Black-tailed Trainbearer
Lesbia victoriae
Where is it found?
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Tropical forests and scrub forest
Diet and foraging method
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Probes into flowers with its beak and sucks up nectar through tubes on their tongue.
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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.
Wing structure allows them to beat really quickly for hover feeding.
Social organisation and mating system
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
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
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
