{"id":34556,"date":"2025-06-04T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34556"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:22:38","slug":"two-hummingbird-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34556","title":{"rendered":"Two hummingbird species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, I posted pictures of our three hummingbirds. The males arrived first and of the three, two were illustrated with iridescent chins (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34515).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, the females are here, but one species, the calliope, has not returned. So, this posting will show just the rufous and the black-chinned. However, a female is shown, and the male appears with and without displaying its chin&#8217;s iridescence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First is the rufous, then the black-chinned.<\/p>\n<p>The male Rufous Hummingbird is normally seen with a simple black chin.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34559\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rufoushummingbird250502bs-e1749044067660.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, when it is seen opposite the sun, its chin turns an iridescent orange.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34562\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rufoushummingbird250601as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The female shows a series of spots on the chin that occasionally are iridescent.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34565\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rufoushummingbird250505as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Usually, the male Black-chinned Hummingbird is seen without iridescence.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34566\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/blackchinnedhummingbird250529as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, when opposite the sun, its lower chin lights up in iridescent violet.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34561\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/blackchinnedhummingbird250531as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our female Black-chinned Hummingbird has practically no chin adornments.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34563\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/blackchinnedhummingbird250602as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three weeks ago, I posted pictures of our three hummingbirds. The males arrived first and of the three, two were illustrated with iridescent chins (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34515).\u00a0 Now, the females are here, but one species, the calliope, has not returned. So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34573,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34556\/revisions\/34573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}