Brown Inca
Coeligena wilsoni
(L 4")
Bill near twice the
size of its head.
Siete LaAvenida Ristorante
Los Bancos
15Jan2011
Hummingbirds found their way to
South America, probably via Asia and a
land bridge across the Bering Strait to
Alaska. They left no survivors in their
ancestral lands.
(Robert Sanders)
Coeligena is Latin for celestial,
heaven-born.
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Coopmans
Macaulay
Library
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