Magnificent hummingbird Eugenes fulgens

Identification Tips:

• Length: 5 inches
• Long, thin bill
• Large hummingbird
• White spot behind eye
• Dark blackish-green upperparts
• United States ranged restricted to southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

Adult male:

• Metallic green throat (black in poor light)
• Black breast
• Purple crown
• Gray undertail coverts
• Black forked tail

Adult female:

• Dull gray underparts
• Dark, rounded tail with grayish-white corners

Similar species:

The male Magnificent Hummingbird is unmistakeable. Female is similar to female Blue-throated Hummingbird but lacks large white tips to tail and white malar streak. Other hummingbirds are much smaller.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.