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Xantus's hummingbird is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long. Males weigh an average of 3.5 g (0.12 oz) and females 3.4 g (0.12 oz). Their bills are straight and about 1.7 cm (0.67 in) long; males' are red with a black tip. Females' maxilla is black with a pinkish base and their mandible pinkish red with a black tip.
They are large, black-and-white, or completely black, with long wings and deeply forked tails. The males have colored inflatable throat pouches. They do not swim or walk and cannot take off from a flat surface. Having the largest wingspan-to-body-weight ratio of any bird, they are essentially aerial, able to stay aloft for more than a week.
The black-chinned hummingbird is 8.25 cm (3.25 in) long. Adults are metallic green above and white below with green flanks. Their bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has a black face and chin, a glossy purple gorget, and a dark forked tail. The female has a dark rounded tail with white tips and no throat patch.
White-tailed hummingbird: Eupherusa poliocerca Elliot, DG, 1871: 308 Oaxaca hummingbird: Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley, JS & Orr, 1964: 309 Stripe-tailed hummingbird: Eupherusa eximia (Delattre, 1843) 310 Black-bellied hummingbird: Eupherusa nigriventris Lawrence, 1868: 311 Scaly-breasted hummingbird: Phaeochroa cuvierii (Delattre & Bourcier ...
The dead hummingbird which hangs around her neck is considered a good luck charm for falling in love in Mexican folklore. [7] An alternative interpretation is that the hummingbird pendant is a symbol of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. [8] Meanwhile, the cat is symbolic of bad luck and death and the monkey is a symbol of evil. [7]
The black jacobin is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long. Males weigh about 9 g (0.32 oz) and females 8 g (0.28 oz). Adults of both sexes are mostly black, with a bronzy-olive lower back and uppertail- and wing-coverts. The flanks are white, the inner rectrices black, and the outer rectrices white with black tips. Juveniles are dark except for a ...
Archilochus is a genus of hummingbirds. It consists of two small migratory species which breed in North America and winter in Central America, Mexico and the southern United States. The genus Archilochus was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach with the black-chinned hummingbird as the type species.
The black-bellied hummingbird is 7 to 8 cm (2.8 to 3.1 in) long and weighs about 3.0 to 3.5 g (0.11 to 0.12 oz). Males have a black breast and belly that provide the species' English name; their forehead and face are also black. The sides of the breast are green and the undertail coverts white. They have mostly bronze green upperparts with ...