Broad-tailed Hummingbird Images

Broad-tailed Hummingbird Images and Information:

Selasphorus platycercus

  • Broad-tailed Hummingbirds are medium sized hummingbirds. Male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds have iridescent watermelon red gorgets, green backs and flanks, grayish bellies with white below the gorget, dark green tails that can show some rufous coloration. Female Broad-tailed Hummingbirds are slightly larger than the males, they have green backs, some orange-rufous is shown in their flanks, whitish throats with speckling, their tails are dark green and rufous and they have white tipped outer tail feathers.
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbirds are migratory. During the breeding season they can be found from the mountains in eastern California, the Great Basin, Rocky Mountains states south to Southern Arizona, New Mexico, Western Texas and Mexico. They winter in Mexico.
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbirds can be found in habitats that include ponderosa forests, pinyon-juniper woodlands, mixed forests, mountains meadows and mountainous riparian zones.
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbirds feed on floral nectar and small insects.
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbirds lay two eggs which hatch in 14 to 17 days. The female incubates and they are promiscuous.
  • A group of hummingbirds can be called a “tune”, “hover”, “shimmer”, or a “bouquet” of hummingbirds.
  • The oldest known Broad-tailed Hummingbird was a female who was over 12 years old when she was recaptured in Colorado.

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