Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Amazilia yucatanensis (Cabot, S, 1845)
Spanish: Colibrí Vientre Canelo
The Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanensis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.9 g and its bill is 23.7 mm long. It lives in the United States, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.9 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 23.7 mm
- Lives in
- Woodland
- 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 Amazilia emeralds
Where it lives · 5 countries
- United States
- Mexico
- Belize
- Guatemala
- Honduras rare visitor
Others in the genus Amazilia
- Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Honduran Emerald Amazilia luciae
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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