Hummingbirds of Panama

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

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Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits9 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes9 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes4 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants2 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems7 of 17
• Mellisugini bees6 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds21 of 113

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

Compared with other countries

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

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

Found only in Panama · 1

• Glow-throated HummingbirdEndangeredJohn Gerrard Keulemans · Public domain

Red List status

• Endangered 1
• Near threatened 2
• Least concern 56

1 species here is threatened and 2 are near threatened; 1 of them lives only in Panama.

• Glow-throated HummingbirdEndangered · only in Panama
• Violet-capped HummingbirdNear threatened
• Pirre HummingbirdNear threatened

Sizes

From the Scintillant Hummingbird, 2.2 g, to the White-tipped Sicklebill, 10.6 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 4

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

• Ruby-topaz Hummingbird rare visitor
• Black-crested Coquette rare visitor
• Plain-capped Starthroat rare visitor
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird winter visitor

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.