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Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Selasphorus platycercus

Description:

The most common hummer in the Rocky Mountains. Green on back, males have rose colored throat. Loud metallic trilling noise in flight (males).

Habitat:

This one was at a butterfly garden at the on the side of Cheyenne Mountain.

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HeidiEaton
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HeidiEaton

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Spotted on Sep 1, 2011
Submitted on Dec 17, 2012

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