Hummingbirds of Honduras

42 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Honduras, and 1 of them is found nowhere else on Earth.

See Honduras in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits4 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes4 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes1 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems7 of 17
• Mellisugini bees4 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds21 of 113

The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 21 species. No brilliants or Patagona live here.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Honduras42

Honduras is 10th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.

Found only in Honduras · 1

• Honduran EmeraldVulnerableDominic Sherony · CC BY-SA 2.0

Red List status

• Vulnerable 1
• Least concern 41

1 species here is threatened and 0 are near threatened; 1 of them lives only in Honduras.

• Honduran EmeraldVulnerable · only in Honduras

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 Honduras; they come for the winter, pass through on migration, or turn up rarely.

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird winter visitor
• Buff-bellied Hummingbird rare visitor
• Blue-chested Hummingbird rare visitor

All 42 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.