Tag: rufous hummingbirds

One fall when Josée Rousseau was banding birds as a field technician at a station in Northern California, she was surprised to capture rufous hummingbirds. The species migrates from breeding...

Two closely related species — Allen’s (Selasphorus sasin) and rufous hummingbirds (S. rufus) — are interbreeding in a newly discovered hybrid zone spanning from Northern California to southern Oregon. Around 2013...