Blue-throated Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird: Large hummingbird with bronze-green upperparts, bronze-brown rump, brilliant purple-blue throat, gray underparts. Tail is dark, occasionally washed with blue-black, and has white corners. Feeds on nectar and insects. Direct and hovering flight with very rapid wing beats.
● Song:
"seep-seep-seep-seep"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Blue-throated Hummingbird: Feeds on nectar and small arthropods, searching around flowers and leaves for various insects, spiders, and plant lice; prefers hunting in honeysuckle, gilia, and agave. Heavy diet of insects allows it to survive and thrive in areas where more nectar dependant species cannot.
● Breeding & nesting:
Blue-throated Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a large cup nest with green mosses woven into the outside wall and fastened to a vertical plant stalk or utility wire, usually over or near water. Incubation ranges from 17 to 18 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Blue-throated Hummingbird: Male Blue-throated Hummingbird is unmistakable. Female is similar to female Magnificent Hummingbird, but has large white tips to tail and white moustache stripe streak.