Crowned Woodnymph

Thalurania colombica (Bourcier, 1843)

Spanish: Zafiro Coronado

The Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 4.5 g and its bill is 20.4 mm long. It lives in 10 countries, including Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Honduras. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

4.5 g, about 4 paperclips

Bill

20.4 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, decreasing

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
4. Genus Thalurania woodnymphs

Where it lives · 10 countries

• Costa Rica
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Panama
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Guatemala
• Venezuela
• Belize
• Peru

Others in the genus Thalurania

• Long-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania watertonii
• Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata
• Violet-capped Woodnymph Thalurania glaucopis

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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