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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 Canada and other parts of Eastern North America for the summer to breed. It is the most common hummingbird in eastern North America, having population estimates of about 35 ...
When migration season begins, Ruby-throated hummingbirds are still abundant throughout the eastern half of the U.S., according to the Audubon Society's online bird migration explorer tool. "By ...
The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species of hummingbirds that breeds in the eastern U.S. and Iowa, Thomas said. They are just one of about 350 known species of hummingbirds in North and ...
Ruby-throated hummingbird. Order: Apodiformes Family: Trochilidae. Hummingbirds are small birds capable of hovering in mid-air due to the rapid flapping of their wings. They are the only birds that can fly backward
A male ruby-throated hummingbird can beat their wings at a rate of more than 50 times per second. We are about to enter peak ruby-throated hummingbird migration. My feeders still have hummingbirds ...
The genus Archilochus was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach with the black-chinned hummingbird as the type species. [1] [2] The name Archilochus is that of a Greek lyric poet from the island of Paros who lived around 650 BC. [3] Two species are placed in the genus. [4]
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