Hummingbirds of Cuba

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

See Cuba in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in Cuba, 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 bees2 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds1 of 113

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

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Cuba3

Cuba is 35th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with 11 others. See them all.

Found only in Cuba · 1

• Bee HummingbirdNear threatenedCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

Red List status

• Near threatened 1
• Least concern 2

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

• Bee HummingbirdNear threatened · only in Cuba

Sizes

From the Bee Hummingbird, 2.2 g, to the Cuban Emerald, 3.2 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

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

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird passage migrant

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.