La Palabra Del Día "colibrí"
colibrí ( koh-lee-BREE )
(noun) hummingbird
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Examples:
1: ¡Mira! ¡Hay un colibrí en el jardín!
Look! There's a hummingbird in the garden!
2: Mi mamá hizo un bebedero para los colibríes.
My mom made a feeder for the hummingbirds.
Notes
In Spanish, a hummingbird can also be called a "picaflor" or a "chupaflor."
14 Answers
El colibrí abeja es el pájaro más pequeño del mundo. Crecen a 5-6 centímetros de largo y pesan 1.6-2 gramos.
The bee hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world. They grow to 5-6 centimetres long and weigh 1.6-2 grams.
Según el enciclipedia libre los calibríes tienen otros nombres en español tal como: quindes, tucusitos, picaflores, chupamirtos, chuparrosas. Me gustan algunos de estos nombres porque son muy descriptivos. Por ejemplo: picaflores significa una cosa que pica flores y chuparrosa significa algo que chupa rosas. Tambien se llaman zumbadores, pájaros moscas y pájaros mosquitos.
According to the free encyclopedia, hummingbirds have other names in Spanish such as quindes, tucusitos, picaflores, chupamirtos, y chuparosas. I like some of these names because they are very descriptive. For example: picafloras means a thing that pecks at flowers and chuparosas means something that sucks roses. They are also called buzzers/hummers/whizzers, fly birds and mosquito birds.
Los colibríes eran ubicuos en Cuenca cuando mi esposo y yo estábamos allí. Se cernían en el comedero afuera de nuestra ventana por la mañana, la mediodía y la tarde.
Hummingbirds were ubiquitous in Cuenca when my husband and I were there. They hovered at the feeder outside our window morning, noon, and evening.
(I have some photos we took, but I don't have them uploaded to a site from which I can post them. The pictured bird is one that is native to Ecuador.)
En nuestro país cuando algo está muy colorido se dice: tiene de mil colores como un colibrí.
In our country when something is very colorful it is said: it has a thousand colors like a hummingbird.
Hace mucho mi esposa me preguntó si debías comprar un comedero para los colibrís. Le dije que les iba a cultivar comederos naturales, lo que hice, y ahora nos divierten teniendo batallas para nuestro jardín.
A long time ago my wife asked me if we ought to buy a hummingbird feeder. I told her that I would cultivate natural feeders for them, which I did, and now they entertain us having battles for our garden.
Hace muchos años, solíamos colgar un contenedor de agua con azúcar de la rama de un árbol para atraer los colibrís. ¡Qué lindos!
Years ago, we used to hang a container of sugar water from the branch of a tree to attract the hummingbirds. Very pretty!
Me gustaría tener el poder y la tenacidad de un colibri.
Y tal vez ser tan hermoso como un colibrí.
I would like to have the power and tenacity of a hummingbird.
And maybe be as beautiful as a hummingbird.
El Colibrí Calliope viaja miles de millas a sus zonas de cría en América del Norte y Canadá.
The Calliope Hummingbird travels thousands of miles to it's breeding grounds in North america and Canada.
The fast rate at which the hummingbird flaps it's wings makes the humming sound.
La tarifa rápido en el cuál el colibrí bate su alas hace el sonido de tarareo.
Los fotógrafos necesitan técnicas especiales para sacar fotos de los colibríes.
Photographers need special techniques to take photos of hummingbirds.
Thanks AnnRon for being the inspiration for this project. 
En la actualidad hay más aviones espías y bombaderos rusos que están volando que colibríes en Alaska.
Currently there are more Russian spy planes and bombers flying in Alaska than hummingbirds.
Hummingbirds are a bird species indigenous to the New World. Los colibríes son una especie de ave indígena del nuevo mundo.
La variedad de las especies de colibríes es increíble.
The variety of the hummingbird species is incredible.
Planta de algodoncillo atra ambos los colibrís y las mariposas monarca.
Milkweed plant attracts both hummingbirds and Monarch butterflies.
