Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) - HBW 5, p. 679
French: Colibri à queue large
German: Breitschwanzelfe
Spanish: Colibrí Coliancho
Taxonomy: Trochilus platycercus Swainson, 1827, no locality = Mexico.
In past, occasionally placed in Archilochus. Proposed race guatemalae (Guatemala) is poorly defined: morphological patterns and variation in size are clinal in character. Monotypic.
Distribution: W & WC USA (S Idaho and N Wyoming S to E California, Arizona and SW Texas) S through upland Mexico to highlands of Guatemala. N populations winter in Mexico and Guatemala.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An adult male, followed by a female in a nest at night with artificial lighting Locality Portal, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Steven Siegel 30 April 1998 8 years ago 25 sec 3.7
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Male.
Locality Echo Lake, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA (United States)
Juan Carlos Marín 25 June 2007 3 years ago 4.3 -
Male Broad-tailed hummingbird nailed.
Locality Walden, Jackson County, Colorado, USA (United States)
Mike Ross 4 July 2011 35 weeks ago 4.2 -
Bird resting on feeder at the Ranger Station in Dog Canyon, north end of Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Locality Dog Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA (United States)
Tom Moxley 16 April 2010 1 year ago 4.2 -
A male on a perch at the feeders at Beatty's Guest Ranch
Locality Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 6 August 2007 2 years ago 4 -
A male at a feeder at Beatty's Guest Ranch
Locality Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 6 August 2007 2 years ago 4 -
Hummingbird at a feeder
Locality Utah, USA (United States)
killiajk 25 July 2008 3 years ago 3.8
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