Like many “western” hummingbirds, the broad-tailed ... female rufous can be all-green); and their chip calls are slightly lower pitched. Also see female and immature calliope hummingbird.
But one Mississippi man is enjoying a rare event as what appears to be a female Rufous hummingbird has taken up residence at his home. "I was excited," said Wayne Patterson of Columbus.
And since I wrote that, I’ve heard of three Selasphorus, or rufous, species that showed up in this area. Two are in Pennsylvania and one is in New Jersey. You don’t have to be a hummingbird ...
A research team led by Princeton's Mary Caswell Stoddard trained wild hummingbirds, like this male broad-tailed hummingbird, to perform a series of experiments that revealed that the tiny birds ...