while the Black-Chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) feasts on wasps, beetles, ants, and spiders. Nestlings are fed the standard fare of their respective breeds. Luckily for bird lovers ...

‘In a sense, east meets west here, as the ruby-throat officially known as the Archilochus colubris is an eastern bird and the black-chinned known as Archilochus alexandri is western.’ ...