Broad-Billed Hummingbirds

The Broad-Billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) is a small-sized hummingbird that resides in Mexico and the southwestern United States. The bird is also known for its other common names – the Colibrí Pico Ancho in Spanish and the Colibri circé in French. It is a diurnal bird, consuming both nectar and insects. The hummingbird is also known to frequent sugar-water hummingbird feeders. Their eating habits revealed that the broad-billed hummingbird preferred to visit red or red-and-yellow flowers the most.

The male has a blue throat, white undertail coverts, and a dark green body. The male adult's wide, blackish-blue tail is distinctive. The feathers used for flight are grayish-brown. The adult female has a white eyestripe behind each eye and a pale belly. Her tail has white tips on the feathers. The male's bill is smaller but redder and more vivid. Males are bigger than females in terms of their wings and tails, both as juveniles and as adults. The youngsters' coloring tends to mimic that of the adult female. The juvenile males' throats eventually develop iridescent feathers, and their bills eventually turn red. The young boys lack the white-tipped tail that the females do.