No doubt hummingbirds are familiar to everyone in the world. Someone saw her in television programs, and some of us just stumbled upon a small miracle bird in a magazine about nature. By the way, in the framework of the school curriculum in our country, this bird is studied as a kind of mysterious phenomenon of life that lives on the territory of the hot continents of the planet: South and North America, on the island of Cuba. Based on all this, it can be stated unequivocally that the bird is known everywhere, from small to large. Several years ago, information appeared in the press and on social networks that a hummingbird was seen in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia. Is this so and how reliable is the fact of the habitat of a tropical winged individual on the territory of our country, we will try to understand the framework of today's material.
A few words about the bird
Hummingbirds are the smallest bird the world has ever seen. Its dimensions do not exceed 5 cm, and the flight very much resembles a butterfly fluttering. It is not at all easy to distinguish a "little one" from a butterfly to an ignorant person, therefore, when the news about hummingbird dwelling in the Krasnodar Territory leaked to the masses, many skeptics reacted to it very predictably: they did not believe it. But there is one more worthy explanation for such a reaction: hummingbirds live in tropical climatic zones, which are famous for their hot temperatures, both in the daytime and during the night almost constantly. Krasnodar can boast of high rates on a thermometer for only a few months a year.
Butterfly resemblance
Hummingbird is a bird, but it does not feed on worms at all, although small larvae are not alien to it. Basically, this baby drinks nectar from flowers, which makes her even more like butterflies. By the way, it does not land on the flower, but regales itself with nectar thanks to its long beak resembling the proboscis of a mosquito. It literally hangs in space, while creating the impression of absolute statics, although the wings do not stop their furious flies for a second. Brazhnik is a large-sized butterfly that eats floral nectar in the same way as hummingbirds. In the Krasnodar Territory, such species of giant butterflies have been living for a long time and were noticed precisely at the time when the news of the appearance of hummingbirds in the south of Russia spread. Although skeptics are sure that this is a hawk, and not a tropical bird.
Where does the wind blow from?
And now it's time to figure out the main question of the article, namely to find out: "Are hummingbirds found in the Krasnodar Territory?" By the way, almost 50 years ago hummingbirds (ocherous) were seen in Chukotka and on the islands of Ratmanov and Wrangel. To begin with, it is worth talking about cases that served as the cause of heated debate related to this issue:
- In 2011, a resident of the South of Russia recorded a short video on his mobile phone, where he allegedly captured a hummingbird collecting nectar from a flower. He signed the post on the social network: "Hummingbird in the Krasnodar Territory." However, the video clearly shows that the hero of his video is none other than the aforementioned Brazhnik butterfly. Of course, many realized that the author only wanted to attract potential users to increase views on their channel, and there’s no reason to even talk about the veracity of the name.
- The second time, already in 2015, another man put up a similar video, but he really had a creature very similar to a hummingbird. It was after this post that doubts arose about the veracity of the statement. Many experts said that there are hummingbirds adapted to a cool climate and that, they say, they are a little larger than a five-centimeter individual. They assured the public that a giant 20 cm in size could easily inhabit the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, referring to ocher individuals. However, scientists flatly rejected all these unconfirmed facts, inserting their categorical "no" into the discussion.
