Rufous-tailed Hummingbird – Bird Art Print on Wood

This listing is for a limited edition, fine art print of my original painting of a Rufous-tailed Hummingbird titled, “Into the Blue Once Again.”

This adorable little fellow was photographed by an ornithologist who was kind enough to let me use her reference photo to work from. This bird’s sweet feathers sparkle like jewels, don’t you think?

About the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

From The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is found in areas like clearings, gardens, forest edges and some secondary forests. They prefer lower habitats and may frequent bird feeders that are in open areas with some coverage.

Like most hummingbirds, they’re extremely aggressive and territorial. It dives at other hummingbirds or large insects (such as butterflies) that invade their feeding area.

Like many other hummingbirds, its metabolic rate is so high that it goes into a torpor state at night to conserve energy. The Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is polygynous. Males will often become territorial over an area of flowers, presumably not only for their nectar but for courting females.

They’re perhaps the most common species of hummingbird at the forest edge and in gardens and cultivated areas from southern Mexico to northwestern South America.

Range Map of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird