0 a very small, brightly coloured bird with a long, thin beak, whose wings move very fast and make a humming noise
1 a very small, brightly colored bird with a long beak that it uses to drink nectar (= sweet liquid) from flowers
One kind of hummingbird has a beak that is longer than its body!
The hummingbird’s beak goes down into flowers to drink the juice.
But do we really know enough about whale and hummingbird behavior to legitimately come to this conclusion?
The maintenance of a costly flowering strategy is probably necessary to guarantee the presence of hummingbirds in the area, the main pollinators.
It has apical inflorescences, exposed in natural forest corridors, thereby facilitating discovery by the territorial and non-territorial hummingbirds that use the corridors as foraging paths.
Each month, we estimated the species richness of the hummingbird community based on the censuses, observations at flowering bromeliads, and opportunistic records.
Coadapted competitors: the flowering seasons of hummingbird-pollinated plants in a tropical forest.
Around 10-12 foraging bouts h-1 were performed, lasting approximately 90-120 s, during which hummingbirds visited 14.6 + 8.3 flowers from 4.67 + 1.95 plants.