Hummingbirds of El Salvador

24 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit El Salvador.

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Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits0 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes3 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems6 of 17
• Mellisugini bees4 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds10 of 113

The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 10 species. No hermits, coquettes, brilliants or Patagona live here.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• El Salvador24

El Salvador is 18th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.

Red List status

• Least concern 24

None of the species here is threatened.

Sizes

From the Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird, 2.2 g, to the Violet Sabrewing, 9.7 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 3

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

• White-necked Jacobin rare visitor
• Brown Violetear rare visitor
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird winter visitor

All 24 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.