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The Collaborative International Dictionary
hummingbird \hummingbird\, humming bird \humming bird\n. (Zo["o]l.), any bird of the family Trochilid[ae], of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers, and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise; the wings are specialized for hovering flight, but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
WordNet
n. tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight
Wikipedia
Hummingbirds are New World birds that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the range. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm bee hummingbird weighing less than a U.S. penny (2.5 g).
They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, typically around 50 times per second, allowing them also to fly at speeds exceeding .
Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal. To conserve energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they go into torpor, a state similar to hibernation, slowing metabolic rate to 1/15th of its normal rate.
"Hummingbird" is a popular song written by Don Robertson released in 1955. The best-known version of the song was the recording by Les Paul and Mary Ford (recorded July 9, 1955; Capitol Records catalog number 3165). This version reached #7 on the Billboard chart. It was also recorded at about the same time by Frankie Laine ( Columbia Records catalog number 40526, reaching #17 on the chart) and by The Chordettes ( Cadence Records catalog number 1267). On the Cash Box magazine Best-Selling Record chart, where all versions were combined, the song reached #6 in 1955.
Hummingbird is the first studio album by Canadian country music artist Jessica Robinson. The album was released by Royalty Records on July 26, 2005.
Hummingbird is a studio album by Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins. The songs are a mixture of jointly-composed originals, reworkings of songs from Strawbs albums and Dave Cousins' solo album Two Weeks Last Summer, together with Wakeman instrumental compositions presented as codas to the Cousins songs.
The album cover is painted by Wakeman's girlfriend, Italian artist Alina Bencini.
Hummingbird is an EP by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It was made using a cut-up soundfile of "Three Little Orchestra Pieces" by Arnold Schoenberg (conducted by Robert Craft).
It was released as a 7" pressed on translucent purple vinyl, in a blue textile package with two postcards. It is limited to 500 copies. A different version was later included on Merzzow.
"Hummingbird" is a song recorded by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in April 1990 as the fourth single from the album Kentucky Thunder. The song reached #20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Hummingbird is the second studio album by American indie rock band Local Natives, released on January 29, 2013 on Frenchkiss Records in the US, and on Infectious Records in Europe. Produced by The National guitarist Aaron Dessner, the album was preceded by the singles, " Breakers" and "Heavy Feet." "Breakers" reached #12 on the Billboard Top 200. The song "Mt. Washington" was also featured in the 2015 video game Life Is Strange.
Hummingbird (released as Redemption in the U.S.) is a 2013 British action drama film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Jason Statham.
Hummingbird is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She made her debut in the 2012 Scarlet Spider comic book series written by Christopher Yost.
"Hummingbird" is a song by American soft rock duo Seals and Crofts, released as a single in 1973. It was the second single from their fourth studio album, Summer Breeze, the follow-up to the LP's title track.
The song reached No. 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 15 on the Cash Box Top 100. "Hummingbird" also reached number 12 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart.
A hummingbird is a member of a family (Trochilidae) of very small birds.
Hummingbird may also refer to:
In music:
- Hummingbird (band), a late 1970s British rock band
- Hummingbird (Merzbow album), a 2001 album
- Hummingbird (Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins album), a 2002 album
- Hummingbird (Jessica Robinson album), a 2005 album
- Hummingbird (Local Natives album), a 2013 studio album by Local Natives
- Humming Bird (Paul Gonsalves album)
- Hummingbirds (EP), an EP by Venus Hum
- "Hummingbird" (1955 song), a 1955 pop song
- Hummingbird (Seals and Crofts song), a single by Seals and Crofts on the 1972 album Summer Breeze
- "Hummingbird" (Restless Heart song), covered by Ricky Skaggs
- "Hummingbirds", a single by Venus Hum from the 2001 album Venus Hum
- "Hummingbird", a song by Wilco on the 2004 album A Ghost Is Born
- "Hummingbird", a single by Born Ruffians from the 2008 album Red, Yellow & Blue
- "Humming Bird", a song by Indica on their 2014 album Shine
- The Hummingbirds, an Australian jangle pop band
- Gibson Hummingbird, an acoustic guitar
- Humming Bird Records, a record label
In transportation:
- Boeing A160 Hummingbird, a pilotless helicopter
- de Havilland Humming Bird, a 1920s ultralight monoplane
- Gemini Hummingbird, ultralight aircraft
- Humming Bird (train), of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
- Hummingbird Highway in Belize
- Lockheed XV-4 Hummingbird, an experimental vertical takeoff jet airplane
- Nelson Hummingbird PG-185B motorglider
In technology:
- Hummingbird Processor, a mobile processor from Samsung
- Hummingbird Ltd., a subsidiary of Open Text which produces the Exceed software product
- Google Hummingbird, the latest search engine algorithm used by Google
- See also Hummingbad, a type of malware for Android phones and tablets
In media:
- Hummingbird (film), a 2013 film starring Jason Statham
- The Humming Bird, a 1924 American silent crime drama film
- Hummingbird (comics), the codename of Aracely Penalba, a Marvel Comics character
In other:
- Macroglossum stellatarum, the Hummingbird Hawk-moth
- Idol Defense Force Hummingbird, a 1993 four-episode OVA anime series
- Hummingbird Photo, chain of photo developing labs
Hummingbird were a British rock band, formed in 1974 by Bobby Tench of The Jeff Beck Group and Streetwalkers fame. Hummingbird recorded three successful albums, released by A&M using Ian "Sammy" Samwell as their record producer. The original line up included members of the second Jeff Beck Group, vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench, keyboardist Max Middleton, bassist Clive Chaman, drummer Conrad Isidore and second guitarist Bernie Holland. At the start of sessions for their first album they were joined by Jeff Beck for a brief period but he did not contribute to the album and left to work on his own project. After the first album Bernie Holland was replaced by guitarist Robert Ahwai and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie replaced Isidore on the next two albums,vocalists Madeline Bell and Liza Strike were brought in to complement the band. They found success mainly in the United States, also in Europe and Japan.
Usage examples of "hummingbird".
We put out seed and water and birds flocked -- gnatcatchers, hummingbirds, red-tailed hawks, crows, brilliantly hued mountain bluebirds.
Then the screes and cries of birds sounded, for the bird-sellers were shaking the small wooden cages packed with wood pigeons, owls, mousebirds, bee-eaters, hummingbirds, crows, blue rockthrushes, warblers, flycatchers, wagtails, hawks, falcons, eagles, and all manner of swans, ducks, chickens, and geese.
She looked around the room, the pink and green flowers, the hummingbird pictures, the particleboard chest with oak veneer, the framed letter from the Holiday Inn management on the back of the door, her own brush and watch on top of the night table beside her.
She bought only one hat from Madame Reboux, but on the other hand she filled a trunk with sprigs of artificial cherries, stalks of all the felt flowers she could find, branches of ostrich plumes, crests of peacocks, tailfeathers of Asiatic roosters, entire pheasants, hummingbirds, and a countless variety of exotic birds preserved in midflight, midcall, midagony: everything that had been used in the past twenty years to change the appearance of hats.
Arne enough rums and beers, and the local women whirred about him like hummingbirds.
For example, among parent birds, both male and female albatrosses, male but not female ostriches, females but not males of most hummingbird species, and no brush turkeys of either sex are instinctively programmed to bring food to their chicks, although both sexes of all of these species are physically and anatomically perfectly capable of doing so.
Whenever hummingbirds hovered at the spout to take a sip, hundreds of ants jumped on them, and for about six seconds there was a furious blurry thrashing in the air, then a spanking clean hummingbird skeleton dropped with a minuscule clunk onto the earth.
Avery was standing in front of the bay window staring out at some frantic hummingbirds when she overheard Carrie tell the man to throw them in the nearest Dumpster.
Herbie began to notice thin and curiously unbroken straight lines of the tiny beasts trickling down his walls and parading out onto his floor, heading for all those spots where sugarwater drops had spilled while he was loading the hummingbird feeder.
Teron the Hummingbird smiled, reveling in a feeling of supernal potency known only to wielders of magic.
The moment I was next to it, a windlike force used to make me hover over it, like a hummingbird.
As Fulkerson said, Beaton had caught on with the delicacy of a hummingbird and the tenacity of a bulldog to the virtues of their illustrative process, and had worked it for all it was worth.
But the Caribe houses were in evidence, and the turtle stew was tasty, and the fishing was good, and Siete Altares was something out of a South Seas movie, each pool shaded by ceiba trees, their branches dripping with orchids, hummingbirds flitting everywhere in the thickets.
She was accompanied by two women wearing ash-coloured wimples, a squad of float-cams and personal security wasps and a semi-transparent entourage of entoptics: nymphs, seraphim, flying-fish and hummingbirds, star-glitter dewdrops and butterflies, in slow cascade around her wedding dress.
Deliriously, ravenously, Richard sent his mind back to the napkin-scarved bottles of old champagne tipped his way by tuxedoed athletes (even the help was hip, was hot) and bims in ra-ra skirts offering canapes made of dodo G-spots and hummingbird helmets, in the octagonal library, where he had mingled with the knowers and philosopher kings of the living wordwhile all the agents and editors and publishers cowered in their nimbus of pelf and preferment: men and women who shunned him.