New World Bird

species. Many North American ruby-throated hummingbirds migrate to Central America for the winter. The ancient Mayans believed that the hummingbird was the sun in disguise appearing in a hummingbird form to court a beautiful woman, who was the moon. Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun and war, is often depicted as a hummingbird or an eagle. His mother, Coatlicue, became pregnant with a ball of hummingbird feathers (the soul of a warrior).

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