Stats

Lifespan: 5-8 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Temperate woodland
Range: North America
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Speed
Status: Common

About

A medium-small hummingbird resident along the Pacific coast of North America, where males flash a brilliant magenta-pink crown and gorget that reads almost black until sunlight catches it at the right angle. Males perform a dive display ending in a sharp chirp produced not by voice but by air rushing through their flared tail feathers.

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: Calypte
Species: Calypte anna