Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus)

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) [XC206008]
by Sue Riffe from Spring Brook Trail, El Dorado Spgs, Boulder County, Colorado, United States (display sounds, wing whirr)

Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus) [XC132827]
by Richard E. Webster from Portal, Arizona, United States (call, chase call, wing whine)

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.

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