Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Selasphorus platycercus, is a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae and the order Apodiformes. It breeds in western and central USA, Mexico and western Guatemala in North America. Outside the breeding season it occurs in Middle America. It was described by Swainson in 1827.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- North America: wc USA, Mexico and w Guatemala
- Nonbreeding range
- Middle America
