Hummingbirds of the Dominican Republic

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

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Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in the Dominican Republic, 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 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
• Dominican Republic4

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

Red List status

• Least concern 4

None of the species here is threatened.

Sizes

From the Vervain Hummingbird, 2.4 g, to the Hispaniolan Mango, 5.8 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

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

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird rare visitor

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.