Hummingbirds of Chile

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

See Chile in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in Chile, 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 mangoes1 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes5 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona1 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees3 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds1 of 113

The biggest group here is the coquettes, with 5 species. No topazes, hermits, brilliants or mountain gems live here.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Chile11

Chile is 23rd of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.

Found only in Chile · 2

• Juan Fernandez FirecrownCritically endangeredArthur Grosset · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Chilean WoodstarCritically endangeredThibaud Aronson · CC BY-SA 4.0

Red List status

• Critically endangered 2
• Least concern 9

2 species here are threatened and 0 are near threatened; 2 of them live only in Chile.

• Juan Fernandez FirecrownCritically endangered · only in Chile
• Chilean WoodstarCritically endangered · only in Chile

Sizes

From the Peruvian Sheartail, 1.9 g, to the Giant Hummingbird, 20.2 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 3

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

• Red-tailed Comet uncertain
• Giant Hummingbird winter visitor
• Glittering-bellied Emerald rare visitor

All 11 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.