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"They're about eight times the size of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird. We knew that some Giant Hummingbirds migrated, but until we sequenced genomes from the two populations, we had never realized just how different they are."

“I would love to walk down the street and see more gardens like this,” Bautista said as he pointed out a ruby-throated hummingbird nibbling on one of his sage plants.

We rarely get the rufous in the Washington area, but we do get its cousin, the ruby-throated hummingbird.

Though there are more than 330 species in the Americas, the ruby-throated hummingbird is generally the only species that makes the Mid-Atlantic its home between spring and early fall, before flying across the Gulf of Mexico to winter in Central and South America.

Around these parts, it’s the ruby-throated hummingbird that holds court, though the occasional rufous hummingbird also drops in.