Hummingbirds of Uruguay

8 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Uruguay.

See Uruguay in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

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

• Florisuginae topazes1 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits0 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes1 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes1 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems1 of 17
• Mellisugini bees0 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds4 of 113

The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 4 species. No hermits, brilliants, Patagona or bees live here.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Uruguay8

Uruguay is 24th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.

Red List status

• Least concern 8

None of the species here is threatened.

Sizes

From the Glittering-bellied Emerald, 3.5 g, to the Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, 9.0 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

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

• Green-backed Firecrown rare visitor

All 8 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.