Green-throated Carib
Eulampis holosericeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spanish: Colibrí Caribeño Gorjiverde
The Green-throated Carib (Eulampis holosericeus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 5.7 g and its bill is 25.4 mm long. It lives in 18 countries, including Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, the US Virgin Islands, Saint Lucia and Barbados. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 5.7 g, about 6 paperclips
- Bill
- 25.4 mm
- Lives in
- Gardens & towns
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
- Genus Eulampis caribs
What Eulampis share: Caribs live on the islands of the Lesser Antilles and have down-curved bills.
Where it lives · 18 countries
- Puerto Rico
- Guadeloupe
- US Virgin Islands
- Saint Lucia
- Barbados
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Grenada
- Dominica
- Anguilla
- Martinique
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten
- British Virgin Islands
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Montserrat
- St Martin
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- St Barthelemy
Others in the genus Eulampis
- Purple-throated Carib Eulampis jugularis
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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