Sonoran Desert Museum - Broad-billed Hummingbird
Here is an Arizona riddle for you — when is a museum not a museum? When it is a zoo. That is the mystique of the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. It is, in fact, a zoo featuring the plants and animals from the Sonoran Desert — that part of our country encompassing the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix area) and south into Mexico. My favorite part of the museum is the hummingbird aviary. Yes, an entire enclosure for hummingbirds! These tiny jewels offer amazing flying acrobatic skills — which makes them tough to photograph except when they land on a perch. Next up is a Broad-billed Hummingbird. which is found in the lower mountain canyons and in the mesquite bosques of the larger washes and rivers. Habitats also include the thorn forest and thornscrub of southern Sonora.
Size: 4152px × 4152px
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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