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> Imagine if actually there were amphibian birds and mammal birds and insect birds flying all around Bats (mammal) Mosquitoes (amphibian) Any number of flyin

• yesenadam 5y ago
  The paragraph continues > ...and they all looked pretty much the same – feathers, beaks, little claw feet, the lot. You had to be a real bird expert to be able to tell an insect bird from a mammal bird
  • ajuc 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth#/media/File:Macroglossum_stellatarum01(js).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth#/media/F... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth I've seen this insect in person and I was persuaded it was a hummingbird that somehow got to Poland. It's huge for an insect, feeds of flowers hovering in place just like a hummingbird does, nothing like an usual flying insect. It has texture that look like feathers and when it feeds it often looks like he has a long straight beak. Only on photos or very up-close you can recognize some things don't match. We argued for a few hours what it was until we found it's actually an insect.
• divbzero 5y ago
  Mosquitoes are insects too. The closest to a flying amphibian might be a flying frog [1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_frog