*Among the most splendid of God's creations are these aces of the air, so the brief comment below could have no better musical accompaniment than St. Francis of Assissi's "All Creatures Canticle."
Our Smithsonian Handbook of Birds of North America shows photos of the male and the female warbler. I had assumed that our hummerbird was a flashy male. Turns out that the male is even more golden and colorful, illustrative of the fact that in the animal kingdom this is the rule. Among humans, the appellation "fair sex" makes clear that the opposite is true.