Broad tailed hummingbird3/7/2023 ![]() North bound migrant Broad-tailed Hummingbirds have been found in Texas from March 23 to May 31 with peak migration between late March to late April. Migratory populations winter from Central Mexico to Oaxaca (Howell and Webb 1995, Sauer et al. An isolated population is resident in Chiapas, Mexico. Outside Texas this hummingbird breeds from the highlands of southern Idaho and Wyoming south through eastern California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and mainland Mexico south to Oaxaca. North American Breeding Bird Survey field workers found <1 Broad-tail per route in the northern Trans-Pecos region (Sauer et al. Lockwood and Freeman (2004) describe the species as uncommon to locally common in the Chisos, Davis and Guadalupe mountains. These last 2 possible records are not associated with the usual upper elevation habitats in which Broad-tailed Hummingbirds typically nest. ![]() During the 1987-1992 field work period of the TBBA project observers found 6 confirmed, 4 probable and 6 possible breeding records, 10 of these (including all the confirmed records) in latilong 31104 (the Guadalupe Mountains), 4, including 3 probables, in 30104 (the Davis Mountains) and 1 possible each in 3011. Its nesting ecology is influenced by the female’s need to keep her eggs and nestlings warm during the cold nights at these elevations while she enters torpor to survive Calder and Calder 1992).ĭISTRIBUTION. Broad-tailed Hummingbird is most easily detected by the male’s wing-trill, heard even at elevations below its high altitude breeding grounds. ![]()
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