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Trochilidae
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HummingbirdHummingbirds are the roughly 320 species of the family Trochilidae, small New World birds that hover in place by beating their wings dozens of times a second and that live on a diet of nectar and tiny arthropods. Their metabolism is among the highest of any ve…