Humming Bird By AMS

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Kingdom: Animalia

The Characteristics that place it there are:

• the cells of humming birds make tissue, the tissues make organs, and so on.

• they ingest their food

• they are heterotrophs

• humming birds have no cell walls

Phylum:Chordata

The characteristics that place humming birds here are:

• they have complete digestive systems

• they have bone endoskeletons

• they have bilateral symmetry

Class: Aves

The characteristics that place humming birds in the group are:

• they have feathers

• they have horny beaks

• they have no teeth

• they have a strong skeleton

• they lay strong, hard shelled eggs with large yolks

• humming birds have muscular stomachs

Order: Apodiformes

The characteristic that places humming birds there is:

• hummingbirds are placed in this order because this order consists of swifts and humming birds

Family: Trochilidae

The characteristic that places humming birds in this group is :

• This family consists only of humming birds

Genius and Species: Archilochus colubris

The characteristics that place this hummingbird into Archilochus colubris:

• Back and head of the humming birds are irredesent green
• The throut of the males are red

References: www.animaldeversity.com

http://www.portalproductions.com/h/

My Dear Friend, the Humming Bird

Humming bird, you and I are the same.

We regard eating sugar a game.

We are both hyper-active,

But, save for a few friends, we are not socially active.

We are exausted when the day is done,

Because we get up with the sun.

Fun Facts!

• Humming birds' wings are flexible at the shoulder, but not in the wrist.

• When humming birds hover, their wings flap in a figure eight.

• Most humming birds flap their wings fifty times a second.

• The feet of humming birds have no purpose except for perching.  They can't even walk with them.

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