ID Please
Aug 3, 2018 12:33:29 #
Shot today in SE Houston, TX
Help with ID Please
Thanks
Help with ID Please
Thanks
Aug 3, 2018 12:46:52 #
Aug 3, 2018 12:51:38 #
davyboy wrote:
Hummingbird!
I know it's a HB but which one?
thanks for looking
Aug 3, 2018 13:01:35 #
madclownrme
Loc: Southwest Louisiana
Maybe a female ruby throated hummingbird....but just a guess really
Aug 3, 2018 13:09:43 #
Female Rufous Humming Bird - The dark dots on her throat makes it definite.
Aug 3, 2018 13:14:57 #
I believe what you have there is an immature male Ruby Throated Hummingbird. Should start showing flecks of red soon among those chin spots.
Aug 3, 2018 13:43:55 #
Eric2018
Loc: Los Angeles, CA, USA
It's very hard to distinguish a juvenile male Ruby Throated from a juvenile male Rufous or a female Rufous. But I agree it's probably one of those three.
Aug 3, 2018 15:56:18 #
Where was this taken? All species of hummers do not live everywhere. Example: where I live we have 5 species that have normal living or wintering range within 50 miles and two other species that pass through on migration.
Aug 3, 2018 16:57:00 #
Eric2018
Loc: Los Angeles, CA, USA
robertjerl wrote:
Where was this taken? All species of hummers do not live everywhere. Example: where I live we have 5 species that have normal living or wintering range within 50 miles and two other species that pass through on migration.
According to the OP, it was "Shot today in SE Houston, TX."
I read some on both Ruby Throated and Rufous, and based on migratory patterns, I'd guess the one in Houston is a female or juvenile Ruby Throated, probably not a Rufous.
Aug 3, 2018 17:58:19 #
robertjerl wrote:
Where was this taken? All species of hummers do not live everywhere. Example: where I live we have 5 species that have normal living or wintering range within 50 miles and two other species that pass through on migration.
Please read the my listing.
Aug 3, 2018 19:27:02 #
GoldwingerTX wrote:
Shot today in SE Houston, TX
Help with ID Please
Thanks
Help with ID Please
Thanks
Nice shot, Goldwinger
Aug 3, 2018 22:33:23 #
Ruby throats rarely are found west of the Mississippi. Chances are it's a female Rufous.
Aug 3, 2018 22:58:02 #
gregoryd45 wrote:
Nice shot, Goldwinger
Thanks for looking and the nice reply.
C M
Aug 4, 2018 12:24:48 #
The colors are not very clean on this image Goldwinger TX.
If the shot was taken in winter, I would only guess for a Broad Tail hummingbird - by the green top and gray bottom.
They might be spending winter in Houston. In summer they live high in the mountains.
If the shot was taken in winter, I would only guess for a Broad Tail hummingbird - by the green top and gray bottom.
They might be spending winter in Houston. In summer they live high in the mountains.
Aug 4, 2018 13:48:29 #
GoldwingerTX wrote:
Please read the my listing.
Opps! Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa
Read and post before breakfast and morning coffee (retired I stay up reading until 2 or 3 and sleep late).
Checked Nat Geo's bird book and on line Cornell's All About Birds.
You have 4 types of hummers that live all year or winter around Houston:
Ruby Throated, Black Chinned, Buff Bellied, Rufus
You could have others migrating, etc or gone feral because someone turned some loose. I mean who would expect the Eurasian Collared Dove to go from some guy's garden in the Bahamas in the 1970s to being very common from SW Canada to the Yucatan and still spreading. Here in So Calif we have several types of parrots, parakeets etc all over the place because Pet Stores sold them, people let them loose and they are now present in flocks
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