Rufous Hummingbird
Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, breeds in North America from se Alaska through western Canada and north-west USA, and spends the nonbreeding season in the southern USA and northern and central Mexico. It is a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae, first described by Gmelin in 1788. A key field mark is the long, straight, slender bill. It is a small bird and one of the nine species placed in Selasphorus. Its breeding range reaches farther north than any other hummingbird, with nesting in Alaska.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- North America: se Alaska, w Canada and nw USA
- Nonbreeding range
- s USA and n, c Mexico
