Expect to see more and more tiny birds, with fast wings, long beaks, and bright red throat patches, starting next week and into the fall. You’ll find them at feeders, in backyards, and around flowers.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are the only species of hummingbirds that breed in Alabama, and in fact the only species of hummingbird that breeds east of the Mississippi River. They’ll spend the summer breeding in Alabama’s forests, then head south for the winter.
“They live fast and furious lives,” said Emma Rhodes, co-founder of Banding Coalition of the Americas, a migratory bird research and conservation group…