Female/immature rufous/Allen’s hummingbirds are slightly smaller ... and lack the whitish eye ring often shown by the broad-tailed; their uppertail coverts and tail base have more rufous ...

Violet Sabrewings. Fiery-throated Hummingbird. Ruby-throated hummingbird feeding on a zinnia. The White-necked jacobin. The White-throated Mountain-gem. A female broad-tailed hummingbird.

A male broad-tailed hummingbird climbs upward on the final leg of its U-shaped dive past a would-be mate. A team of Princeton biologists has discovered that these birds dazzle females with a ...

Rufous hummingbirds in particular are well-known for their peregrinations across the continent, and over several decades have ...

The male ruby-throated hummingbird does indeed have a striking red throat, though the female of the species does not. You would have to look quickly to see either, however, as these speedy little ...