Broad-billed Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird
Patton Center for Hummingbirds, Patagonia, Arizona, USA
July 2019
Member of the Hummingbird Family
§A Glittering of Hummingbirds§

~true bird fact~ Can't walk or hop, like all Hummingbirds, his feet are just for perching. Early accounts of Hummingbirds speculated that they had no feet at all. You know blog reader *turns chair backwards in preparation of getting real with you* we've had fun with hummingbirds here on Amateurnithologist, but I feel like we've gotten off on the wrong (possibly non-existent) foot. Enough pretending that hummingbirds are bugs, or robots, or were invented by Tim Allen. We're going to dedicate some real time to hanging out with these extremely cool and highly specialized birds. That's why for the next month I'm rolling out a feature called Great Hummers of Late Summer and looking at a different bird each week. I will not be taking comments on the name of the feature.

Prideful
Nearly made it as an Olympic athlete, but some mysterious tragedy or circumstance prevented him from fulfilling his dream
Never appears to be feeling either too hot or too cold