It's a BIRD?

[ronjhall]

It\'s a BIRD?

I've been sorting through pictures that we took last summer while on vacation. A couple of them were taken one evening while setting on our friends patio. Something started to fly around us and into a Petunia flower box. At first it looked like a large moth. But after watching it for a while we figured it must be a young Humming Bird. I was able to get a couple of pictures before it flew away. It's body was about ¾" long and it's beak looked like it was almost the same length.
Do the pictures show a bird or insect? With all the different vocations and hobbyist on TBN. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif I figured someone would be able to identify what creature is in the picture. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

 

[ronjhall]

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Oops!
Hit enter before I posted the picture. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

 

[ronjhall]

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Here is a couple of close ups. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

 

[Bird]

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In my uneducated opinion, it ain't a bird. Never seen one with antenna./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I'll say it's a moth, but as for what variety, no idea./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[CSAW]

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I have to vote bug, moth, etc.

 

[GlueGuy]

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I'll go along with Bird. It is definitely not a bird; it has no tail. The thorax looks like some kind of moth, but I have no idea what kind. I'll forward this to a friend that is into entimology.

 

[ronjhall]

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Bird
I don't know it those are antenna or just the edge of a flower. The creature did have a beak and was going from flower to flower like a Humming Bird. Sure wish I could have gotten more pictures from a different angle.

 

[cp1969]

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Looks to me like it has four wings. I thought birds only had two.

 

[TresCrows]

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It is a moth, a similar moth, though not as large, is a frequent visitor of gardens in the south in the late evening. The critter you have here clearly has a segmented body and well developed thorax, four wings and antena and I can see the compound eye. There are hummingbirds in this size range but this picture is of a moth. Amazing how evolution can produce such a similar architecture in two such such creatures, an insect and a hummingbird, that have such distant relationships in the tree of life.
J

 

[ronjhall]

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GlueGuy

<font color=blue>entimology</font color=blue>

Another word to add to my TBN Vocabulary. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif

/w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif My spell checker says entomology. But I don't trust it. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Thanks I would like to know what it is.
I know what the moth that comes from a Tomato Worm looks like. That was my first thought when I saw it. But everyone tried to direct me toward the Humming Bird.
My friends place is North East of Toronto.