The male has a white breast, but the rest of him, including his gorget, is mostly a color that can be described as copper, rusty, orange or rufous. The female is a mix of rufous, green, and gray ...

Adult female and young male and female (immature) rufous hummingbirds have a greenish back. Young males have a completely rufous tail, which is partially rufous and mostly green in females.

Our female rufous hummingbird, after only a day of skirmishing with the resident black-chinned hummingbirds, was joined by a striking adult male the very next day, so her rule over the yard was ...

I wondered if the rufous hummingbird would show up to spend the winter in our yard, as it had for the past four years. The Western hummingbird always arrived in August. Maybe it was just late this ...

Female rufous finds a temporary, and public, roost in Fairfax. March 2, 2013. A Rufous hummingbird — rare to Virginia — is wintering at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, ...

Rufous hummingbirds are annual winter residents in Houston neighborhoods. ... We've also welcomed another male, a juvenile, and a female to our yard every year since 2013. ...

Considered the feistiest hummingbird in North America and a rare visitor to the East, a rufous hummingbird was seen visiting a birdfeeder in East Andover on Sept. 27 and has been seen everyday ...

The Rufous Hummingbird is magical. The male’s iridescent throat glows brighter than a shiny copper penny and like most hummingbirds, whizzes through the air curiously hovering right in front of ...

Based on the number of reports from readers who have rufous hummingbirds at their feeders, I'm beginning to wonder if the ruddy-colored hummingbirds are making Texas their winter home this year ...