Hummingbirds of Bolivia

77 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Bolivia, and 2 of them are found nowhere else on Earth.

See Bolivia in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits10 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes12 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes20 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants12 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona1 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems2 of 17
• Mellisugini bees3 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds16 of 113

The biggest group here is the coquettes, with 20 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Honduras42

Bolivia is 6th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.

Found only in Bolivia · 2

• Coppery ThorntailData deficientJohn Gould / Henry Constantine Richter · Public domain
• Black-hooded SunbeamLeast concernjose_balderrama · CC0

Red List status

• Near threatened 1
• Least concern 75
• Data deficient 1

0 species here are threatened and 1 is near threatened.

• Dot-eared CoquetteNear threatened

Sizes

From the Reddish Hermit, 2.4 g, to the Giant Hummingbird, 20.2 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 2

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

• Green-tailed Goldenthroat rare visitor
• Green-and-white Hummingbird rare visitor

All 77 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.