Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
Chrysolampis mosquitus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spanish: Colibrí Rubí
The Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 3.9 g and its bill is 20.3 mm long. It lives in 13 countries, including Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Brazil, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and Curaçao. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.9 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 20.3 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Migrates
- Red List status
- Least concern
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
- Genus Chrysolampis
Where it lives · 16 countries
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Colombia
- Brazil
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Curaçao
- Aruba
- Venezuela
- Guyana
- French Guiana
- Suriname
- Peru
- Bolivia
- Paraguay
- Panama rare visitor
- Argentina rare visitor
- Grenada rare visitor
Nearest relatives, in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes)
- Fiery-tailed Awlbill Avocettula recurvirostris
- Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango
- Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae
- Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis
- Tepui Goldenthroat Polytmus milleri
- Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula
- White-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus guainumbi
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx auritus
- Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis
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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