Hummingbirds
The smallest birds, and found only in the Americas. In the east there is only one, the Ruby-throated, and the ones at garden flowers in late summer are fuelling up for the trip south; the west has several, and some stay all winter.
A Ruby-throated Hummingbird weighs about three grams and flies across the Gulf of Mexico non-stop, five hundred miles of open water, in a single night. Before it goes it nearly doubles its weight in fat.
- Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin
- Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
- Rufous or Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sp.
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