Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Selasphorus platycercus
Family: Hummingbirds
Broad-tailed Hummingbird is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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The diet of the broad-tailed hummingbirds consists mainly of insects and nectar of plants that are "hummingbird-flowered".
The nest has an overall cup shape and is stuck to a tree branch with spider webs, camouflaged by the addition of an external layer of lichen, moss, and tree material.
Medium in size, the broad-tailed hummingbird is 4 inches in length and possesses an overall wingspan of 5.25 inches.