Hummingbirds of Puerto Rico

7 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Puerto Rico, and 2 of them are found nowhere else on Earth.

See Puerto Rico in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in Puerto Rico, 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 mangoes4 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees1 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds2 of 113

The biggest group here is the mangoes, with 4 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Puerto Rico7

Puerto Rico is 25th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with the Bahamas. See them all.

Found only in Puerto Rico · 2

• Green MangoLeast concernWich’yanan L · CC BY 4.0
• Puerto Rican EmeraldLeast concernKatka Nemčoková · CC BY-SA 3.0

Red List status

• Least concern 7

None of the species here is threatened.

Sizes

From the Vervain Hummingbird, 2.4 g, to the Purple-throated Carib, 8.9 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

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

• Purple-throated Carib rare visitor

All 7 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.