Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Latin: Archilochus colubris /French: Colibri à gorge rubis/Lenape: Lelèmbëlis

Ruby-throated Hummingbird:  Coppermines Parking Area along river, Delaware Water Gap, 9/9/02, sound of wings beating (17kb).  These birds were sipping nectar from Trumpet flowers just as in Audubon's depiction to the left.

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Anna's Hummingbird: song from telephone wire in front of private residence in Oakland hills, 6/17/03 (146kb). 

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See also, "Ruby-throated Hummingbird" from "Bent's: Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds", http://home.bluemarble.net/~pqn/ch11-20/hummingb.html