TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

In-flight Ruby-throated Hummingbird Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird- Archilochus colubris Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird- Archilochus colubris, Order Apodiformes-Family Trochilidae-Subfamily Trochilinae. Here a Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird is caught hovering. After setting up an array of hummingbird feeders in our rural Oxford, Ohio backyard, each August and early September day we get to witness the interactions of many hummers drinking, resting and frantically chasing one another. It's been fantastic! These hummers are the only hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America. They winter in Central America! Photo: September 5, 2005, Canon EOS-1D Mark II camera with 500 f/4.0 IS L lens More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird_dtl.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.