Wine-throated Hummingbird

Selasphorus ellioti (Ridgway, 1878)

Spanish: Zumbador Guatemalteco

The Wine-throated Hummingbird (Selasphorus ellioti) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 2.9 g and its bill is 14.8 mm long. It lives in Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

2.9 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

14.8 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, 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 · 4 countries

• Guatemala
• Mexico
• Honduras
• El Salvador

Others in the genus Selasphorus

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

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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