Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson)

Identification               Life History               Distribution               Images               Data

Broad-tailed Hummingbird Identification:
The following sources provide good descriptions of the species.

• Hummingbird Id Site:  http://home.earthlink.net/~zoiseaux/btlh.html
• BioDiversity Institute:  www.bdi.org
• Hummingbirds.net:  http://www.hummingbirds.net/broadtailed.html
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center:  http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Idtips/h4320id.html
• eNature.com:  http://www.enature.com/html/guides/Broad-tailed_Hummingbird.html

Broad-tailed Hummingbird Life History:
The following are useful sources for life history information.

• eNature.com:  http://www.enature.com/html/guides/Broad-tailed_Hummingbird.html

Broad-tailed Hummingbird Distribution:
This species is the common hummingbird of the mountains from Idaho and Mountain south into southern Mexico.  Most birds winter in Mexico.  Vagrants wander widely, as far east as the Atlantic coast.

• Breeding Bird Survey Map from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center:
  http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/BBSMap/ra4320.gif
• Stacy Peterson's winter 2002-2003 map of vagrant occurrences:
  http://trochilids.tripod.com/USA/2002broadtail.html

Broad-tailed Hummingbird Images:
Our image gallery is currently under development.  The following is a sampling of web sites that contain images of this species.  Remember that most of the images are copyrighted - please obtain permission from the owner before using them.

• Hummingbirds.net:  http://www.hummingbirds.net/broadtailed.html
• eNature.com:  http://www.enature.com/html/guides/Broad-tailed_Hummingbird.html
• BioDiversity Institute:  www.bdi.org

Broad-tailed Hummingbird Data:
Here are few links to useful data sources for this species.

• Breeding Bird Surveys:  www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/
• Stacy Peterson's winter 2002-2003 tally of vagrant occurrences:  
  http://trochilids.tripod.com/USA/2002broadtail.html
• Louisiana Ornithological Society - many years of observations:  http://losbird.org/