The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Eastern North America for the summer to breed. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding. The species, the smallest bird that breeds in the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada, is named after a distinctive red throat patch exhibited by adult males. Slight subject blur is acknowledged. The sapphire-throated hummingbird (Lepidopyga coeruleogularis) is a shiny metallic-green hummingbird found in Panama, Colombia, and more recently Costa Rica. A juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) hovering. Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird. It is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae, and one of three species in the genus Lepidopyga. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Studies of hummingbird metabolism address how a migrating ruby-throated hummingbird can cross 800 km (500 mi) of the Gulf of Mexico on a nonstop flight. Ruby-throated hummingbird. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Jump to navigation Jump to search.
Adults are metallic green above and grayish white below, with near-black wings. This hummingbird, like other long-distance migrating birds, stores fat as a fuel reserve augmenting its weight by as much as 100%, then enabling metabolic fuel for flying over open water. Another male Ruby-throated hummingbird. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are tiny colorful birds that breed in North America. Just better. High resolution displays remarkable plumage detail, particularly around its namesake feathers. Subject matches the article's description of the species. This particular image is used in the Hummingbird article to demonstrate the use of nectar feeders to attract the birds.
Females and juveniles, however, do not have such a patch. It is by far the most common hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi River … The adult male has a gorget (throat patch) of iridescent ruby red bordered narrowly with velvety black on the upper margin and a forked black tail with a faint violet sheen.
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A male Ruby-throated hummingbird.