Today’s bird

Lucifer Hummingbird

Calothorax lucifer

Family: Hummingbirds

Lucifer Hummingbird is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.

Did you know

  1. Lucifer sheartails have a typical hummingbird flight style while feeding from flowers, catching insects in flight, and flying in straight lines to specific destinations for other food, the nest or for roosting.

  2. The egg incubation duration is about 15 days, and the chicks nest for about 23 days.

  3. The female lays two white eggs in the small cup-like nest, having one or two broods per season.

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