Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827)
Spanish: Zumbador Cola Ancha
The Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 3.5 g and its bill is 21.1 mm long. It lives in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.5 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 21.1 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Mellisugini bees
- Genus Selasphorus
What Selasphorus share: Includes some of the longest-migrating hummingbirds, such as the Rufous Hummingbird.
Where it lives · 4 countries
- United States
- Mexico
- Guatemala
- Canada rare visitor
Others in the genus Selasphorus
- Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin
- Bumblebee Hummingbird Selasphorus heloisa
- Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
- Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti
- Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope
- Volcano Hummingbird Selasphorus flammula
- Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla
- Glow-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ardens
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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