Hummingbirds of Nicaragua

35 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Nicaragua.

See Nicaragua in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in Nicaragua, 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 gems5 of 17
• Mellisugini bees2 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds18 of 113

The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 18 species. No brilliants or Patagona live here.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Nicaragua35

Nicaragua is 13th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with Suriname. See them all.

Red List status

• Least concern 34
• Data deficient 1

None of the species here is threatened.

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 · 1

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

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird winter visitor

All 35 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.