 metres (100ft) of height above a female at speeds around 23m/s (83km/h; 51mph). [19] [20] Clark, C.J.; Dudley, R. (2009). "Flight costs of long, sexually selected tails in hummingbirds". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1664): 2109–115. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0090. PMC 2677254. PMID 19324747. While all hummingbirds depend on flower nectar to fuel their high metabolisms and hovering flight, coordinated changes in flower and bill shape stimulated the formation of new species of hummingbirds and plants. Due to this exceptional evolutionary pattern, as many as 140 hummingbird species can coexist in a specific region, such as the Andes range. [42]For those who love the game of curling, you can actually play it with spinning tops as well. All you need is some sidewalk chalk to draw circle targets on the ground. Then spin the tops and try to have them land within the targets. Assign points to the targets so you can see who wins. Fossils of birds not clearly assignable to either hummingbirds or a related extinct family, the Jungornithidae, have been found at the Messel pit and in the Caucasus, dating from 35 to 40 million years ago; this indicates that the split between these two lineages indeed occurred around that time. The areas where these early fossils have been found had a climate quite similar to that of the northern Caribbean or southernmost China during that time. The biggest remaining mystery at present is what happened to hummingbirds in the roughly 25 million years between the primitive Eurotrochilus and the modern fossils. The astounding morphological adaptations, the decrease in size, and the dispersal to the Americas and extinction in Eurasia all occurred during this timespan. DNA–DNA hybridization results suggest that the main radiation of South American hummingbirds took place at least partly in the Miocene, some 12 to 13 million years ago, during the uplifting of the northern Andes. [38] Hummingbirds exhibit sexual size dimorphism according to Rensch's rule, [63] in which males are smaller than females in small-bodied species, and males are larger than females in large-bodied species. [64] The extent of this sexual size difference varies among clades of hummingbirds. [64] [65] For example, the Mellisugini clade (bees) exhibits a large size dimorphism, with females being larger than males. [65] Conversely, the Lesbiini clade (coquettes) displays very little size dimorphism; males and females are similar in size. [65] Leaf Forest · Hot Crater · Music Plant · Ice Paradise · Sky Canyon · Techno Base · Egg Utopia · XX · True Area 53 · Special Stages

Trinidad and Tobago, known as "The land of the hummingbird," displays a hummingbird on that nation's coat of arms, [228] 1-cent coin, [229] and livery on its national airline, Caribbean Airlines. [230] Red food dye was once thought to be a favorable ingredient for the nectar in home feeders, but it is unnecessary. [214] Commercial products sold as "instant nectar" or "hummingbird food" may also contain preservatives or artificial flavors, as well as dyes, which are unnecessary and potentially harmful. [214] [215] Although some commercial products contain small amounts of nutritional additives, hummingbirds obtain all necessary nutrients from the insects they eat, rendering added nutrients unnecessary. [216] Visual cues of foraging [ edit ] Maxwell, James Clerk (2003). The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-49560-4. The highest recorded wingbeats for wild hummingbirds during hovering is 88 per second, as measured for the purple-throated woodstar ( Calliphlox mitchellii) weighing 3.2g. [155] The number of beats per second increases above "normal" while hovering during courtship displays (up to 90 per second for the calliope hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope), a wingbeat rate 40% higher than its typical hovering rate. [156] Hummingbirds are restricted to the Americas from south central Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, including the Caribbean. The majority of species occur in tropical and subtropical Central and South America, but several species also breed in temperate climates and some hillstars occur even in alpine Andean highlands at altitudes up to 5,200m (17,100ft). [30]Hummingbird kidneys also have a unique ability to control the levels of electrolytes after consuming nectars with high amounts of sodium and chloride or none, indicating that kidney and glomerular structures must be highly specialized for variations in nectar mineral quality. [111] Morphological studies on Anna's hummingbird kidneys showed adaptations of high capillary density in close proximity to nephrons, allowing for precise regulation of water and electrolytes. [110] [112] Hemoglobin adaptation to altitude [ edit ] Across the estimated 366 species, hummingbird weights range from as small as 2 grams (0.071oz) to as large as 20 grams (0.71oz). [13] [14] They have characteristic long, narrow beaks (bills) which may be straight of varying lengths or highly curved. [13] [14] The bee hummingbird – only 6 centimetres (2.4in) long and weighing about 2 grams (0.071oz) – is the world's smallest bird and smallest warm-blooded vertebrate. [13] [15]