Occasionally this species breaks the Hummingbird rule against walking and slips along a limb for inches to probe a nearby blossom.
Like the Rivoli, the BLUETHROAT is slow and dignified in demeanor and an observer, at first sight, would be quite likely to mistake one for another genus.
They are said to combine a series of notes into semblance of a song.
Southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and western Texas.