Where are hummingbirds in China? Which province?

Hummingbirds are not distributed in all parts of China, and some large moths will be mistaken for hummingbirds when they feed on nectar during the day. There are hummingbird specimens in the herbarium of the School of Life Sciences of Beijing Normal University, which were brought to Fu Jen Catholic University by an American missionary in the early 20th century (later merged into Normal University), and all of them were stripped off with fakes. After staying in Chen Fang for nearly a hundred years, these specimens are well preserved.

Hummingbirds only live in America, from southern Canada and Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, including the West Indies. Black-headed northern hummingbirds are the most common species in the western United States and Canada. Only red-throated northern hummingbirds breed in eastern North America, but individual members of other kinds of hummingbirds can also be seen in eastern North America, sometimes vagrants from Cuba or the Bahamas.

Hummingbirds are too small to be preserved as fossils, and their evolutionary history remains a mystery. Most hummingbirds now live in Central and South America, and the hummingbird fossils 1 10,000 years ago were found in South America, so scientists think hummingbirds originated in the Pleistocene? .

However, in southern Germany, scientists discovered the oldest hummingbird fossil in the world, which has a history of more than 30 million years. So the ancestors of hummingbirds appeared as early as Oligocene.

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