Hummingbirds of Suriname
35 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Suriname.
Which hummingbirds
How many species of each group live in Suriname, out of all the species in that group. Bar length shows the group’s size worldwide.
The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 11 species. No Patagona live here.
Compared with other countries
Suriname is 13th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with Nicaragua. See them all.
Red List status
- Least concern 35
None of the species here is threatened.
Sizes
From the Tufted Coquette, 2.3 g, to the Crimson Topaz, 12.1 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.
Visitors · 2
These species don’t breed in Suriname; they come for the winter, pass through on migration, or turn up rarely.
- Sooty-capped Hermit rare visitor
- Copper-tailed Hummingbird rare visitor
All 35 species
Florisuginae topazes · 2
Phaethornithinae hermits · 8
- Rufous-breasted Hermit
- Pale-tailed Barbthroat
- Straight-billed Hermit
- Long-tailed Hermit
- Great-billed Hermit
- Little Hermit
- Reddish Hermit
- Sooty-capped Hermit rare visitor
Polytminae mangoes · 9
- Brown Violetear
- Horned Sungem
- Black-eared Fairy
- White-tailed Goldenthroat
- Green-tailed Goldenthroat
- Fiery-tailed Awlbill
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
- Black-throated Mango
- Green-throated Mango
Lesbiini coquettes · 2
Heliantheini brilliants · 1
Lampornithini mountain gems · 1
Mellisugini bees · 1
Trochilini emeralds · 11
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.