Black-chinned Hummingbird

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Black-chinned Hummingbird | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Trochiliformes | familia = Trochilidae | genus = Archilochus | species = A. alexandri | binomial = Archilochus alexandri | binomial_authority = (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) }}

The Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) is a small hummingbird.

Adults are metallic green above and white below with green flanks. Their bill is long, straight and very slender. The adult male has a black face and chin, a glossy purple throat band and a dark forked tail. The female has a dark rounded tail with white tips and no throat patch; they are similar to female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.

Their breeding habitat is open semi-arid areas near water in the western United States, northern Mexico and southern British Columbia. The female builds a well-camouflaged nest in a protected location in a shrub or tree using plant fibre, spider webs and lichens.

They are migratory and most winter in Mexico.

These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue or catch insects on the wing. While collecting nectar, they also assist in plant pollination.

Because of their small size, they are vulnerable to insect-eating birds and animals. This bird is fairly common in its breeding range.ja:ノドグロハチドリ