On my recent trip to southeastern Arizona my guide Jake Thompson scheduled time at Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary, in Hereford, south of Sierra Vista and near the base of the Huachuca Mountains, primarily for the purpose of seeing a lucifer hummingbird, because that is a place that has been regularly seeing them. I was not disappointed as a female came to the hummingbird feeders first, then was later followed by a male. It is also known as the lucifer sheartail.
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| Illustration of a female from Birds of the World. |
The males really pop out.
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| Illustration of a male from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. It primarily breeds on the arid plateaus and mountain slopes of central and northern Mexico, entering the U.S. in west Texas, southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico. |
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