Hummingbirds of the Bahamas

7 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit the Bahamas, and 1 of them is found nowhere else on Earth.

See the Bahamas in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in the Bahamas, out of all the species in that group. Bar length shows the group’s size worldwide.

• Florisuginae topazes0 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits0 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes0 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees5 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds2 of 113

The biggest group here is the bees, with 5 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Bahamas7

The Bahamas is 25th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with Puerto Rico. See them all.

Found only in the Bahamas · 1

• Inagua WoodstarLeast concernM.R. Perry · CC BY 4.0

Red List status

• Near threatened 2
• Least concern 4
• Extinct 1

0 species here are threatened and 2 are near threatened.

• Bee HummingbirdNear threatened
• Rufous HummingbirdNear threatened

Sizes

From the Bee Hummingbird, 2.2 g, to the Rufous Hummingbird, 3.5 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 4

These species don’t breed in the Bahamas; they come for the winter, pass through on migration, or turn up rarely.

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird passage migrant
• Bee Hummingbird rare visitor
• Rufous Hummingbird rare visitor
• Brace's Emerald extinct here

All 7 species

Sources

Countries and how each species uses them: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. The count includes every species on the country’s list, as the explorer’s map does. Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Red List status: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.