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Today we have to know a little at these amazing creatures have fascinated me: Hummingbirds.

Hummingbirds quickly captured the imagination of humans, creating fantastic tales and stories, and even Christopher Columbus wrote in his diary hummingbirds and a few years after discovery of the New World, it took the Pope a hummingbird skin as a gift. Birds are native to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Currently there are about 330 species of hummingbirds.

One of the most striking peculiarities of these creatures as “magic” is his way of flying, which is similar to that of an insect is the only bird that can fly to after, holding in the air at one point thanks to the swift vibration of their wings. When a hummingbird flies, it is very difficult to distinguish the wing of another, and even creates an optical effect that makes us believe that is suspended in a vacuum while eating nectar.

Allowing you to do this balancing act in the air is this rapid vibration, which emits a small sound like a whisper or slight tingling. This little one has a size of between 5 cm and 20 cm in rare cases, lacks a robust and strong legs like other birds, is weak and short by making use of them just to hold onto branches. Its tail is able to take strange forms and may be lined with feathers of various colors and shapes. The bill is another striking feature, as it is very long and pointed tongue keeping it in the form of a tube used as a straw to absorb the nectar of flowers that provide food.

The bold bright colors, iridescent hummingbird feathers are the result of the refraction of light incident on the structure of the feathers being much more vivid colors and iridescent than those of other pigmented birds with feathers only. In their feathers may appear conjugated everyone rainbow colors with bright shades that an artist can imagine.

The nests are created by females without male assistance, on a twig or a leaf vegetable fiber, bits of moss and fixing it… so once built webs. Usually shaped like a half sphere with a size of a walnut and once finished the female lays two eggs about the size of a pea and is incubated until they are born, taking care of the chicks alone at birth and have a wide flat beak and over time they sharpen anger. The longevity of the Hummingbird is estimated at between three and four years. Read the rest of this entry »