Stats

Lifespan

3-5 yrs

Size

Tiny

Diet

Omnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Tropical rainforest

Range

Caribbean

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Rare

About

This bird lives only in Jamaica, where it flits through forest streams. It has a long, curved beak and a tail that splits into two thin streamers that can move side to side as it hovers.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Trochilus

Species

Trochilus polytmus