Species: Archilochus alexandri

Black-chinned Hummingbird
Species

    This is a small, slender hummingbird with a straight, black bill. Adult males have a dull metallic bronze-green back and a black chin and upper throat with a metallic violet iridescence on the lower throat. The males central pair of tail feathers are green whereas the others are black (often with a purplish sheen). Adult females have a dull metallic bronze-green back, and their chin, upper throat, and sides of throat are creamy and often streaked or spotted with dusky. Females breast and most of belly are dull white. Females tail is greenish or blackish, with the 3 outer pairs of feathers broadly tipped with white. Young birds resemble adult females but have buffy emarginations at the tips of the head and body feathers (these disappear through wear). Length is about 3.75 inches (7.5-9 cm).

    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Apodiformes

    Family

    Trochilidae

    Genus

    Archilochus

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Colibri à gorge noire - Colibrí Barba Negra
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Other Birds
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Apodiformes - Trochilidae - Archilochus - Appears to constitute a superspecies with A. COLUBRIS (AOU 1998).

    This is a small, slender hummingbird with a straight, black bill. Adult males have a dull metallic bronze-green back and a black chin and upper throat with a metallic violet iridescence on the lower throat. The males central pair of tail feathers are green whereas the others are black (often with a purplish sheen). Adult females have a dull metallic bronze-green back, and their chin, upper throat, and sides of throat are creamy and often streaked or spotted with dusky. Females breast and most of belly are dull white. Females tail is greenish or blackish, with the 3 outer pairs of feathers broadly tipped with white. Young birds resemble adult females but have buffy emarginations at the tips of the head and body feathers (these disappear through wear). Length is about 3.75 inches (7.5-9 cm).

    Short General Description
    A hummingbird.
    Migration
    false - false - true - Banding studies in southern Arizona indicate that many individuals follow the same migration path in successive years.
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Visits flowers and feeds on nectar and insects. Also forages by darting out from a perch to catch insects in the air.
    Reproduction Comments
    Nesting begins as early as late March or early April and may extend through August. Clutch size is usually 2. Incubation, by the female lasts 13-16 days. Young are tended by the female, leave the nest in about 3 weeks, and are fed by the female for several days after fledging. Females may begin a second nesting before the young of the first nesting are fully independent (Johnsgard 1983).
    Ecology Comments
    Primarily solitary except for females and young during the nesting season.
    Length
    10
    Weight
    4
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1996-12-02
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-12-02
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    Breeding range extends from southwestern British Columbia, Washington, central Idaho, and northwestern Montana south to northern Baja California, northern Sonora, northwestern Chihuahua, northern Coahuila, and southern Texas, and east to western Wyoming, eastern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, and central Texas. Winter range extends from northern Mexico and southern Texas (casual) south to southern Baja California and southern Mexico mainland, casually to Louisiana and Florida.
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