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Hummingbirds are fascinating, to an extent far disproportionate to their size. Darting from flower to flower, sunlight flashing on their brightly colored throats and crowns, hummingbirds are widely known as the jewels of the bird world. It's hard to believe, but very true: all that dazzling color is produced by feather structure, and not by pigment. More than 340 species of hummingbirds are known today, but all of them occur only in the Americas.