In Arizona, I live in Sierra Vista, known as the hummingbird capital of the United States, where hummingbirds are a common sight. Imagine my surprise yesterday, as I was disposing of my morning coffee grounds on a neighboring farm plot, to see a gorgeous iridescent blue hummingbird just six feet away. (Of course, I had no camera). I stared at the bird for close to a minute as it sipped nectar while furiously flapping its wings in a dazzling show of strength and beauty. Hummingbirds in Rwanda? I did a quick internet search to learn that there are no hummingbirds in Rwanda, as hummingbirds are endemic only to the Americas. However, Africa and Asia have sunbirds which, to my untrained birding eye, look remarkably similar to America’s hummingbirds. See for yourself. Here is a photo that I found on the internet of a Rwandan sunbird not much different from the one that visited me yesterday. 
Sunbirds, like hummingbirds, have handsome, iridescent, colorful males and are slim, tiny, powerful birds with long, narrow beaks perfect for extracting nectar. Accordingly to Wikipedia, Rwanda is home to 26 species of sunbirds. Sunbirds are apparently so common in Rwanda that there is a collection of stamps dedicated to them. The one I saw resembles the sunbird on the top left below:
Ruminations from Rwanda 
They look pretty and resemble hummingbirds. Do you see any great sunsets/sunrises? Thanks Pat
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How wonderful Pat. A beautiful discovery. Reminds me about the time we were traveling to Laredo in Baja Mexico and we stopped off at a small restaurant on the side of the road and we saw what we thought was a humming bird but on closer inspection noticed it had more than two legs. When we got back to the states we discovered it was a sphinx moth. Now we see them in our garden frequently. I’m sure your going to make many new discoveries while in Rwanda. Thank you for sharing them with us.
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Rwanda must be the sunbird capital of the world. It’s a beautiful little bird.
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Wow, what a spectacular bird!
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This is a beautiful bird. I wonder how similar they are to the humming bird. I will also have to do some research. I saw a Magnificent Humming Bird today for the first time. Please keep up your journal—so interesting, Rosanna
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