Garnet-throated Hummingbird
Lamprolaima rhami (Lesson, RP, 1839)
Spanish: Colibrí Multicolor
The Garnet-throated Hummingbird (Lamprolaima rhami) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems). It weighs about 7.8 g and its bill is 21.1 mm long. It lives in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.8 g, about 8 paperclips
- Bill
- 21.1 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Lampornithini mountain gems
- Genus Lamprolaima
Where it lives · 4 countries
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems)
- White-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis castaneoventris
- Purple-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis calolaemus
- White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus
- Blue-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis clemenciae
- Amethyst-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis amethystinus
- Green-breasted Mountain-gem Lampornis sybillae
- Green-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis viridipallens
- Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis
- Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer
- Stripe-breasted Starthroat Heliomaster squamosus
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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