Black-chinned hummingbird - Archilochus alexandri

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Black-chinned hummingbird - Archilochus alexandri
By Anita Trussler
Animal Diversity Web
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Terrestrial Biomes:
desert or dune; savanna or grassland; chaparral; forest; mountains

Food Habits
The diet of the Black-chinned Hummingbird consists of nectar, pollen, insects and sugar water from feeders. The black-chin prefers nectar from flowers of Tree Tobacco Nicotiana glauca, Scarlet Larkspur Delphinium cardinale, and Desert Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens. Black-chins dart out into the open to catch flying insects or gleans them from foliage to provide the protein necessary for proper development of their young (Terres 1980; DeGraaf et al. 1998).

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