Hummingbird Field Guide

Color By Numbers ID Game // Juego de colores según los números

YOUR FIELD GUIDE

Field guides are like a dictionary with lots of pictures and tips on how to identify a living thing, or an organism. Ornithologists, scientists who study birds, often use field guides to look for unique patterns — field marks — on birds they see outside. The details of these field marks can help to spot the difference between one bird and another. Scroll down to see your Hummingbird Field Guide.

IDENTIFY The Bird!

In northern Utah, we are lucky enough to have four types (or species) of hummingbirds that live here. Can you match your hummingbird to the correct species below?

  1. Use your Color By Numbers ID Game to identify the characteristic field mark that can help you tell the hummingbirds apart.

  2. Then, identify which bird is which species on your worksheet!

  3. Report your birds in the comments on the Tracy Aviary Facebook page. Tell us what you learned about the field mark that shows off which species each one is, and anything you find interesting about each species.

Calliope hummingbird

Colibrí Calíope

Identify this bird by…

  • The magenta gorget, or “gorgeous throat” of the male with lots of spacing between its feather where you see a white base.

  • The loud sounds of their wings sounds like a bumblebee splattering paint!

Learn More: All About Birds

 

broad-tailed hummingbird

Zumbador cola-ancha

Identify this bird by…

  • The magenta gorget, or “gorgeous throat” of the male!

  • The loud sounds the males make! Imagine a cricket (the chips) fighting a bee (the buzzing of their very fast wing beats) with a light saber.

Learn More: Project Broadtail SLC // All About Birds

 

BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD

Colibrí gorjinegro

Identify this bird by

  • The velvety, black gorget, or “gorgeous throat” with a thin, iridescent purple base

  • The repetitive buzz of the males’ wings! Imagine a wind up toy being let loose, wound back up, and let loose again.

Learn More: All About Birds

 

Anna’s Hummingbird

Colibrí de Anna

Identify this bird by…

  • The rose-pink gorget, or “gorgeous throat” and head!

  • The whistle and buzz of their wings! It sounds like a bumblebee whistling a metallic tune.

Learn More: All About Birds

 

Report your findings on which hummingbird you have on your Color By Number ID sheet on the Tracy Aviary Facebook page!