Meet The Tiniest Bird In The World – The Bee Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are familiar visitors to gardens during spring and summer, hovering in midair, dipping their long, tapered bills deep into the hearts of flowers.

This petite hummingbird, with its beautiful bright plumage, is a bird-watcher's dream (if you can set your binoculars to the right setting). The teeny tiny bird is about the size of — you guessed it — a large bee, weighing one-fifteenth of an ounce, or less than a dime. The little bird shares the island with its larger cousin, the Cuban emerald, which is over two and a half times the bee hummingbird's size.