Bee Hummingbird

• GeneralThe smallest bird in the world: 6 cm and 2 g, less than a coin.
• It is the smallest bird on the planet: it weighs some two grams, less than a one-cent coin, and there are butterflies and beetles larger than it.
• Its heart beats more than twelve hundred times a minute in flight and its wings beat eighty times a second, producing the humming from which its onomatopoeic Cuban name is taken.
• Every night it enters torpor: it lowers its body temperature and metabolism almost to a standstill, because it could not survive the night at the energy cost of its daytime rate.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Woodland, coastal scrub, gardens and flowering areas throughout Cuba and the Isla de la Juventud

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

17 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellisuga_helenae

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.