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Home and Garden > Gardening > Birds & Bird Houses on April 09, 2012

Black Hummingbirds

Last summer at my daughter's house which has plenty of the bird feeders and are always filled we noticed what we thought was a black moth. Wrong! As we got closer we saw it was a hummingbird. We can not find anything on black hummingbirds. Can you help?
Thank you for any info you may have on the black kind.

By Jodi from east TX

Answers: Black Hummingbirds

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04/10/2012

I found your answer....I think. There is a black hummingbird called Black Chinned Hummingbird. My son gave me a backyard bird book for Christmas and I looked this one up. According to the book, the male's gorget is matte black above and violet below which often makes it appear all black. It has a white breast band below the gorget and a black slightly forked tail. Seems there are pretty common in the Southwest and up into Canada. If you want I could scan the book pages and email them. Hope this helps!

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04/10/2012

If it's totally black it may have a condition called "melanism" which is the opposite of albinism. Instead of a lack of pigmentation, there is an excess.

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04/10/2012

Go to google.com and type in black hummingbirds. You will find many sites to open for black chin hummingbirds.

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