Hummingbirds of Costa Rica

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

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Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits6 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes6 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes4 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants1 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems7 of 17
• Mellisugini bees4 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds23 of 113

The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 23 species. No Patagona live here.

Compared with other countries

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

Costa Rica is 9th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.

Found only in Costa Rica · 2

• Coppery-headed EmeraldLeast concernMeegsC · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Mangrove HummingbirdEndangeredJorge Obando Nature Photo · CC BY-SA 2.0

Red List status

• Endangered 1
• Least concern 50
• Data deficient 1

1 species here is threatened and 0 are near threatened; 1 of them lives only in Costa Rica.

• Mangrove HummingbirdEndangered · only in Costa Rica

Sizes

From the Scintillant Hummingbird, 2.2 g, to the White-tipped Sicklebill, 10.6 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

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

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird winter visitor

All 52 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.