Illustration from National Geographic's Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
Selasphorus platycercus
June 15, 1806, west of Hungry Creek on the Lolo Trail, Idaho.
Male has rose red throat; white underparts with green sides. Length 4 in (10 cm).
Call is a sharp chick.
Mountain meadows, piņon-juniper woodlands, dry ponderosa pines, fir or mixed forests, and canyon vegetation.
Breeds in mountains from eastern California and northern Wyoming south through Great Basin and Rocky Mountain states to southern Arizona and western Texas. Winters in Mexico.
