Nanocronus aureoplumus
With the disappearance of hummingbirds in the end-Telogene mass extinction 65 million years hence, all modern groups of pollinating birds had gone extinct going into the Proximozoic era. But by the latter half of the Tularean period, 100 million years hence new pollinating birds had evolved from the generalist species that survived.
The golden gorrion is descended from modern sparrows. It has co-evolved with two species of tropical tree, which bear distinctively curved flowers no other species can pollinate. Gorriones are nectarivorous, feeding on the nectar of the flowers they pollinate. They are not able to hover in the air as efficiently as hummingbirds, so they usually perch to feed. Male gorriones have a pair of racket-plume feathers on the tail.
