Texas
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Archilochus alexandri
(L 3.75" WS 4.75" WT 0.12 oz)
Estero Llano
Grande St Pk
19Apr2013
Very adaptable...in deserts and
mountain forests ...west U.S. &
Mexico.
flash photos
If fat geese were selling for
10 cents a pound, I couldn't
buy a hummingbird.
   (Unknown)
Arcchilochus is after a Thracian
poet of the 6th Cent. BC.
Boyd Alexander
© William W.
H. Gunn
Macaulay
Library
© Cornell
Ornithology