An adult female Broad-Billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostis) sweetly eyes me from her perch. She is a lover of arid canyons near streamside groves and migrates from Mexico to southeastern Arizona.

In Arizona, she occupies a small niche population and charms the occasional backyard birder with her amazing blue-green plummage. Females of this species are notable for constructing nests low to the ground and do not decorate them with lichen, a common nest characteristic of many other hummingbird species.