Sonoran Desert Museum - Anna's Hummingbird
Here is an Arizona riddle for you — when is a museum not a museum? When it is a zoo. That is the mystique of the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. It is, in fact, a zoo featuring the plants and animals from the Sonoran Desert — that part of our country encompassing the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix area) and south into Mexico. My favorite part of the museum is the hummingbird aviary. Yes, an entire enclosure for hummingbirds! These tiny jewels offer amazing flying acrobatic skills — which makes them tough to photograph except when they land on a perch. This, I believe is an Anna's Hummingbird — not native to Arizona but a recent invader from California, which nests in the wild areas and in residential neighborhoods in winter.
Size: 4167px × 4167px
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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