Hummingbird Migration Festival. Strawberry Plains, Mississippi

After each birb was banded. They let people release them. He is letting the kids feel its heart rate, which is 1200 times a minute.

Healthy adult female ruby-throated hummingbird. At 3.85 grams, she was one of the biggest they recorded that day. This is the birb that was banded in the other post. As you can see, she was fine!

This is a new male, hatched this spring. If you look closely, he has one or two red feathers on his throat, and his head was darkening—evidence of his survival to adulthood. In a few weeks, he will have his male plumage—a black head with an iridescent red throat.