Hummingbirds of French Guiana
28 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit French Guiana.
See French Guiana in the explorer
Which hummingbirds
How many species of each group live in French Guiana, out of all the species in that group. Bar length shows the group’s size worldwide.
The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 9 species. No brilliants, Patagona or mountain gems live here.
Compared with other countries
French Guiana is 16th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.
Red List status
- Least concern 28
None of the species here is threatened.
Sizes
From the Tufted Coquette, 2.3 g, to the Crimson Topaz, 12.1 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.
All 28 species
Florisuginae topazes · 2
Phaethornithinae hermits · 7
- Rufous-breasted Hermit
- Sooty Barbthroat
- Straight-billed Hermit
- Long-tailed Hermit
- Great-billed Hermit
- Little Hermit
- Reddish Hermit
Polytminae mangoes · 7
- Black-eared Fairy
- White-tailed Goldenthroat
- Green-tailed Goldenthroat
- Fiery-tailed Awlbill
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
- Black-throated Mango
- Green-throated Mango
Lesbiini coquettes · 2
Mellisugini bees · 1
Trochilini emeralds · 9
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.