Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
I compared this audio with calls on Xeno-Canto and the RUHU's chip calls have the same spectrogram, with the hard chip notes spanning from 2k-9k.
Observation details
Correction 2/1/23 per Sheri Williamson to Black-chinned Hummingbird. I now have this bird and a female RUHU in the yard.} I first heard the calling, which was very different than the Anna's Hummingbirds that were also doing their "stit-stit-stit..." call in the yard at the same time. In fact it was the different call that got my attention and I ran to get my recorder and camera. The bird is a female/immature, the colors are a bit lost in the photos due to the low evening light. I noted that the tail was extremely large, wide, and long when it hovered to feed on the flowers -- the tail seemed bigger than the bird! I didn't notice any rufous in the tail, but it was actively feeding (salvia and bottle-brush flowers, not a feeder setting) so I could have easily missed small amounts of dark rufous in the low light. It had extensive white tips to the tail (as evident in the photo also). The tail was much longer than the wings when perched. It had buffy flanks and sides of breast (pale but showing a bit in the photos despite the washed-out photo color). The throat showed very fine and neat spotting. Three photos and 1 audio attached.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 6
- Microphone
- Internal
- Accessories
- n/a
- Original file size
- 1.18 MB