Meet The Bee Hummingbird, The Smallest Living bird in the World

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The smallest bird in the entire world is this little nectar-sipper. It consumes forest flowers, particularly those that are arranged more horizontally. The  Males are often be seen hanging on tall, open trees. With an iridescent red head and blue upperparts, the male is most beautiful. The female is dirty below but is also blue above. Due to its diminutive size and very small bill, this species is easily recognized. This species gets its name from the sound that the wings produce when it is flying, which is similar to a bumblebee.

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Distribution
Cuba, a Caribbean island south of Florida in the United States, is the  home to the Bee Hummingbird, which has patchy populations in Habana, Sierra de Anafe, the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Zapata Swamp, Moa, and Mayar and the Guantánamo shore.There are some claims that these little birds have vanished from that island.

Additionally, a number of bee were reported to be sighted  on the nearby islands of Jamaica and Haiti. Santo Domingo and (Lack, 1971; Tyrrell, 1990). Some experts believe that these sightings were actually of the larger and more comparable to Vervain Hummingbird.

They are allegedly vagrants in the Bahamas, a collection of islands to the north of Cuba. A female bee hummingbird was spotted feeding in the Delnor Wiggins Pass State Park in Naples, Florida, in 2015, according to park ranger Lourdes Quiterio of the state of Florida.

The majority of these birds live in dense coastal Forests.

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