Hummingbirds of Mexico

59 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Mexico, and 14 of them are found nowhere else on Earth. Only Colombia and Brazil have more species of their own.

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Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits3 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes3 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes2 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems7 of 17
• Mellisugini bees15 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds28 of 113

The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 28 species. No brilliants or Patagona live here.

Compared with other countries

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

Mexico is 7th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with Panama. See them all.

Found only in Mexico · 14

• Mexican HermitLeast concernAdam Jackson · CC0
• Short-crested CoquetteCritically endangeredAndre Sebastian · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Mexican SheartailNear threatenedAdrianh Martínez Orozco · CC BY 4.0
• No free photo yetBeautiful HummingbirdLeast concern
• Bumblebee HummingbirdLeast concernRon Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
• Dusky HummingbirdLeast concernLeonel Roget · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Tres Marias HummingbirdNear threatenedJuan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Turquoise-crowned HummingbirdLeast concernFrancesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Golden-crowned EmeraldLeast concernFrancesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Cozumel EmeraldLeast concerndfaulder · CC BY 2.0
• Xantus's HummingbirdLeast concernCaleb Putnam · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Mexican WoodnymphVulnerableMoore Laboratory · CC BY 2.0
• White-tailed HummingbirdNear threatenedAndre Sebastian · CC0
• Blue-capped HummingbirdEndangeredGary Abner Garcia-Garcia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Red List status

• Critically endangered 1
• Endangered 1
• Vulnerable 1
• Near threatened 4
• Least concern 52

3 species here are threatened and 4 are near threatened; 6 of them live only in Mexico.

• Short-crested CoquetteCritically endangered · only in Mexico
• Blue-capped HummingbirdEndangered · only in Mexico
• Mexican WoodnymphVulnerable · only in Mexico
• Mexican SheartailNear threatened · only in Mexico
• Rufous HummingbirdNear threatened
• Tres Marias HummingbirdNear threatened · only in Mexico
• White-tailed HummingbirdNear threatened · only in Mexico

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 · 4

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

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird winter visitor, passage migrant
• Calliope Hummingbird winter visitor, passage migrant
• Rufous Hummingbird winter visitor
• Allen's Hummingbird winter visitor, passage migrant

All 59 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.