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Black-tailed Trainbearer

Lesbia victoriae


Where is it found?

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Tropical forests and scrub forest

Diet and foraging method

Eats plants and animals
Probes into flowers with its beak and sucks up nectar through tubes on their tongue.
Eats nectar
Eats insects

Key adpatations

Extendible tongue for reaching nectar in flowers. Useful because its bill is relatively short.
Wing structure allows them to beat really quickly for hover feeding.

Social organisation and mating system

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Solitary
Breeding
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Females build nests out of green moss and spiders webs to produce a strong, and camouflaged, nest.

Did you know that...?

They are also called lopsided hummingbirds because they have short beaks (for a hummingbird) and really long tail feathers.

Taxonomy

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Picture credits:

Maps from: http://species.mol.org/species/
Black-tailed Trainbearer male image: "Black-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae)" by Michael Woodruff from Spokane, Washington, USA - Black-tailed TrainbearerUploaded by PurpleHz. Licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-tailed_Trainbearer_(Lesbia_victoriae).jpg#/media/File:Black-tailed_Trainbearer_(Lesbia_victoriae).jpg
Drawing: "MonographTrochiSupplementGoul 0196" by John Gould - Gould, John: A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds (1880) [2]. Licenced under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MonographTrochiSupplementGoul_0196.jpg#/media/File:MonographTrochiSupplementGoul_0196.jpg

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