Hummingbird Feeling Frisky 1 Photograph by Linda Brody

Hummingbird Feeling Frisky 1

by Linda Brody

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Title

Hummingbird Feeling Frisky 1

Artist

Linda Brody

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Allen's Hummingbird showing off it's wings while balancing on the end of a wintering berry bush branch. Deep saturated colors show as this was taken on a cloudy day.

Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) is a species of hummingbird. It is a small bird, with mature adults reaching only 3 to 3.5 inches in length. The male has a green back and forehead, with rust-colored rufous flanks, rump, and tail. The male's throat is also an iridescent orange-red.

The female and immature Allen's hummingbirds are similarly colored, but lack the iridescent throat patch, instead having a series of speckles on their throats. Females are mostly green, featuring rufous color only on the tail, which also has white tips.

Immature Allen's hummingbirds are so similar to the female Rufous hummingbird, the two are almost indistinguishable in the field. Both species' breeding seasons and ranges are common factors used to differentiate between the two species in a particular geographical area.

Allen's hummingbird is common only in the brushy woods, gardens, and meadows of coastal California from Santa Barbara north, and a minuscule portion of southern Oregon. The nominate race of Allen's hummingbird, (S. s. sasin), is migratory, and winters along the Pacific coast of central Mexico. A second, (S. s. sedentarius), is a permanent resident on the Channel Islands off southern California. This population colonized the Palos Verdes Peninsula of Los Angeles County in the 1960s and has since spread over much of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, south through San Diego County, and east to the western end of Riverside County (inland empire).

The courtship flight of male Allen's hummingbirds is a frantic back-and-forth flight arc of about 25 feet similar to the motion of a swinging pendulum, followed by a high-speed dive from about 100 feet. The male is also highly aggressive and territorial. Hot-tempered despite its diminutive stature, male Allen's hummingbirds will chase any other males from their territory, as well as any other hummingbird species, and have even been known to attack and rout predatory birds several times larger than themselves, such as kestrels and hawks.

This photograph has been featured in the following Groups:
A Birding Group - Wings
Wildlife 1 A Day
The Road to Self Promotion
The Hummingbird Whisperer

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