Macro photos of hummingbirds — the smallest birds on the planet Bashny.Net

Today we want to show beautiful pictures of hummingbirds. About the feathered inhabitants of our planet, that is, about birds, can talk endlessly, and they all deserve our attention and respect as tireless workers. Every kind of bird in his own good and handsome. But I especially want to highlight the entire list of birds the smallest bird – the Hummingbird.

Live these beautiful creatures from southern Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and there are more than 300 species. The average size Hummingbird from 7cm up to 13cm, but is very tiny specimens, not exceeding 5-6 cm — Hummingbird-bee, the weight of which is 1.6-2 grams.

The Europeans even 300 years ago took a small bird for an insect, quickly fluttering and beating in one place like a dragonfly. Because of its mobility, vitality and speed, which can reach up to 80 km/h, simply amazing, and she is the only bird that can fly backwards. And flapping her little wings are just not visible, because the second they do from 50 to 80 strokes, depending on the size of the birds. Smaller than a Hummingbird, the strokes she can do more, and in the mating season the male is the smallest Hummingbird to make up to 200 strokes per second.

The ability to hover in one place near the flower, quickly flapping the wings, gives the ability of a Hummingbird with its long beak to drink sweet flower nectar. Each species of hummingbirds eat nectar only certain varieties of plants, and if you look closely, even the plumage and inflorescence colors in color they are similar. By the way, many have the opinion that hummingbirds only eat the nectar from a flower, but it is not so. If possible, they in your diet, add small insects which are found on the petals of flowers and leaves. Hummingbird is the most voracious bird on the planet, her ability to fly and move allows her to fly up to 2,000 flowers, and drink nectar over 16 hours to 120 times more and eat the food 2 times more than its body weight. Here are a hyperactive and voracious, though such small birds – hummingbirds.

Fast-moving hummingbirds sometimes do not allow a good look at this bird in detail. Because of its various color of plumage is so beautiful and colorful that only photography gives you the opportunity to explore the incredibly iridescent plumage of birds. Their delicate and graceful, curved and straight, and incredibly long beaks also have its special form and color. A fast moving wings in flight in General is practically invisible. Therefore, we want to show you some of the most bright and colorful photographs of hummingbirds closer thanks to modern macro, where you see all the fine details of its plumage.