Hummingbird Tattoos

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Among the most popular tattoos for ladies is the hummingbird. Well who doesn’t love hummingbirds? They are so cute and so small, yet so hardworking in their daily task of searching for food. They are among the smallest living bird in the world and they can flap their wings up to 90 times per second! In-flight their heart-beat has been recorded to beat up to 1260 beats per minute and has the highest burning metabolism in all of the animal kingdom.

Not bad for the small creatures huh?

In ancient culture especially among the Aztecs, the hummingbird represents vigor, energy, and propensity for work. Hummingbird talismans were prized as drawing sexual potency, energy, vigor, and skill at arms and warfare to the wearer. Even one of the mysterious Nazca lines in Peru depict the a hummingbird, that is the biggest “drawing” of a hummingbird.

In modern and popular culture, there are no known strong meaning attach to the hummingbird. However based on their physical ability and behaviour, a hummingbird can symbolise someone who is hardworking and yet still enjoy life, based on the colors that is displayed from their feathers.

There are more than 300 bird species within the hummingbird families all with their own colors and thus, tattoos depicting them tend to be colorful, fresh and vibrant.

As hummingbird like to suck the nectars from flowers, usually tattoos design will incorporate flowers with the hummingbird, adding some floral decoration to the already-beautiful hummingbird tattoos.

Here are some hummingbird tattoos design and tattoos pictures if you would like to get one;