THE WORLD’S SMALLEST BIRD: CUBAN COLIBRÍ (ZUN ZÚN)
In the warm climate and abundant tropical vegetation of that ‘green alligator’ Cuba is called – is the only hummingbird species habitat of the “world’s smallest bird.”
This bird intensely active, spend more energy -relative to its diminutive size of any warm- blooded animal.
It is vibrating faster (about 60 flaps per second) and allows to move at a speed of 80km/per hour in mating season runs nuptial at high altitudes, which require about 200 flaps per second.
The colorful plumage is no due to pigmentation, but the refraction of light, because their feathers have prismatic configuration.
The species of smaller size is the bee hummingbird or bee elf (Mellisuga helenae), whose beak and tail is only about 5.5 inches, exclusive of Cuba and was discovered by the German naturalist Juan Cristóbal Gundlach in mid-nineteenth century..
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The male is 63mm, has ruby feathers on his head, cheeks and throat. When “saw” Wedding plumage (red or ruby on the upper body blue) looks on the forehead or cheeks, short feathers, and other long throat, which vibrate when sings.
The female, greenish, lays eggs during May and June in a cup-shaped nest, built with lichens, fibers and spider webs.
Known universally by hummingbirds, up the long family of “Trochilidae”, it represents about 300 species throughout the Americas, but the Bee Hummingbird, the smallest and arguably the most beautiful, is endemic to CUBA .
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