Long day. Here's a comforting thread of strange and wonderful hummingbirds.

There are a bunch of hummingbirds called Pufflegs and I couldn't be happier about it. This is a golden-breasted puffleg.

Both pics by Doug Greenberg (CC BY-NC 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/dagberg/ 

Sword-billed hummingbird. Sorry, no armor in the world can protect... your heart

Pic by ryanacandee (CC BY 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/31267353@N03/29885928946

Maybe you like hummingbirds so much that you wish they had even tinier hummingbirds as hats. If so, the Horned Sungem is for you https://www.flickr.com/photos/101563641@N03/32024962094

Spatulas: they're not just for pancakes. This is the Marvelous Spatuletail, endangered, from Peru, sporting a pair of gleaming yet functional tail-spatulas

Pic by David Cook (CC BY-NC 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kookr/3787908501

Giant Hummingbird. A large small friend.

Pic by Pablo Caceres Contreras (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/pablocaceres/6118047454

What's more intimidating to your foes than two tiny purple ear tufts that you can raise at will? Nothing, Brown Violetear. Nothing at all.

Pic by Steve Valasek (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_valasek/48135253317

hnnnnngh yes this is the Crimson Topaz, YES VERY GOOD

Pic by Allan Hopkins (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy1951/8283783077

Puffy legs AND weird tail thingers? Oh, you shouldn't have. Really. I can't possibly accept this. I'm overwhelmed.

Booted Racket-tail, Pic by Doug Greenberg (CC BY-NC 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/dagberg/40006930560/

And finally, the Shining Sunbeam, an earth-toned bird that carries a little backpack of sunbeams wherever it goes.

Pic by Doug Greenberg (CC BY-NC 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/dagberg/40736026585