Doubleday's hummingbird

Doubleday's hummingbird
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	Cynanthus
Species:	C. doubledayi
Binomial name
Cynanthus doubledayi (Bourcier, 1847)

Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae also known as the turquoise-crowned hummingbird. Some taxonomic authorities, such as the American Ornithological Society consider this bird to be a subspecies of the broad-billed hummingbird, while others consider it distinct.

Geographic Range[]

Cynanthus doubledayi is found along the Pacific coast of south-west Mexico.^[2]

Diet[]

Hummingbirds in generally eat;^[3]

• Nectar;
• Insects;
  • Spiders
  • Larvae
  • Insect eggs.
  • Other such small insects

Insects provide critical nutrients like fat, protein and salts that nectar does not provide.

• Sap;

Sap is consumed when nectar is unavailable and contains enough scructose to sustain the hummingbird's energy use.

• Pollen;

Although pollen is not directly consumed an amount of pollen is stuck to the Hummingbird's beak thus being ingested, only about 10% of ingested pollen is actually digested and provides a small amount of protein.

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