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.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Broad-tailed Hummingbird photos.
Hovering female Broad-tailed Hummingbird in May
Title: Hovering female Broad-tailed Hummingbird in May
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2020
Broad-tailed Hummingbird female hovering under a Wax Currant flower
Title: Broad-tailed Hummingbird female hovering under a Wax Currant flower
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2020
Broad-tailed Hummingbird female feeding on the nectar of a Wax Currant
Title: Broad-tailed Hummingbird female feeding on the nectar of a Wax Currant
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2020
Female Broad-tailed Hummingbird hovering under a Wax currant
Title: Female Broad-tailed Hummingbird hovering under a Wax currant
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/5/2020
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird sipping nectar
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird sipping nectar
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/21/2019
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Broad-tailed Hummingbird male in a chokecherry tree
Title: Broad-tailed Hummingbird male in a chokecherry tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird defensive posture
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird defensive posture
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird landing on a Chokecherry branch
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird landing on a Chokecherry branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Adult male Broad-tailed Hummingbird perched on a Chokecherry branch
Title: Adult male Broad-tailed Hummingbird perched on a Chokecherry branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Broad-tailed Hummingbird male on a Chokecherry tree branch
Title: Broad-tailed Hummingbird male on a Chokecherry tree branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Adult Broad-tailed Hummingbird male in a chokecherry tree
Title: Adult Broad-tailed Hummingbird male in a chokecherry tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird with an eye on me
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird with an eye on me
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Broad-tailed Hummingbird male landing on a chokecherry
Title: Broad-tailed Hummingbird male landing on a chokecherry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird lifting off
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird lifting off
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2019
Landing male Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Title: Landing male Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/7/2019
Broad-tailed Hummingbird male peeing
Title: Broad-tailed Hummingbird male peeing
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird about to land
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird about to land
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Adult male Broad-tailed Hummingbird stretching his wings
Title: Adult male Broad-tailed Hummingbird stretching his wings
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird showing his tongue
Title: Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird showing his tongue
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Calling Broad-tailed Hummingbird male
Title: Calling Broad-tailed Hummingbird male
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019