Anna's hummingbird
Anna's hummingbird (© Dee/Getty Images)
Humming along
This iridescent bird is an Anna’s hummingbird, apparently named after the 19th century French courtier Anne d’Essling, who served as Mistress of the Robes to the wife of France’s last monarch, Emperor Napoleon III. Presumably Anne herself never saw her namesake bird, which is native to the western coastal regions of North America.
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