Broad-tailed hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbirds can be found in high elevations of California, Mexico, and the southern and central Rocky Mountains. The live in open woodland, especially pinyon-juniper and pine-oak, brushy hillsides, montane scrub and thickets. In migration and winter you may also see them in open parts of lowlands where flowering shrubs are present. The cold climate of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds’ northernmost range, where temperatures may drop below freezing even in the summer, requires that these small-bodied birds select their immediate environments very carefully. Broad-tailed Hummingbirds live most often in subalpine meadows and shrubby areas with nearby forests of willow, pine, fir or spruce.