Hummingbird Sanctuary - Urubamba, Peru

Hummingbirds zip in to the feeders at a small hummingbird sanctuary (Santuario de Colibríes) in Urubamba, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, about an hour and a half by road from Cusco in the Peruvian Andes.

Giant hummingbirds, sword-billed hummingbirds and shining sunbeams can all visit the same feeders here, along with sparkling violetears and black-tailed trainbearers. Peru has 124 kinds of hummingbirds, 14 of them found nowhere else.

The valley follows the Urubamba River, known in Quechua as Willkamayu, "the sacred river." It was the Incas' most important maize-growing area, and ruins like Pisac and Ollantaytambo line its slopes.

Did You Know? The giant hummingbird is the largest hummingbird in the world, about 9 inches (23 cm) long, and it beats its wings only about 15 times a second, slow for a hummingbird.

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