If you build it . . . they will come!
A vibrantly colorful hummingbird paradise will thrive with a few flowers & plants that have nutritious & sumptuous nectar as well as a water feature which will allow you to enjoy these fascinating creatures on a daily basis.
What hummingbirds live in Panamá?
Band-tailed Barbthroat
Black-bellied Hummingbird
Black-throated Mango
Blue-chested Hummingbird
Blue-headed Sapphire
Blue-throated Goldentail
Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Bronzy Hermit
Brown Violet-ear
Charming Hummingbird
Fiery-throated Hummingbird
Garden Emerald
Glow-throated Hummingbird
Gorgeted Woodstar
Gray-tailed Mountain-gem
Green-crowned Brilliant
Green-breasted Mango
Green-crowned Woodnymph
Green-fronted Lancebill
Green Hermit
Greenish Puffleg
Green Thorntail
Green Violet-ear
Long-billed Starthroat
Magenta-throated Woodstar
Magnificent Hummingbird
Pale-bellied Hermit
Purple-crowned Fairy
Purple-throated Mountain-gem
Purple-throated Woodstar
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
Rufous-breasted Hermit
Rufous-cheeked Hummingbird
Rufous-crested Coquette
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
Scintillant Hummingbird
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
Snowcap
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
Stripe-throated Hermit
Tooth-billed Hummingbird
Veraguan Mango
Violet-bellied Hummingbird
Violet-capped Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Woodnymph
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Violet Sabrewing
Volcano Hummingbird
Western Long-tailed Hermit
White-bellied Mountain-gem
White-crested Coquette
White-necked Jacobin
White-tailed Emerald
White-throated Mountain-gem
White-tipped Sicklebill
White-vented Plumeleteer
HUMMINGBIRDS FACTS
Can't walk or hop.
Weigh less than a nickel.
Egg is the size of a jellybean.
Nest is the size of a half dollar.
They visit 1,000+ flowers every day.
Consume double its body weight every day.
Drink nectar by moving tongue in & out 13 times per second.
Know how long each flower takes to rejuvenate its nectar, from several minutes to 24 hours.
Flap their wings like a helicopter 12 to 80 beats per second.
Heartbeat in flight is up to 53 beats per second which is 3,180 per minute.
Flocks are called a bouquet, a glittering, a hover, a shimmer, or a tune.
Makes nest with spider silk & other natural resources which expand as babies grow.
At night they go into a hibernation state called torpor & their heart rate can be as low as 250 beats per minute.
Hummingbirds fly & hover like a helicopter: backward or forward, up or down, & even upside down!
