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Allen's Hummingbird

Selasphorus sasin
ALHU · Trochilidae · Hummingbirds
Grassland provisional · from avonet
2heard

Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) is a species of hummingbird that breeds in the western United States. It is one of seven species in the genus Selasphorus.

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mean confidence
4–4 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Allen's Hummingbird
Shravans14CC BY-SA 4.0
2Detections
2Days heard
0.51Mean confidence
2 AugFirst heard
23 AugLast heard
862Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

2 Aug 23 Aug

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home2 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-08-02 11:10
9 s
0.52
2026-08-23 19:57
9 s
0.51
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 2:00pm Archive