humming bird perched on a stick Mount Roraima Venezuela
roorî me mountain 9 219 ft 2 810 m high at the junction of the boundaries of Brazil Guyana and Venezuela A giant table mountain it is the highest point in the Guiana Highlands common name for members of the family Trochilidae small strictly New World birds related to the swifts and found chiefly in the mountains of South America Hummingbirds vary in size from a 2 1 4 in 6 cm fairy hummingbird of Cuba the smallest of all birds to an 8 1 2 in 21 6 cm giant hummer of the Andes Patagona gigas Their colors are brilliant and jewellike the feathers have a prismatic construction that iridesces in changing light Hummingbirds feed on insects and the nectar of flowers for which their long slender sometimes curved bills are especially adapted They are usually seen hovering or darting at speeds of up to 60 mi 97 km per hour
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