Hummingbirds World

About & credits

This explorer shows the 363 hummingbird species (family Trochilidae) recognized in the eBird/Clements taxonomy. Each shape is one species; open one to see its photo and details. Every species also has its own page: see the list of all 363 species.

Made by

Lia Guttman (eBird profile). Photos credited to Lia Guttman are her own, shared under CC BY 4.0: you're welcome to use them, with credit.

Contact

Spotted a mistake, or have a photo of a species you'd like to see here? Write to Lia at lia@hummingbirds.world. If you send a photo, say how you'd like to be credited: it's shown with your name, and you keep all rights to it. By sending it, you agree to it being shown on this site. Please send only photos you took yourself, at full size if you can.

Data sources

Species list and names

eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, via the eBird API (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). English and Spanish (Mexico) names come from the same source. IOC names, where they differ, are from the IOC World Bird List v15 (Gill, Donsker & Rasmussen, eds.).

Subfamilies and tribes

Dickinson, E.C. & Remsen, J.V. Jr. (eds.) 2013. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 4th ed., vol. 1. Aves Press.
McGuire, J.A. et al. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds. Current Biology 24: 910–916. The informal clade names (topazes, hermits, mangoes, coquettes, brilliants, Patagona, mountain gems, bees, emeralds) follow this paper.

Countries

BirdLife International DataZone country lists, checked against eBird records from the eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0), accessed through the GBIF.org API. Six rare species use ranges from the published literature.

Weight, bill, habitat, movement

AVONET: Tobias, J.A. et al. 2022. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Recently split species use the values of the species they were split from.

Conservation status and trend

BirdLife International (the IUCN Red List authority for birds), and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species via GBIF where a species doesn't match a BirdLife species one-to-one.

Photos

From Wikimedia Commons and, where Commons has none, openly licensed photos on iNaturalist. A few species with no free photo show a photo embedded from the Macaulay Library, credited inside the photo. Each photo's author, license and original are linked on its species card. Photos are shown resized, never cropped.

Map

Natural Earth (public domain), via the world-atlas package.

Notes on groups

The short "What they share" notes were written for this site and checked by Lia Guttman. The weight, bill, habitat, country and status figures beside them are calculated from the data above.

3D model

The Red-tailed Comet that sometimes flies past: Red Tailed Comet Idle Animation by burak.dag.u9, CC BY 4.0. Shown with Google's model-viewer (Apache 2.0).

The bird on the Anatomy page: Swallow-tailed Hummingbird by gelmi.com.br, CC BY 4.0.

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