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Selasphorus platycercus

Common names: Broad-tailed hummingbirds, Broad-tailed hummingbird
Taxonomy: Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae
Roles: pollinator
ITIS TSN: 178038
External: iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 115 | Mentions: 147

Local Knowledge Graph (42 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on Selasphorus platycercus with 42 nodes and 151 connections. Top connected: Unknown, Competition for hummingbird pollination and sequen, Hummingbird, Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of pla, Bombus.

Publications (115)

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A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025Role: text_match
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Effects of experimental warming on floral scent, display and rewards in two subalpine herbs

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta

2025EvolutionRole: text_match
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Observing the effects of a nectar-inhabiting bacterium, Pantoea sp., and nectar robbing on male fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025Role: text_match
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Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

2025Role: text_match
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The impact of soil moisture, nectar production, and spectral reflectance on hummingbird visitation patterns to the Scarlet Gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata)

2025Role: pollinator
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Visitors to Red-Naped Sapsucker sap wells and the effectiveness of artificial wells

2025Role: text_match
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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: text_match
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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: text_match
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Climate disruption on avian species and communities in the southern Rocky Mountains

2023Role: text_match
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Effects of Daily Temperature Changes on Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Foraging Patterns

2023Role: text_match
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Pollinator and habitat-mediated selection as potential contributors to ecological speciation in two closely related species

2023Evolution LettersRole: text_match
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Assessing the Impact that the Keystone Species, the Red Naped Sapsucker (<i> Sphyrapicus nuchalis </i>), has on the Community of Species in the East River

2022Role: text_match
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Climate change and phenology

2022WIREs Climate ChangeRole: text_match
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Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

2022Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Determining changes in floral volatile composition of <i> Ipomopsis aggregata </i> in response to nectar robbing and its associated microorganisms

2022Role: text_match
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The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

2022Role: text_match
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Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match
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Investigating the relationship between <i> Bombus appositus </i> abundance and its overlap with key floral resources

2021Role: text_match
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Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

2021Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match
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Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages

2021American NaturalistRole: pollinator
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The influence of human recreational trail use has on rodent and predator activity using motion triggered cameras

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Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: text_match
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Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

2020OikosRole: text_match
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Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match
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Effects of Climate Change on Birds

2019Role: text_match
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Effects of pond permanence on avian behaviors

2019Role: text_match
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Foraging efficiency and size matching in a plant-pollinator communitiy: the importance of sugar content and tongue length

2019Ecology lettersRole: text_match
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How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019Role: text_match
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The Effects of Exclusion Bags and Open-Top Chambers on Pollinator Activity

2019Student paperRole: text_match
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Volatile organic compounds as signals for pollinators and their consistency across years

2019Role: text_match
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Atypical flowers can be as profitable as typical hummingbird flowers

2018The American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

2018Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Synchronization of speed, sound and iridescent color in a hummingbird aerial courtship dive

2018Nature CommunicationsRole: text_match
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The Effects of Declining Aspen Forest Health on Rocky Mountain Birds

2018Role: text_match
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Effects of road dust on the pollination and reproduction of wildflowers

2017International Journal of Plant SciencesRole: text_match
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Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Variation in bill morphology and pollen prevalence in the Broad-Tailed Hummingbird (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>)

2017Role: text_match
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Bill Morphology and Niche Partitioning in <i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>

2016Role: text_match
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Comparing clines in floral and vegetative traits along an elevation gradient in an <i>Ipomopsis</i> hybrid zone

2016Role: text_match
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Drought, pollen and nectar availability, and pollination success

2016EcologyRole: text_match
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Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color

2015EvolutionRole: text_match
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Effects of proximity to riparian zones on avian species richness and abundance in montane aspen woodlands.

2015Journal of Field OrnithologyRole: text_match
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Elevational and temporal variation in Ipomopsis floral and vegetative traits.

2015Role: text_match
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Why doesn't nectar robbing decrease seed set in some bee-pollinated plants?

2015Role: text_match
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Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

2014EcosphereRole: text_match
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Correlating road dust with reproduction of Ipomopsis aggregate.

2014Role: text_match
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Floral scent in natural hybrids of <i>Ipomopsis</i> (Polemoniaceae) and their two parental species

2014Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

2014Role: text_match
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Nectar Yeasts in the Tall Larkspur <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i> (Ranunculaceae) and Effects on Components of Pollinator Foraging Behavior

2014PloS oneRole: text_match
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Stimulation of flower nectar replenishment by removal: a survey of eleven animal-pollinated plant species

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match
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The Impact of Primary and Secondary Robbing on Hummingbird Pollination.

2014Role: text_match
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Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: Implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa

2013American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Plasticity and changes in selection in response to changing precipitation regimes

2013Role: text_match
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Asynchronous changes in phenology of migrating Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and their early season nectar resources

2012EcologyRole: text_match
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How do riparian songbirds (Passerines) coexist? Effects of vegetative structural complexity on habitat selection in willow (<i>Salix</i> spp.)

2012Role: text_match
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Investigating the impact of pollinator- and seed predator-mediated selection on floral traits in an <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> and <i>I. tenuituba</i> (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone

2012Role: text_match
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Additive effects of herbivory, nectar robbing and seed predation on male and female fitness components of the host plant <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2011OecologiaRole: text_match
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Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change

2011Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Impacts of climate disruption on avian species in the southern Rocky Mountains: a retroanalysis of the Gothic breeding bird survey and pilot point count surveys at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory weather stations

2011Role: text_match
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The effects of phenology on <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2011Role: text_match
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Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

2010J of EcologyRole: text_match
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Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of <i>Erythronium grandiflorum</i> (Glacier Lily; Liliaceae)

2010American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Effects of nectar robbing on pollen deposition and hummingbird-pollinator behavior in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2009Role: text_match
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Studies on the ecology of avian malaria in an alpine ecosystem

2009Role: text_match
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The effects of nutrient addition on floral characters and pollination in two subalpine plants, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> and <i>Linum lewisii</i>

2009Plant EcologyRole: text_match
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Variation in the impact of climate change on flowering phenology and abundance: an examination of two pairs of closely related wildflower species

2009American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match
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Does road dust affect reproduction of <i>Delphinium nelsonii</i> and <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2008Role: text_match
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Interactions between nectar robbers and seed predators mediated by a shared host plant, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2008OecologiaRole: text_match
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Pollinator shifts and the origin and loss of plant species

2008Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenRole: text_match
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Pollinator-mediate selection in Ipomopsis aggregata: does correlational selection explain floral phenotypes?

2008Role: text_match
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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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The effects of water and phosphorus on floral traits and nectar production of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2007Role: text_match
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Flight Performance and Competitive Displacement of Hummingbirds across Elevational Gradients

2006American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: pollinator
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Resource value affects territorial defense by Broad-tailed and Rufous hummingbirds

2006Journal of Field OrnithologyRole: text_match
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Effects of Interspecific Pollen Transfer (IPT) in a Specialist and a Generalist Flower

2005Role: text_match
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Nectar robbing in Ipomopsis aggregata: does high nectar production confer tolerance?

2005Role: text_match
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the influence of red-naped sapsuckers on willow bird communities

2005Role: text_match
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Adaptive speciation

2004Role: text_match
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Avian Diversity in Aspen and Conifer Forests :

2004Role: text_match
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Direct and indirect effects of pollinators and seed predators to selection on plant and floral traits

2004OikosRole: text_match
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Red-naped Sapsucker nest tree selection and effects on the willow breeding bird community

2004Role: text_match
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The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense

2004EcologyRole: text_match
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The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match
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Changes in flowering and abundance of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment

2003Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
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Impact of nectar robbing on estimates of pollen flow: conceptual predictions and emperical outcomes

2003EcologyRole: text_match
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Linking pollinator visitation rate and pollen receipt

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Pollen transfer by hummingbirds and bumblebees, and divergence of pollination modes in <i>Penstemon</i>

2003EvolutionRole: text_match
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Quality of food source affects female visitation and display rates of male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

2003CondorRole: text_match
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Predicting patterns of mating and potential hybridization from pollinator behavior

2002American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

2002OecologiaRole: text_match
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Volatile production by the buds and corollas of two sympatric, confamial plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Polemonium foliosissimum

2002Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match
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Consequences of nectar robbing for realized male function in a hummingbird-pollinated plant

2000EcologyRole: text_match
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Hummingbird foraging at experimental patches of flowers: evidence for weak risk-aversion

1998Journal of Avian BiologyRole: text_match
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Nectar Robbing in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>: Effects on Pollinator Behavior and Plant Fitness

1998OecologiaRole: text_match
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Foraging site preferences of rufous and broad-tailed hummingbirds

1994Role: text_match
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When do hummingbirds use torpor in nature?

1994Physiological ZoologyRole: text_match
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Effects of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in Delphinium nelsonii: implications for climate change

1991American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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The effect of floral abundance on feeder censuses of hummingbird populations

1991CondorRole: text_match
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Changes in broad-tailed hummingbird (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>) behavior after rufous hummingbird (<i>S. rufous</i>) migration through the Gothic Area, Gunnison County, Colorado

1987Role: text_match
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Spatial genetic heterogeneity in a population of the montane perennial plant Delphinium nelsonii

1987HeredityRole: text_match
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Roles of the wing whistle in the territorial behaviour of male broadtailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus)

1983Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Interactions of rufous hummingbirds (<i>Selasphorus rufus</i>) and broad-tailed hummingbirds (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>)

1982Role: text_match
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A behavioral study of male territoriality of broad-tailed hummingbirds (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>)

1980Role: text_match
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Competition for hummingbird pollination and sequential flowering in two Colorado wildflowers

1978EcologyRole: text_match
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The pollination ecology of Aquilegia elegantula and A. caerulea (Ranunculaceae) in Colorado

1978American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Implications of recaptures of broad-tailed hummingbirds banded in Colorado

1977AukRole: text_match
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Implications of recaptures of broad-tailed hummingbirds banded in Colorado

1977AukRole: text_match
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Food supply and nest timing of broad-tailed hummingbirds in the Rocky Mountains

1976CondorRole: text_match
student_paper

A project on a female broad-tailed hummingbird exhibiting territorial defence and coexistence with a different species, robins through habituation

1975Role: text_match
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The Timing of maternal behavior of the broad-tailed hummingbird preceding nest failure

1973Wilson BulletinRole: text_match
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Piracy of nesting materials from and by the broadtailed hummingbird

1972CondorRole: text_match