Hummingbird
Hummingbird, any
of about 320 species of small, often brightly coloured birds of the
family Trochilidae, usually placed with the swifts in the order
Apodiformes but sometimes separated in their own order, Trochiliformes.
The brilliant, glittering colours and elaborately specialized feathers
of many species (usually of the males only) led the 19th-century British
naturalist John Gould
to give many hummingbirds exotic common names, many of which are still
in use—e.g., coquette, fairy, hill star, wood star, sapphire, topaz, sun
gem, and sylph.
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