Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

by Lyuba Filatova

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Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

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Lyuba Filatova

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This photo of Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on Butterfly Bush was taken in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The reddish Buddleias or Butterfly Bushes strongly attract hummingbirds. Hummingbird, generally arrives on the Cape and Islands during the third week in April. By early May, they will have fully returned from their Central American wintering grounds and will be saturating suburbia once again. Everything about hummingbirds is extreme – their extremely high metabolism, extremely small body size, extreme maneuverability, extremely long over-water migration across the Gulf of Mexico, and their extremely pugnacious personality. Weighing in at a whopping tenth of an ounce, a hummingbird fears nothing and no one. You can seen them chasing everything from hawks to kingfishers for reasons known only to them. It is suspected they are just putting the rest of the bird world on notice that they can literally fly circles around them.
Massachusetts' smallest breeding bird is also one of the most beautiful. The male ruby-throated hummingbird is unmistakable, with glossy green feathers above and a stunning red gorget that glitters like its namesake. Even the females are easily identified, for this species is the only hummingbird that commonly appears in Massachusetts.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are favorites of backyard birders, and hummingbird feeders are a popular addition to backyard ecosystems.

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