Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
(L 3.75" WS 4.5" WT 0.12 oz)
North migration appears
timed to the bloom of flowers.
There are roughly one thousand
feathers on a Ruby-throated Humming-
bird to more than twenty-five
thousand for a Tundra Swan.
(Thor Hanson)
© BirdNote,
Bob Sundstrom
Archilochus was a 6th C.
Greek poet famous for
his wit and flouting of
convention; colubri is
Spanish for hummingbird.