Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Spanish: Colibrí Garganta Rubí

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 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 20.7 mm long. It lives in 12 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala. 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

20.7 mm

Lives in

Woodland

Moves

Migrates

Red List status

Least concern, increasing

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Mellisugini bees
4. Genus Archilochus

What Archilochus share: Two species, the Ruby-throated and the Black-chinned Hummingbird, and both migrate. Some Ruby-throats fly nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 hours over open water.

Where it lives · 18 countries

• United States
• Canada
• Mexico
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Belize
• El Salvador
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Bahamas
• Cuba
• Bermuda rare visitor
• Cayman Islands rare visitor
• St Pierre and Miquelon rare visitor
• Dominican Republic rare visitor
• Haiti rare visitor
• Jamaica rare visitor

Others in the genus Archilochus

• Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri

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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