Blue-throated hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae

Identification Tips:

• Length: 5.25 inches
• Long, thin bill
• Large hummingbird
• White stripe behind eye
• White malar streak
• Green upperparts
• Grayish underparts
• Black, rounded tail with broad white tips
• United States ranged restricted to southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and west Texas. Stray elsewhere.

Adult male:

• Blue throat (black in poor light)

Similar species:

The male Blue-throated Hummingbird is unmistakeable. Female is similar to female Magnificent Hummingbird but has 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.