ruby-throat

This is why the gorget of a male ruby-throat, for instance, dazzles in sunlight but may look black in shade.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

One autumn, a ruby-throat, on its lonely, five-hundred-mile migration—a journey across the Gulf of Mexico, which can demand twenty-one hours of nonstop flight—landed, spent, on a drilling platform on the Mississippi coast.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Female ruby-throat we only get one kind in Maine, insert rampaging jealousy of western hummingbird aficionados here.

Drizzle jhetley 2005

Our native columbine, on the contrary, has longer, contracted, straight, erect spurs, most easily drained by the ruby-throat which, like Eugene Field, ever delights in

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Going into my front hall, whose veranda-door framed in a sunny picture of orange-boughs, jasmine-vines, and white-clouded blue sky, I had found a male ruby-throat circling about the ceiling, not wise enough to stoop, fly low, and pass out by the way it had come in.

Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884

My own opinion is, reluctant as I have been to reach it, that such absence or desertion -- by whatever name it may be called -- is the general habit of the male ruby-throat.

The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

Could such truancy be habitual with the male ruby-throat?

The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

In view of the foregoing evidence, it appears to me reasonably certain that the male ruby-throat, as a rule, takes no considerable part in the care of eggs and young.

The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

He had found four nests of the ruby-throat, but had seen no male about any of them after nidification was begun.

The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

For myself, indeed, as I have already said, I hold no brief against the ruby-throat, and, notwithstanding the seemingly unfavorable result of my investigation into his habits as a husband and father, it is by no means clear to me that we must call him hard names.

The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877