Antillean Crested Hummingbird
Orthorhyncus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spanish: Colibrí Crestado
The Antillean Crested Hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 15.7 mm long. It lives in 18 countries, including Guadeloupe, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.0 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 15.7 mm
- Lives in
- Gardens & towns
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Orthorhyncus
What Orthorhyncus share: Males have a pointed crest.
Where it lives · 19 countries
- Guadeloupe
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Puerto Rico
- US Virgin Islands
- Montserrat
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Dominica
- Martinique
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Anguilla
- Sint Maarten
- British Virgin Islands
- St Martin
- St Barthelemy
- United States rare visitor
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Trochilini (emeralds)
- Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Abeillia abeillei
- Green-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi
- Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti
- Purple-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis loddigesii
- Rufous Sabrewing Pampa rufa
- Santa Marta Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps
- Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis
- Tolima Blossomcrown Anthocephala berlepschi
- Xantus's Hummingbird Basilinna xantusii
- Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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