Broad Tailed Hummingbird
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Broad Tailed Hummingbird
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Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
Description
Male and female broad-tailed hummingbirds have iridescent green backs and crowns and a white breast. The male has a gorget or throat patch that shines with a brilliant pink-red iridescence and a broad, predominantly black tail accented with varying amounts of green, rufous, and occasionally white.
This is the common breeding hummer of the Rocky Mountains. The male is more easily identified by a distinctive shrill metallic wing whistling than by its wider rounded tail and rose-colored throat. No other western hummingbird has a green crown and tail plus a solid red throat.
Image copyright 2016 Jon Burch Photography all rights reserved.
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June 14th, 2016
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Gary Richards
Beautiful colors in this HB capture! We don't get too many broad-tailed HBs here in my part of Texas. Mainly, it is Ruby-throated and Black-chinned HBs.
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