![]() ![]() Rare (mainly October–March) in the Southeast and southern California. Migration: mainly late February–early May, late June–September. Common (March–July) in open woodlands and parks. Immature males make species-specific dives without the sound effects.īreeding: northwestern North America. Adult male’s wing buzz often draws attention stuttering ch-ch-ch-ch-chi at pullout of dive is diagnostic. Alarm call: a slightly squeaky buzz, tssiur or tsirr, and squeaky chippering in interactions. VoiceĬall: a fairly hard ticking or clicking tik or chik, often doubled or trebled, ch-tik or ch-ti-tik. Females of resident southern California subspecies of Allen’s have paler and strongly green-mottled flanks, unlike the rufous. ![]() I was delighted that my Rufous Hummingbird returned for. I hear his steady chirping when I am refilling his feeders. watching in all directions for predators. Because he was a full-grown adult when he first arrived in 2004, he is at least seven years old. Male Allen’s display dives are U-shaped, not J-shaped, and can be given by immatures in fall and winter. My Rufous Hummingbird returned early on August 1, 2009, for the sixth consecutive year. Adult male Allen’s has green back (like very small percentage of Rufous). Immature female: resembles adult female but upperparts fresher in fall, with fine buff tips rectrices average broader throat evenly flecked and with no (rarely a few) red spots.įemale and immature Allen’s hummingbird safely distinguished only in the hand by narrower outer rectrices relative to age and sex. Complete molt in winter produces plumage like adult male. Rectrices average narrower and with more rufous at bases, and white tips to outer rectrices narrower. Immature male: resembles adult female but upperparts fresher in fall, with fine buff tips throat usually flecked fairly heavily, and with red spots. Adult female: throat whitish with lines of bronzy-green flecks strongest at corners, and typically a central splotch of red. Adult male: flame orange gorget rufous back often has some green spotting, can be solidly green. Length 3.2–3.7" bill 15–19 mm.Īdult males often detected by wing buzz, which, like other Selasphorus, is produced only in direct flight, not when hovering. Note that all except (most) adult male Rufous are rarely separable in the field from Allen’s Hummingbird, so many observations are best termed “rufous/Allen’s.” In dive display (also given in migration, and by immatures) male climbs to a start point, then dives with a slanted J-form trajectory, typically followed by a short, horizontal fluttering flight before climbing to repeat the dive. This common summer hummingbird of the Northwest is the western species most often found in the East (in fall and winter). ![]()
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