Stats

Lifespan: 3-6 yrs
Size: Tiny
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Coastal scrub
Range: North America
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Speed
Status: Common

About

These tiny birds are famous for their shimmering copper feathers and their amazing ability to hover perfectly still while sipping sweet nectar. Though they are small, they are very brave and will zoom through the air to defend their favorite garden flowers from any intruder.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2.
hatchling
A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Selasphorus
Species: Selasphorus sasin