Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris

Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, Female. Photograph taken in the greater Puerto Vallarta area, Guerrero, March 2014. Photograph courtesy of Dr. Tom Bartol, Carlsbad, California.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, Males. Photographs taken within a residential community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 2022. Photographs and identifications courtesy of Faith Hubsch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, is a member of the Trochilidae Family of Hummingbirds. They are small in stature. In Mexico they are wintertime visitors and found in coastal regions within the Atlantic Slope from southern Veracruz south through the Yucatán Peninsula, and within the Pacific Slope from southern Sinaloa to Oaxaca at elevations below 3,000 m (9,850 feet). From a conservation perspective the Ruby-throated Hummingbird is currently considered to be of Least Concern with stable, widely distributed populations. They are found in tropical deciduous forests with patches of semi-deciduous forest in arroyos. They primarily consume the nectar from a wide variety of flowers and limited amounts of insects.