Rufous Hummingbird

Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin, JF, 1788)

Spanish: Zumbador Canelo

The Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 3.5 g and its bill is 20.4 mm long. It lives in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Its IUCN Red List status is Near threatened, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.5 g, about 4 paperclips

Bill

20.4 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Near threatened, decreasing

Its place in the family

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

What Selasphorus share: Includes some of the longest-migrating hummingbirds, such as the Rufous Hummingbird.

Where it lives · 6 countries

• United States
• Canada
• Mexico
• Bahamas rare visitor
• St Pierre and Miquelon rare visitor
• Turks and Caicos Islands rare visitor

Others in the genus Selasphorus

• Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope
• Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus
• Bumblebee Hummingbird Selasphorus heloisa
• Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti
• Volcano Hummingbird Selasphorus flammula
• Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla
• Glow-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ardens

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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