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 LC    Broad-tailed Hummingbird* Id (Atlas):
    Selasphorus platycercus Vagrant

Description (10)
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Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
9 - 10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1827)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, temperate forest, high altitude shrubland. From 1,500 - 2,500 m, occasionally to 3,750 m.

Range (Guide)
Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, USA (B).

Western and west-central USA (southern Idaho and northern Wyoming south to eastern California, Arizona and south-western Texas) south through upland Mexico to highlands of Guatemala. Northern populations winter in Mexico and Guatemala.
 
Population
Estimated population is 4,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (85)...)

 
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) [XC132854]
     by Richard E. Webster from Portal, Arizona, United States (display, wing whine)

 
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) [XC319938]
     by Richard E. Webster from Lyons, Boulder County, Colorado, United States (call, flight call)

Subspecies
In past, occasionally placed in Archilochus.

Proposed subspecies guatemalae (Guatemala) is poorly defined: morphological patterns and variation in size are clinal in character.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) - 10 files


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