Selasphorus platycercus
- 13 × 8.8 mm
- Clutch: 2 eggs
Breeds in United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala
White and unmarked.
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 62 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds and Their Allies (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 176, 1940), p. 391.
Agrees with: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Life History. - Description
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Life History.
- Clutch
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds.
- Shape
- Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).
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