What species is the smallest living bird in the world? What circumstances limit the bird size from the bottom?
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1There are definitely two questions here, and the question in the title and first part of the body should really be flagged for closure - it's easily googled - but the second is interesting and on-scope. Do you think you could edit it to the second part only? – arboviral May 31 '18 at 11:09
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1this paper may interest you. minimum size may be related to maintaining their body temprature. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/282753 – John May 31 '18 at 16:14
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Related posts: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/21541, https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/66659 – vkehayas Jun 01 '18 at 09:58
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The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird.
I think the minimum size is only limited by the size of organs. I mean that certain organs need to have a minimum size to maintain their function in the organism.
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It is unclear to me how the "Wall effect" that you link under "organism" is relevant to your point. Is that an error? – vkehayas May 31 '18 at 13:03
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The answered was probably thinking of something more like this, http://www.mrothery.co.uk/exchange/allkeynotesas.htm, but that is more of a limit on maximum size rather than minimum size. – Tyler S. Loeper May 31 '18 at 13:23
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@vkehayas yeah it is not much related to this topic. I quite misuse that it. – L.Diago May 31 '18 at 13:37
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1@L.Diago maybe update the link to reference Wikipedia instead, which not only gives the facts listed in your link, but also has pictures of them? – Doktor J May 31 '18 at 18:59
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I understand guys but that link was from guinessworldrecords you know. I thought that it will fit better with the smallest bird in the world. :) – L.Diago May 31 '18 at 19:15
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