Hummingbirds of Guyana
39 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Guyana.
Which hummingbirds
How many species of each group live in Guyana, out of all the species in that group. Bar length shows the group’s size worldwide.
The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 12 species. No Patagona live here.
Compared with other countries
Guyana is 11th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.
Red List status
- Least concern 39
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.
Visitors · 1
These species don’t breed in Guyana; they come for the winter, pass through on migration, or turn up rarely.
- Versicolored Emerald rare visitor
All 39 species
Florisuginae topazes · 2
Phaethornithinae hermits · 8
- Rufous-breasted Hermit
- Pale-tailed Barbthroat
- Straight-billed Hermit
- Long-tailed Hermit
- Streak-throated Hermit
- Little Hermit
- Reddish Hermit
- Sooty-capped Hermit
Polytminae mangoes · 11
- Blue-fronted Lancebill
- Sparkling Violetear
- Brown Violetear
- Black-eared Fairy
- White-tailed Goldenthroat
- Tepui Goldenthroat
- Green-tailed Goldenthroat
- Fiery-tailed Awlbill
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
- Black-throated Mango
- Green-throated Mango
Lesbiini coquettes · 3
Heliantheini brilliants · 1
Lampornithini mountain gems · 1
Mellisugini bees · 1
Trochilini emeralds · 12
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.