Hummingbirds of Dominica

4 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Dominica.

See Dominica in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in Dominica, 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 emeralds2 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
• Dominica4

Dominica is 30th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with 4 others. See them all.

Red List status

• Near threatened 1
• Least concern 3

0 species here are threatened and 1 is near threatened.

• Blue-headed HummingbirdNear threatened

Sizes

From the Antillean Crested Hummingbird, 3.0 g, to the Purple-throated Carib, 8.9 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

All 4 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.