Species group · Birds
Hummingbirds
WAnimals has 11 species of hummingbird, in the family Trochilidae.
- 11 species
- 1 family
- 24 countries
- 114 parks
- Weight
- 2 g – 24 g
- Length
- 7 cm – 25 cm
- Lifespan
- 5 – 8 years
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 11.
All 11 species of hummingbirds on WAnimals
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Least ConcernRuby-Throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
12 countries40 parks
Least ConcernSword-billed Hummingbird
Ensifera ensifera
7 countries21 parks
Least ConcernShining Sunbeam
Aglaeactis cupripennis
7 countries4 parks
Least ConcernPurple-throated Mountain-gem
Lampornis calolaemus
3 countries5 parks
Least Concern
Crimson Topaz
Topaza pella
9 countries13 parks
Least Concern
Anna's Hummingbird
Calypte anna
3 countries20 parks
Least Concern
Giant Hummingbird
Patagona gigas
7 countries26 parks
Least Concern
Volcano Hummingbird
Selasphorus flammula
2 countries9 parks
Least Concern
Lucifer Hummingbird
Calothorax lucifer
2 countries6 parks
Critically Endangered
Juan Fernandez Firecrown
Sephanoides fernandensis
1 country1 park
Endangered
Marvelous Spatuletail
Loddigesia mirabilis
1 country
Conservation status
9 Least Concern1 Critically Endangered1 Endangered
2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Where they live
Recorded in 24 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Where to see them
Did you know…?
Its heart can beat up to 1,200 times a minute in flight.
It migrates non-stop for more than 800 km across the Gulf of Mexico.
It feeds on nectar, taking small insects for protein.
The only bird whose bill is longer than its own body; it has to perch with the bill pointing skywards.
It is the only bird in the world whose bill is longer than its body, and it cannot preen with it: it uses its feet to clean its plumage, something no other hummingbird needs to do.
At rest it holds its bill pointing steeply upwards so as not to overbalance, a posture that makes it unmistakable even in silhouette.
Its iridescence is on the rump, not the throat: from the front it looks like a plain brown hummingbird, and only when it turns does it show a flash of copper and violet.
From Shining Sunbeam
It lives above 4,000 metres at some points in the Andes, where the night-time temperature drops below zero all year round, and it depends on nightly torpor to survive.
From Shining Sunbeam