Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar Assigns Anna's Hummingbirds May 2026

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar Assigns Anna's Hummingbirds May 2026 Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Anna's hummingbirds May 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Anna's hummingbirds, coastal-west Canada's, coastal-west United States' and peninsular-west Mexico's garden-commonest hummingbird species, May 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series Anna's hummingbirds, genus-specied Calypte anna ("head-dress," Greek καλύπτρα) belongs to the Apodiformes ("footless-shaped," Greek ἄπους, Latin -fōrmēs) hummingbird-, swift-ordered Trochilidae ("plover-appearing," Latin trochilus -idæ) hummingbird-membered family René Lesson (Thurs., Mar 20, 1794-Sat., Apr 28, 1849) calling the species anna commemorates Anna Massena, Duchess of Rivoli (Wed., Jul 28, 1802-Fri., Jan., 28, 1887) A Frenchman determining an Italian designation perhaps does not direct us to the Trochilid ("Egyptian-plover," Greek τροχίλος {"run," τρέχω]) member dwelling where English and Spanish dominate Anna's hummingbirds elect Pacific-coastal North America from northwest Canada's British Columbia southward through Unitedstatesian west's coastal Washington, Oregon and California into northwest, peninsular Mexico's Baja California Dense, shrubby evergreens of coastal-south California once figured as the habitat favored by Anna's hummingbirds even as garden feeders and flowers further their flourishing Pacific Coast-wide Breeding habitats now group coastal, dense shrublands; open woodlands; or such anthropogenic ("human-kind/-offspring," Greek ἄνθρωπος ενής) grounds as cultivated, flower-scaped gardens, lawns, meadows, parks and yards Anna's hummingbirds head to chaparral ("evergreen-oak-dense/-dwarf," Basque txapar -o), open-woodland, suburban-garden habitats during breeding-season months December through July even as such habitats always house nectar sources Physically and sexually mature males impel two to three breeding intervals from December 2025 through July 2026 even as their sky-diving courtships impress their intended mates Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series jubilates May 2026, month six in Anna's hummingbirds' breeding-season octet Two- to 30-foot (0.6096- to 9.144-meter) heights keeping some moisture and nest support kindle 1.5-inch (3.81-centimeter) diameter feather-, plant down-lined, fine-stem, plant-down, spider-webbed lichen-flake exterior-ornamented nests Anna's-hummingbird mothers-to-be look after laying their eggs even as their solitary-species lifestyle leads their biannual to triannual nest-locating and egg-lodging to last two to 30 days They manage 16- to 17-day incubations of two long-elliptical to long-subelliptical, nonglossy, 13- by 9-millimeter (0.51181102- by 0.35433071-inch) white eggs whose one-by-one manifestations mandate two-day intervals Altricial ("nourisher/wetnurse," Latin altrīx ["feed/nourish/nurture," Latin alō), black-skinned, short-billed, yellow-mouthed nestlings with mid-back, smoky-gray down navigate as open-eyed five-day-olds, as sprouted-pinfeathered seven-day-olds and as independentized 12-day-olds Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar overlaps Anna's hummingbirds and May 2026 even as second- or third-brooded nestling-duo sets organize independent occupancies as fledged 25- to 26-day-olds Anna's hummingbirds perfect rapid-flight patterns even as fast wing-beating never prevents their pausing over nectared flowers and pursuing smaller-sized air- or foliage-peregrinating insect and spider prey Immature males and all females quarter green crowns and napes; red-flecked or red-spotted gray throats; gray-white underparts; green upperparts; green, rounded tails with white-tipped outer feathers Mature males reveal rose-red heads; rose-red necks and pale-throated sides; black, short, straight bills; gray underparts; green flanks and sides; iridescent-green upperparts; black-green, somewhat-notched, square tails Eight-year life-expectancy maximums standardize physical and sexual maturity at 4-inch (10-centimeter) body and 5-inch (13-centimeter) wingspan lengths and at 3/32- to 7/32-ounce (3- to 6-gram) weights Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar tracks Anna's hummingbirds May 2026 even as they transmit buzzing-, high-, thin-variable song-warbling; buzzy-, fast-chattered chase-calling; double-, hard-, serial-, sharp-"Tsit!" perch-calling

Summary: Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Wilson's plovers June 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Wilson's plovers, mid-, southeast-Atlantic, northeast-, north-, northwest-Caribbean Unitedstatesian and California-peninsular, Pacific-coastal Mexican shorebirds, June 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series.

Being genus-specied Charadrius wilsonia ("healing-powered-mythical-bird," Greek χαραδριός ["dry-riverbed," χαράδρα]) bases Wilson's plovers in the Charadriiformes ("plover-shaped," Latin charadrius fōrmēs) order's Charadriidae ("[Eurasian-stone-curlew-Burhinus-oedicnemus-]plover-appearing/-resembling," Latin charadrius -idæ) family. Unitedstatesian-zoologist George Ord (Sun., Mar 4, 1781-Wed., Jan. 24, 1866) calling the species wilsonia commemorates Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson (Sun., Jul 6, 1766-Mon., Aug. 23, 1813). Charadrius wilsonia beldingi (Lyman Belding [Fri., Jun 12, 1829-Thur., Nov. 22, 1917]; Robert Ridgway [Tues., Jul 2, 1850-Mon., Mar 25, 1929]) designates Pacific-coastal Mexican, peninsular-Californian subspecies.

Long-, stout-, straight-billed Wilson's plovers eat crustacean ("shell's," Latin crusta -acea), insect, mollusk ("soft-/thin-shelled," Latin molluscus) and worm prey and such hard-shelled crabs as fiddler crabs.

Mid-Atlantic through Florida-tip, north-Caribbean and southeast-Texas coastlines figure as breeding, migrating flyways favored by Wilson's plovers even as afore-featured Caribbean-coastal Texas through Florida fulfill overwintering functions.

Breeding grounds go from coastal-south Maryland and New Jersey coastally southward through and along coastal-east Florida, northward along peninsular Florida and coastally westward along coastal-southeast Texas. North-American Caribbean-Sea and southeast-Atlantic coasts house mud- and saltwater-flat, open-beach, overwash-area, vegetated-dune habitats even as such coastlines herald loose-colony and low-tide foraging Wilson's plovers shallow-scrape nest-housing. Physical and sexual maturity impels one breeding interlude, April through June, even as that interval's four 1.41732283- by 1.02362205-inch (36- by 26-millimeter) egg-maximum imperils already-declining populations.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series jubilates June 2026, month three in Wilson's plovers breeding-season trio.

Coastal reefs, sand dunes and shingle beaches kindle driftwood-, grass tuft-, open ground-kept pebble- and shell-fragment nests kept together, or not, with pebble- and shell-fragment lining.

Wilson's-plover mothers-to-be launch daylight-laying and day-time lodging their eggs even as Wilson's-plover fathers-to-be log nightly nest-locating and nest-lodging and looking after single-brooded eggs, hatchlings, nestlings, fledglings. They manage 24- to 25-day-incubating two to four black- to silver-blotched, scrawled, speckled, spotted, buff-cream, buff-white to cream, non- to somewhat-glossy, oval to short-oval, smooth eggs. Downy, precocial ("before I-ripen," Latin prǣ- coquō), black-paired flanks-, mid-to-lower-back-, tail-, wing-lined; black-speckled, irregular-paired crown-lined; buff-white-headed, back-headed, underside-headed; silver-faced, silver-undersided, white-collared hatchlings nestle elsewhere for 21-day-fledging.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series overlaps June 2026 and Wilson's plovers in last-chance, third-month single-broodability.

Wilson's plovers peregrinate hastily, horizontally, preferably proximitously to ground surfaces even as they prioritize direct, fast flight patterns whose ground-surface proximitousness protects them from predatory pursuers.

Mature females quarter adult-male colors and patterns even as they queue less contrast in head-color patterns and often-incomplete brow breastbands with minimal, or without any, black. Mature males reveal black breastbands, eyes, heavily long, stout bills; white eyebrows, foreheads, throats, underparts; brown upperparts; black-edged, white-barred brown wings; dusky-banded, white-edged tails; pink-legged pink-footedness. Physical, sexual maturity secures 6.5- to 8-inch (16- to 20-centimeter) body, 15.5- to 19.5-inch (39- to 49-centimeter) wingspan lengths; 2- to 2.5-ounce (55- to 70-gram) weights.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar teams June 2026 and Wilson's plovers even as the latter tone buzzy-descending, rattle-seried distraction; "peet"-short, "tweet"-slurred whistled-alarm; "pi-dit," short-"pip" flight calls.

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