Allen's Hummingbird
Selasphorus sasin (Lesson, RP, 1829)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Allen's Hummingbird, Selasphorus sasin, breeds in western North America and spends the nonbreeding season in central Mexico. It is a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae and was first described by Lesson in 1829. Along the west coast it is found in coastal forests, shrubland, brushy woods, gardens and meadows, with breeding centred in California and southern coastal Oregon. Adult males can be recognised by a green upper body, rufous sides, rump and tail, and an orange-red throat. Females and young lack that throat patch and show speckling there, with white-tipped tails.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- North America: w
- Nonbreeding range
- c Mexico
