Compare And Contrast Hawk And Humming Bird

The adaptive traits common to more on species can be found in birds and this particular essay I will focus on the hummingbird and the hawk, both have wings, beaks and can fly, however they both look totally different from each other as the hawk. The hawk is big in size and the humming bird is quite smaller in statue and also the hawk possess a beak that’s razor sharp which tears flesh off small animals it consumes while the hummingbird’s beak is quite long and thin, this helps the bird to dip into flowers and sip nectar which it used for food. One would wonder why two species of birds have so many differences.
The traits that make this adaptation have to do with the different environments, different types of food, specific adaptation in the physical features and why they are more beneficial than the others. The adaptation traits are developed to carry out particular functions, which allows organism to thrive in their own environment. A trait may prove to be useful for a certain species in its environment but the same trait may not be useful for another species in a different environment. Adaptation of traits and evolution goes hand in hand because the populations of all plants, living organism and animals have been changing over time during each generation and scientists call this process …show more content…
The hawk and the humming bird are divergent. The significance of adaptive radiation is that it indicated the existence of divergent evolution, which is based on the modification of homologous structures over time (Josephs, 2011). Structures and physiological processes can be similar in organisms, which are not closely phylogenetically related and they may show similar adaptations to perform the same function. These are referred to as