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Bee Hummingbird — printable fact sheet
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Bee Hummingbird
Mellisuga helenae
The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world: about 5 to 6 cm long, and weighing under 2 g — less than a US penny — with a nest the size of a thimble and eggs the size of a coffee bean. Everything about it is pushed against physiological limits. Its heart can be…
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- A Bee Hummingbird’s egg is about the size of a coffee bean and is one of the smallest of any bird species.
- Its nest is built of cobweb, lichen and bark, and the spider silk allows the cup to stretch as the chicks grow. A single bee hummingbird can visit well over a thousand flowers in a day, and it is a significant pollinator of a suite of Cuban plants. In display, males climb and dive while producing a high metallic sound, and their throat feathers flash iridescent pink-red at the right angle and look black at the wrong one.
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