Hummingbirds of Venezuela
104 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit Venezuela, and 6 of them are found nowhere else on Earth. Only Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru have more species of their own.
Which hummingbirds
How many species of each group live in Venezuela, out of all the species in that group. Bar length shows the group’s size worldwide.
The biggest group here is the emeralds, with 31 species. No Patagona live here.
Compared with other countries
Venezuela is 4th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds. See them all.
Found only in Venezuela · 6
- No free photo yetMerida SunangelLeast concern
- No free photo yetVenezuelan SylphVulnerable
White-bearded HelmetcrestNear threatenedCharles Parzudaki · Public domain
Merida StarfrontletLeast concernAndres Cuervo · CC BY 2.0
Scissor-tailed HummingbirdEndangeredJohn Gould / William Matthew Hart · Public domain
Green-tailed EmeraldLeast concernAitor · CC BY 4.0
Red List status
- Endangered 2
- Vulnerable 1
- Near threatened 3
- Least concern 98
3 species here are threatened and 3 are near threatened; 3 of them live only in Venezuela.
- Perija StarfrontletEndangered
- Scissor-tailed HummingbirdEndangered · only in Venezuela
- Venezuelan SylphVulnerable · only in Venezuela
- White-bearded HelmetcrestNear threatened · only in Venezuela
- Perija MetaltailNear threatened
- White-tailed SabrewingNear threatened
Sizes
From the Gorgeted Woodstar, 2.0 g, to the Crimson Topaz, 12.1 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.
Visitors · 1
These species don’t breed in Venezuela; they come for the winter, pass through on migration, or turn up rarely.
- Sapphire-vented Puffleg uncertain
All 104 species
Florisuginae topazes · 3
Phaethornithinae hermits · 16
- Rufous-breasted Hermit
- Band-tailed Barbthroat
- Pale-tailed Barbthroat
- White-bearded Hermit
- Green Hermit
- Straight-billed Hermit
- Long-billed Hermit
- Long-tailed Hermit
- Great-billed Hermit
- Pale-bellied Hermit
- Streak-throated Hermit
- Little Hermit
- Stripe-throated Hermit
- Gray-chinned Hermit
- Reddish Hermit
- Sooty-capped Hermit
Polytminae mangoes · 15
- Green-fronted Lancebill
- Blue-fronted Lancebill
- Geoffroy's Daggerbill
- Sparkling Violetear
- Brown Violetear
- Lesser Violetear
- Black-eared Fairy
- White-tailed Goldenthroat
- Tepui Goldenthroat
- Green-tailed Goldenthroat
- Fiery-tailed Awlbill
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
- Black-throated Mango
- Green-throated Mango
- Green-breasted Mango
Lesbiini coquettes · 17
- Orange-throated Sunangel
- Longuemare's Sunangel
- Merida Sunangel only here
- Black-bellied Thorntail
- Racket-tipped Thorntail
- Tufted Coquette
- Spangled Coquette
- Butterfly Coquette
- Peacock Coquette
- Speckled Hummingbird
- Long-tailed Sylph
- Venezuelan Sylph only here
- Purple-backed Thornbill
- Bronze-tailed Thornbill
- White-bearded Helmetcrest only here
- Perija Metaltail
- Tyrian Metaltail
Heliantheini brilliants · 16
- Glowing Puffleg
- Coppery-bellied Puffleg
- Sapphire-vented Puffleg uncertain
- Bronzy Inca
- Collared Inca
- Green Inca
- Perija Starfrontlet
- Merida Starfrontlet only here
- Blue-throated Starfrontlet
- Mountain Velvetbreast
- Sword-billed Hummingbird
- Buff-tailed Coronet
- White-booted Racket-tail
- Velvet-browed Brilliant
- Gould's Jewelfront
- Violet-fronted Brilliant
Lampornithini mountain gems · 3
Mellisugini bees · 3
Trochilini emeralds · 31
- Blue-tailed Emerald
- Red-billed Emerald
- Short-tailed Emerald
- Narrow-tailed Emerald
- Green-tailed Emerald only here
- Coppery Emerald
- Violet-headed Hummingbird
- Gray-breasted Sabrewing
- Rufous-breasted Sabrewing
- Buff-breasted Sabrewing
- Lazuline Sabrewing
- White-tailed Sabrewing
- White-vented Plumeleteer
- Crowned Woodnymph
- Fork-tailed Woodnymph
- Buffy Hummingbird
- Steely-vented Hummingbird
- Green-bellied Hummingbird
- Copper-tailed Hummingbird
- Copper-rumped Hummingbird
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
- Versicolored Emerald
- Shining-green Hummingbird
- Golden-tailed Sapphire
- White-chested Emerald
- Plain-bellied Emerald
- Glittering-throated Emerald
- Sapphire-spangled Emerald
- Rufous-throated Sapphire
- White-chinned Sapphire
- Blue-chinned Sapphire
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.