Purple-throated Carib
Eulampis jugularis (Linnaeus, 1766)
Spanish: Colibrí Caribeño Gorjimorado
The Purple-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 8.9 g and its bill is 27.5 mm long. It lives in 9 countries, including Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Martinique and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 8.9 g, about 9 paperclips
- Bill
- 27.5 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
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 · 16 countries
- Guadeloupe
- Saint Lucia
- Dominica
- Martinique
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Montserrat
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Antigua and Barbuda
- St Martin rare visitor
- Puerto Rico rare visitor
- US Virgin Islands rare visitor
- Anguilla rare visitor
- Barbados rare visitor
- St Barthelemy rare visitor
- Grenada rare visitor
Others in the genus Eulampis
- Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus
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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