Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Calliope hummingbird

Index Calliope hummingbird

The calliope hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) is a very small hummingbird native to the United States and Canada and, during winter, Central America. [1]

55 relations: Acoustics, Alberta, Alder, Allen's hummingbird, Aquilegia, Arizona, Belize, Bird migration, Bird ringing, Bird vocalization, British Columbia, Bumblebee hummingbird, California, Calliope, Canada, Central America, Chaparral, Colorado, Courtship display, Fort Tryon Park, Greek mythology, Guatemala, Haemanthus, Hawking (birds), Hummingbird, Insect, Ipomopsis, John Gould, Levitation, Mexico, Montana, Montane ecosystems, Muses, Nectar, New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut, New Mexico, New York City, North America, Pedicularis groenlandica, Penstemon, Pinophyta, Pollination, Rocky Mountains, Rufous hummingbird, Sapsucker, Selasphorus, Sonation, Spider, Thicket, ..., Tree line, United States, Washington (state), Willow, Wind tunnel. Expand index (5 more) »

Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Acoustics · See more »

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Alberta · See more »

Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Alder · See more »

Allen's hummingbird

Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) is a species of hummingbird.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Allen's hummingbird · See more »

Aquilegia

Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 60–70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals Puzey, J.R., Gerbode, S.J., Hodges, S.A., Kramer, E.M., Mahadevan, L. (2011) Evolution of Aquilegia spur length diversity through changes in cell anisotropy.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Aquilegia · See more »

Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Arizona · See more »

Belize

Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Belize · See more »

Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Bird migration · See more »

Bird ringing

Bird ringing or bird banding is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Bird ringing · See more »

Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Bird vocalization · See more »

British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and British Columbia · See more »

Bumblebee hummingbird

The bumblebee hummingbird (Atthis heloisa) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Bumblebee hummingbird · See more »

California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and California · See more »

Calliope

In Greek mythology, Calliope (Καλλιόπη, Kalliopē "beautiful-voiced") is the muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Calliope · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Canada · See more »

Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Central America · See more »

Chaparral

Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Chaparral · See more »

Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Colorado · See more »

Courtship display

A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal attempts to attract a mate and exhibit their desire to copulate.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Courtship display · See more »

Fort Tryon Park

Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Hudson Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Fort Tryon Park · See more »

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Greek mythology · See more »

Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Guatemala · See more »

Haemanthus

Haemanthus is a Southern African genus of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Haemanthus · See more »

Hawking (birds)

Hawking is a feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Hawking (birds) · See more »

Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Hummingbird · See more »

Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Insect · See more »

Ipomopsis

Ipomopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family, Polemoniaceae.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Ipomopsis · See more »

John Gould

John Gould FRS (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist and bird artist.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and John Gould · See more »

Levitation

Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is held aloft, without mechanical support, in a stable position.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Levitation · See more »

Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Mexico · See more »

Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Montana · See more »

Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Montane ecosystems · See more »

Muses

The Muses (/ˈmjuːzɪz/; Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, Moũsai) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Muses · See more »

Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Nectar · See more »

New Haven Register

The New Haven Register is a daily newspaper published in New Haven, Connecticut.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and New Haven Register · See more »

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and New Haven, Connecticut · See more »

New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and New Mexico · See more »

New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and New York City · See more »

North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and North America · See more »

Pedicularis groenlandica

Pedicularis groenlandica is a showy flowering plant in the broomrape family which is known by the common names elephant's head and elephanthead lousewort.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Pedicularis groenlandica · See more »

Penstemon

Penstemon, the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 250 species of flowering plants native mostly to the Nearctic, but with a few species also found in the North American portion of the Neotropics.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Penstemon · See more »

Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Pinophyta · See more »

Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, enabling later fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Pollination · See more »

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Rocky Mountains · See more »

Rufous hummingbird

The rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) is a small hummingbird, about long with a long, straight and slender bill.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Rufous hummingbird · See more »

Sapsucker

The sapsuckers are four species of North American woodpeckers in the genus Sphyrapicus.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Sapsucker · See more »

Selasphorus

Selasphorus is a genus of hummingbirds.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Selasphorus · See more »

Sonation

Sonation is the sound produced by birds, using mechanisms other than the syrinx.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Sonation · See more »

Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Spider · See more »

Thicket

A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Thicket · See more »

Tree line

The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Tree line · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and United States · See more »

Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Washington (state) · See more »

Willow

Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Willow · See more »

Wind tunnel

A wind tunnel is a tool used in aerodynamic research to study the effects of air moving past solid objects.

New!!: Calliope hummingbird and Wind tunnel · See more »

Redirects here:

Calliope Hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope, Stellula, Stellula calliope.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliope_hummingbird

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »