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The red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Jamaica and is the national bird of the country. [4] [5] [6]
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
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Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong ) are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding , songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
Video of a hummingbird building a nest. Male hummingbirds do not take part in nesting. [140] Most species build a cup-shaped nest on the branch of a tree or shrub. [141] The nest varies in size relative to the particular species – from smaller than half a walnut shell to several centimeters in diameter. [140]
Video: Birds in Winter: c-11m: April 11, 1975: Birds in Winter: David A. Smart (producer); Philip A. DuMont: c-11m: December 5, 1946: Birds of the Arctic: c-12m: March 25, 1974: Video: Birds of the Countryside: Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr. c-10m: 1945, revised January 12, 1954, revised 3rd edition 1962: Video (1962 version) Birds of the Dooryard ...
The sword-billed hummingbird is the only known bird whose bill is longer than the rest of the body, excluding the tail. [ 11 ] [ 13 ] It is black, heavy, and slightly upturned. [ 11 ] The extremely long bill helps the species feed on flowers with long corollas that are inaccessible to other species.
Printable version; In other projects ... Flight calls are vocalisations made by birds in flight, ...