Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
The rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) is a small hummingbird, about 8 cm (3 in) long with a long, straight and slender bill. These birds are known for their extraordinary flight skills, flying 3,200 kilometres (2,000 miles) during their migratory transits.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses ...
Rufous-booted racket-tail: Ocreatus addae (Bourcier, 1846) 181 Rufous-gaped hillstar: Urochroa bougueri (Bourcier, 1851) 182 Green-backed hillstar: Urochroa leucura Lawrence, 1864: 183 Purple-bibbed whitetip: Urosticte benjamini (Bourcier, 1851) 184 Rufous-vented whitetip: Urosticte ruficrissa Lawrence, 1864: 185 Velvet-browed brilliant
The following 8 pages use this file: Hummingbird; List of Apodiformes by population; Rufous hummingbird; Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders/2023/April; Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 April 10; Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 April 10b; Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April; Template:Did you know nominations ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
The genus Selasphorus was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate the rufous hummingbird which is now the type species. [2] [3] The name combines the Ancient Greek selas meaning "light" or "flame" with -phoros meaning "-carrying". [4] The genus contains the following nine species: [5]
They are relatively small (even compared to most other hummingbirds) and primarily iridescent green with white or rufous-buff leg-puffs ("boots"). The leg-puffs are more conspicuous in males, which also have a pair of dark bluish racket -shaped extensions to the tail.