rubythroat

English

Archilochus colubris

Calliope calliope

Rubigula dispar

Etymology

ruby +‎ throat

Noun

rubythroat (plural rubythroats)

Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.
1. A ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).
2. A Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) or white-tailed rubythroat (Calliope pectoralis),of genus Calliope (syn. Luscinia).
3. A ruby-throated bulbul (Rubigula dispar, syn. Pycnonotus dispar).

References

Ruby-throated hummingbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Archilochus colubris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Archilochus colubris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Calliope (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Calliope on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Calliope (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Rubigula dispar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pycnonotus dispar on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pycnonotus dispar on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
“rubythroat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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