If you were to head out to see and photograph each and every species of hummingbird in the US, you'd end up with around 16 different hummingbird species in your photo gallery. The most common species are:

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Anna’s Hummingbird

Rufous Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird

Costa’s Hummingbird

Allen’s Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird

The rarer and more unusual hummingbirds would be this group:

Buff-bellied

Blue-throated Mountain-gem

Violet-crowned

Lucifer

Berylline

White-eared

Green Violet-ear (Mexican Violetear)

Illinois has one, and only one, breeding species of hummingbird in our state. That species is the ruby-throated hummingbird , a species of hummingbird that happens to be the only one that re

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