Costa's Hummingbird
Calypte costae (Bourcier, 1839)
Spanish: Colibrí Cabeza Violeta
The Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 3.1 g and its bill is 19.2 mm long. It lives in the United States and Mexico. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a increasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.1 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 19.2 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Migrates
- Red List status
- Least concern, increasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Mellisugini bees
- Genus Calypte
What Calypte share: Males have a glittering crown, and their glittering throat feathers stretch out into points at the sides.
Where it lives · 3 countries
- United States
- Mexico
- Canada rare visitor
Others in the genus Calypte
- Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
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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