Hummingbirds of Jamaica

5 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Jamaica, and 3 of them are found nowhere else on Earth.

See Jamaica in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes0 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits0 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes1 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees2 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds2 of 113

The biggest group here is the bees, with 2 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Jamaica5

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

Found only in Jamaica · 3

• Jamaican MangoLeast concernCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Red-billed StreamertailLeast concernCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Black-billed StreamertailLeast concerndominique sherony · CC BY-SA 2.0

Red List status

• Least concern 5

None of the species here is threatened.

Sizes

From the Vervain Hummingbird, 2.4 g, to the Jamaican Mango, 8.3 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

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

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird 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.