Tiny, with long wings and bill. Dusky below with a bright red throat, black mask, and green crown.
Female is golden-green above and whitish below, lacking male's ruby throat.
Tiny bird with emerald green back and brilliant red throat. The throat is iridescent and looks black or dark red, then lights up when viewed at the correct angle.
Expert flier that can stop instantly, hover, and adjust its position up, down, or backwards with exquisite control.
In some light the throat of the adult male can appear black.
Hovers with pinpoint precision, beating wings so fast they're almost invisible. Drinks nectar by probing flowers with long, thin bill.
Feeds on a variety of flowering plants. Tiny, with long wings and bill. Mostly white below, with buffy flanks, a dusky mask, and green upperparts.
Upperparts bright metallic green, and short tail is black and forked.
Eats insects in addition to nectar, often plucking them from spiderwebs or taking them from a sapsucker's sap wells.
Upperparts bright metallic green, and short tail is mostly black with white tips to the outer feathers.
Immature males have some red feathers on the throat.
Nestlings have shorter bills than adults. Nest is thimble-sized, made with spiderweb that stretches as the young birds grow.
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The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a small hummingbird with a slender, slightly downcurved bill and fairly short wings that don’t reach all the way to the tail when the bird is sitting.
Same size as a Black-chinned Hummingbird
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