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Hummingbird talismans were prized as drawing sexual potency, energy, vigor, and skill at arms and warfare to the wearer. [225] The Aztec god of war Huitzilopochtli is often depicted in art as a hummingbird. [226] Aztecs believed that fallen warriors would be reincarnated as hummingbirds. [226] [227] The Nahuatl word huitzil translates to ...
Giant hummingbird: Patagona gigas (Vieillot, 1824) 196 Violet-chested hummingbird: Sternoclyta cyanopectus (Gould, 1846) 197 Scissor-tailed hummingbird: Hylonympha macrocerca Gould, 1873: 198 Rivoli's hummingbird: Eugenes fulgens (Swainson, 1827) 199 Talamanca hummingbird: Eugenes spectabilis (Lawrence, 1867) 200 Fiery-throated hummingbird
[18] [19] The clutch varies from 4 to 8 white eggs and these are incubated by both parents for about 11 days. [9] [20] [21] Helpers may be involved in breeding as more than a pair are sometimes seen at a nest. [22] Several parasitic protozoans and coccidia (Sivatoshella lonchurae) have been described from the species. [23] [24] [25] Indian ...
The archosaurian shift from larynx to syrinx must have conferred a selective advantage for crown birds, but the causes for this shift remain unknown. [10] To complicate matters, the syrinx falls into an unusual category of functional evolution: arising from ancestors with a larynx-based sound source, the syrinx contains significant functional overlap with the structure it replaced.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Bangladesh. ... Ixobrychus minutus (Ex) [note 2] [4 ... Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird ...
Hyles lineata is one of the most abundant hawk moths in North America and has a very wide geographic range. [4] This range extends from Central America to southern Canada through Mexico and most of the United States. [5] Some regions of South Asia like Sindh, Pakistan are reported to have habitates to these Moths.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Pakistan. The avifauna of Pakistan include a total of 792 species. The chukar ( Alectoris chukar ) is the official national bird of Pakistan, and the shaheen falcon is the symbolic icon of the Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Avicultural Foundation, one bird is endemic.
Lateral dominance of the hypoglossal nerve conveying messages from the brain to the syrinx was first observed in the 1970s. [3] [4] This lateral dominance was determined in a breed of canary, the waterschlager canary, bred for its long and complex song, by lesioning the ipsilateral tracheosyringeal branch of the hypoglossal nerve, disabling either the left or right syrinx.