{"id":9672,"date":"2022-02-16T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:58:45","slug":"rare-bird-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/rare-bird-sighting\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Bird Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year we see or hear about a variety of rare birds in Florida. It almost always happens during migrations. This year has brought us a Calliope Hummingbird which is native to the far western United States. According to Audubon, it is the smallest bird in North America. The bird we saw was either female or an immature male as the adult males have beautiful purple stripes on their throats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220128-3-calliope-hummingbird-female-in-live-oak-tree.jpg\" alt=\"Calliope Hummingbird Female In Live Oak Tree\" class=\"wp-image-99071\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Calliope Hummingbird Female in a Live Oak Tree<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220128-3-calliope-hummingbird-female-perched-on-small-branch.jpg\" alt=\"Calliope Hummingbird Female Perched On Small Branch\" class=\"wp-image-99072\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Calliope Hummingbird Female Perched on a Small Branch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bird was visiting feeders with several ruby-throated hummingbirds at a residence east of Tampa. Fortunately, the homeowner is a bird watcher who was happy to let us try to photograph the rare sighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220128-3-ruby-throated-hummingbird-female-resting-on-perch.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Throated Hummingbird Female Resting On Perch\" class=\"wp-image-99073\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ruby-throated Hummingbird Female Resting on a Perch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220128-4-ruby-throated-hummingbird-male-showing-red-gorget.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Throated Hummingbird Male Showing Red Gorget\" class=\"wp-image-99077\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ruby-throated Hummingbird Male Displaying His Red Gorget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More photos have been uploaded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/hummingbirds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Hummingbirds<\/strong><\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year we see or hear about a variety of rare birds in Florida. It almost always happens during migrations. This year has brought us a Calliope Hummingbird which is native to the far western United States. According to Audubon, it is the smallest bird in North America. The bird we saw was either female&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220128-5-calliope-hummingbird-female-resting-on-small-branch.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109926,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions\/109926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}