Vervain Hummingbird

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Vervain Hummingbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Mellisuga
Species: M. minima
Binomial name
Mellisuga minima
Linnaeus, 1758

The Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. The Vervain hummingbird builds the second smallest nest of all birds, about the size of half a walnut shell (the bee hummingbird builds the smallest nest).

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