Ruby-throated hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Archilochus colubris
- Class
- Bird
- Order
- Trochiliformes
- Family
- Hummingbird
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Tiny (under 10 cm)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Forest, Towns and farms
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- In flight its heart can beat well over 1,000 times a minute.
- Its wings beat about 50 times per second, and it can hover and even fly backwards.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q834843 · All animals · All entries