Girls Night Out
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Girls Night Out
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
Description
A female Broad-Tailed Hummer bellies up to the bar for a cool Colorado morning sip. Here are some identification tips to help sort out the species. Male and female broad-tailed hummingbirds have iridescent green backs and crowns and a white breast. The male has a gorget or throat patch that shines with a brilliant pink-red iridescence and a broad, predominantly black tail accented with varying amounts of green, rufous, and occasionally white.
This is the common breeding hummer of the Rocky Mountains. The male is more easily identified by a distinctive shrill metallic wing whistling than by its wider rounded tail and rose-colored throat. No other western hummingbird has a green crown and tail plus a solid red throat.
Hummingbirds are New World birds belonging to the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds with most species measuring in the 3 to 5 inch range and some weighing less than a penny.
As they fly, they create a humming sound by their flapping their wings at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at these rapid wing-flapping rates, typically around 50 times per second, allowing them also to fly at speeds exceeding 34 miles per hour and backwards.
Image copyright 2016 Jon Burch Photography all rights reserved.
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June 15th, 2016
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