Vervain hummingbird
| Vervain hummingbird | |
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| In Jamaica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Mellisuga |
| Species: | M. minima
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| Binomial name | |
| Mellisuga minima | |
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Trochilus minimus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima) is a species of hummingbird found in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica, and is a vagrant to Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and heavily degraded former forests.
It is considered the second-smallest bird in the world after the bee hummingbird. Typical length is 6 cm (2.4 in), including the bill, and weight is 2–2.4 g (0.071–0.085 oz).[2] It also has among the smallest eggs in the bird world, with an average length of 1 cm (0.39 in) and weight of 0.375 g.
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Feeding, Jamaica
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References
- ^ "Mellisuga minima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22688229A93187970. 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22688229A93187970.en.
{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ Steven Latta; Christopher Rimmer; Allan Keith; James Wiley; Herbert Raffaele; Kent McFarland; Eladio Fernandez (15 May 2010). Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Princeton University Press. pp. 135–. ISBN 978-0-691-11891-8. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
Further reading
- Raffaele, Herbert; James Wiley, Orlando Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele (2003) Birds of the West Indies, Christopher Helm, London.
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