🐦Ruby-throated hummingbird
The ruby-throated hummingbird is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Canada and other parts of Eastern North America for the summer to breed. It is the most common hummingbird in eastern North America, having population estimates of about 35 million in 2021.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 0 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 9.1 years
Everything we know about the Ruby-throated hummingbird
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan9.1 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation13 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 2AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWoodlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleGeneralistAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Ruby-throated hummingbird yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderApodiformes
- ›familyTrochilidae
- ›genusArchilochus
- ›speciesArchilochus colubris
- classBirds · Aves
- orderApodiformes
- familyTrochilidae
- genusArchilochus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderApodiformes
- familyTrochilidae
- genusArchilochus
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