#Hummingbirds for #Feathursday! At an average weight of 2.2 g, the bumblebee hummingbird (Atthis hel
#Hummingbirds for #Feathursday! At an average weight of 2.2 g, the bumblebee hummingbird (Atthis heloisa) is one of the smallest birds in the world. Endemic to the Americas, it is predominantly found in #Mexico, but vagrant specimens have been found in the southwestern United States. #SciArt by Marco Antonio Pineda Maldonado for “Colibríes de México y Norteamérica” (2014) by María del Coro Arizmendi Arriaga and Humberto Berlanga. Digitized in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by CONABIO under CC-BY-NC-SA: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49524501 ———————————— #BHLib #BHL #birds #bird #hummingbird #biodiversity #naturalhistory #CONABIO #BHLMEXICO #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries -- source link
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