Hummingbirds of Grenada

5 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Grenada.

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Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes0 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits1 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes3 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees0 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds1 of 113

The biggest group here is the mangoes, with 3 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Grenada5

Grenada is 27th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and Jamaica. See them all.

Red List status

• Least concern 5

None of the species here is 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.

Visitors · 2

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

• Ruby-topaz Hummingbird rare visitor
• Purple-throated Carib rare visitor

All 5 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.