![]() Ruby-throated Hummingbirds’ flight is extremely swift, and the rapid motions of its wings in passing back and forth from one cluster of flowers to another causes a humming or buzzing sound, from which the numerous members of this family derive their name of hummingbirds. ![]() The male birds have a patch of red feathers on their throats, from which the species derives its name. Both male and female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have relatively short tails and beaks and lack any crest of feathers on their heads. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have iridescent green feathers on their backs and white feathers on their bellies. It usually goes south again about the latter part of September, the males preceding the females, I believe, in both migrations. It usually arrives along our southern border in the latter part of March, rarely reaching the more northern States before the middle of May. The majority of these birds migrate south, though, spending the winter in some of the Caribbean islands, while others pass through eastern Mexico into Central America. ![]() It is only a summer visitor in Canada and throughout the greater part of its range in the United States, excepting the southern portions of the Florida peninsula, where it winters to some extent. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is the sole representative of the hummingbird family in eastern North America. ![]()
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