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Incubation lasts 14 to 23 days, depending on the species, ambient temperature, and female attentiveness to the nest.

Hummingbirds digest their food rapidly due to their small size and high metabolism; a mean retention time less than an hour has been reported. While hovering, hummingbirds do not benefit from the heat loss by air convection during forward flight, except for air movement generated by their rapid wing-beat, possibly aiding convective heat loss from the extended feet. Hummingbirds split from other members of Apodiformes, the insectivorous swifts (family Apodidae) and treeswifts (family Hemiprocnidae), about 42 million years ago, probably in Eurasia. It has been shown that floral abundance (but not floral diversity) influences hummingbird diversity, but that arthropod abundance does not (i. Hummingbird diversity, food niche characters, and assemblage composition along a latitudinal precipitation gradient in the Bolivian lowlands".Within the same geographic region, hummingbird clades coevolved with nectar-bearing plant clades, affecting mechanisms of pollination. In 2013, a 50-million-year-old bird fossil unearthed in Wyoming was found to be a predecessor to hummingbirds and swifts before the groups diverged. Scut Farkas and the Murderous Mariah" in Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.

Although some commercial products contain small amounts of nutritional additives, hummingbirds obtain all necessary nutrients from the insects they eat, rendering added nutrients unnecessary.When air temperatures rise above 36°C (97°F), thermal gradients driving heat passively by convective dissipation from around the eyes, shoulders, and feet are reduced or eliminated, requiring heat dissipation mainly by evaporation and exhalation. This coevolution implies that morphological traits of hummingbirds, such as bill length, bill curvature, and body mass, are correlated with morphological traits of plants, such as corolla length, curvature, and volume. Recordings from a Metallura phoebe hummingbird in noctural torpor at around 3,800 metres (12,500ft) in the Andes mountains showed that body temperature fell to 3. Hummingbirds may be mistaken for hummingbird hawk-moths, which are large, flying insects with hovering capabilities, and exist only in Eurasia.

Spectral sensitivities of photoreceptors and their role in colour discrimination in the green-backed firecrown hummingbird ( Sephanoides sephaniodes)". The hummingbird syrinx morphome: a detailed three-dimensional description of the black jacobin's vocal organ".The dynamic range of metabolic rates in hummingbirds [108] requires a parallel dynamic range in kidney function. These associations are also observed when closely related hummingbirds, such as two species of the same genus, visit distinct sets of flowering species.

Evolutionary flexibility in five hummingbird/plant mutualistic systems: testing temporal and geographic matching". Though many die during their first year of life, especially in the vulnerable period between hatching and fledging, those that survive may occasionally live a decade or more.The avian vocal organ, the syrinx, plays an important role in understanding hummingbird song production. in diameter, commonly attached to a tree branch using spider webs, lichens, moss, and loose strings of plant fibers (image).