Sitting at the very top of the tree for a long period of time, singing occasionally. Very windy, 70 degrees F. Sunny.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Neornithes
Infraclass: Neognathae
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Species: Selasphorus platycercus
Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts, Apodidae, the tree swifts, Hemiprocnidae, and the hummingbirds, Trochilidae. In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this order is raised to a superorder Apodimorphae in which hummingbirds are separated as a new order, Trochiliformes, but this has been refuted by subsequent research. With nearly 450 species identified to date, they are the most diverse order of birds after the passerines.
