Hummingbirds of the British Virgin Islands

3 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit the British Virgin Islands.

See the British Virgin Islands in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in the British Virgin Islands, 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 mangoes2 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees0 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds1 of 113

The biggest group here is the mangoes, with 2 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• British Virgin Islands3

The British Virgin Islands is 35th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with 11 others. See them all.

Red List status

• Least concern 3

None of the species here is threatened.

Sizes

From the Antillean Crested Hummingbird, 3.0 g, to the Puerto Rican Mango, 5.8 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

All 3 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.