02/27/2022
In February we helped to identify a new Hybrid Hummingbird in Tucson, Arizona: Costa x Broadbill. This is the first documented case of such a Hybrid. The bird is a little female in a private yard with an orange-colored beak, eye stripe of a Broadbill Female and coloring, size and body shape of a Costa Female. Privacy policies prevent us from posting a photo but a soon as the photo becomes public, we'll post the photo. In the meantime, here is a nice article about Hybrid Hummingbirds.
https://wildlife.org/researchers-discover-hummingbird-hybrid-zone/ #:~:text=Two%20closely%20related%20species%20%E2%80%94%20Allen's,Northern%20California%20to%20southern%20Oregon.
Two closely related species — Allen’s (Selasphorus sasin) and rufous hummingbirds (S. rufus) — are interbreeding in a newly discovered hybrid zone spanning from Northern California to southern Oregon. Around 2013 to 2014, researchers were having ...
