Here is a picture of a ruby-throated hummingbird. Out of all the birds that we regularly see in Huletts in the summer, this little bird has one of the longest winter migrations. Right now it’s probably wintering in Central America somewhere between Mexico and Panama.
“As with most of our migratory birds, hummingbirds apparently evolved to their present forms during the last ice age. They were (and largely still are) tropical birds, but as the great ice sheets retreated from North America, they gradually expanded their ranges to exploit rich temperate food resources and nesting space, filling unoccupied niches in the U.S and southern Canada while evading intense competition in the tropics.”