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.