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The black-chinned hummingbird is 8.25 cm (3.25 in) long. Adults are metallic green above and white below with green flanks. Their bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has a black face and chin, a glossy purple gorget, and a dark forked tail. The female has a dark rounded tail with white tips and no throat patch.
Xantus's hummingbird is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long. Males weigh an average of 3.5 g (0.12 oz) and females 3.4 g (0.12 oz). Their bills are straight and about 1.7 cm (0.67 in) long; males' are red with a black tip. Females' maxilla is black with a pinkish base and their mandible pinkish red with a black tip.
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 backwards. Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (A) Rivoli's hummingbird, Eugenes fulgens (A) Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris; Black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri
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 backwards. Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris (R) Black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri; Anna's hummingbird, Calypte anna; Costa's hummingbird, Calypte costae
White-tailed hummingbird: Eupherusa poliocerca Elliot, DG, 1871: 308 Oaxaca hummingbird: Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley, JS & Orr, 1964: 309 Stripe-tailed hummingbird: Eupherusa eximia (Delattre, 1843) 310 Black-bellied hummingbird: Eupherusa nigriventris Lawrence, 1868: 311 Scaly-breasted hummingbird: Phaeochroa cuvierii (Delattre & Bourcier ...
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 backwards. Black-chinned hummingbird. Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (*) Rivoli's hummingbird, Eugenes fulgens (*) Blue-throated mountain-gem, Lampornis clemenciae (*)
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 backwards. Thirteen species of hummingbird have been recorded in Georgia. Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (P)
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 backwards. six species have been recorded in Connecticut. Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (R) Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris; Black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri (R)