page_title: List of birds of Honduras
section_title: Hummingbirds
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Honduras / Hummingbirds
caption_attribution_description: Honduran Emerald (Amazilia luciae)
context_page_description: The avifauna of Honduras included a total of 766 species as of August 2015, according to La Asociación Hondureña de Ornitología. Between that date and July 2020, an additional 21 species have been added from Bird Checklists of the World and one as a result of a split.
  Of the 788 species listed here, one of them, the Honduran emerald, is endemic. Forty-eight are rare or accidental and five have been introduced by humans. Five species are hypothetical and a few have insufficient information to classify. Some of the "hypothetical" species have more recent eBird records with photographs. Two species have possibly been extirpated. Sixteen species are globally vulnerable or endangered.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
context_section_description: Order: Apodiformes   Family: Trochilidae
  Hummingbirds are small birds capable of hovering in mid-air due to the rapid flapping of their wings. They are the only birds that can fly backwards.
  White-necked jacobin, Florisuga mellivora
  Bronzy hermit, Glaucis aenea
  Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri
  Long-billed hermit, Phaethornis longirostris
  Stripe-throated hermit, Phaethornis striigularis
  Brown violetear, Colibri delphinae
  Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (The ASHO retains the pre-split name of green violetear)
  Purple-crowned fairy, Heliothryx barroti
  Green-breasted mango, Anthracothorax prevostii
  Black-crested coquette, Lophornis helenae
  Rivoli's hummingbird, Eugenes fulgens
  Long-billed starthroat, Heliomaster longirostris
  Plain-capped starthroat, Heliomaster constantii
  Green-throated mountain-gem, Lampornis viridipallens
  Green-breasted mountain-gem, Lampornis sybillae
  Amethyst-throated mountain-gem, Lampornis amethystinus
  Garnet-throated hummingbird, Lamprolaima rhami
  Slender sheartail, Doricha enicura
  Sparkling-tailed hummingbird, Tilmatura dupontii
  Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris
  Wine-throated hummingbird, Selasphorus ellioti
  Canivet's emerald, Cynanthus canivetii
  White-eared hummingbird, Basilinna leucotis
  Wedge-tailed sabrewing, Pampa curvipennis
  Emerald-chinned hummingbird, Abeillia abeillei
  Violet-headed hummingbird, Klais guimeti
  Violet sabrewing, Campylopterus hemileucurus
  Bronze-tailed plumeleteer, Chalybura urochrysia
  Crowned woodnymph, Thalurania colombica
  Snowcap, Microchera albocoronata
  Stripe-tailed hummingbird, Eupherusa eximia
  Scaly-breasted hummingbird, Phaeochroa cuvierii
  Green-fronted hummingbird, Leucolia viridifrons (A)
  Azure-crowned hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanocephala
  Blue-vented hummingbird, Saucerottia hoffmanni
  Berylline hummingbird, Saucerottia beryllina
  Blue-tailed hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanura
  Cinnamon hummingbird, Amazilia rutila
  Buff-bellied hummingbird, Amazilia yucatanensis (A)
  Rufous-tailed hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl
  Honduran emerald, Polyerata luciae (E) (Endangered)
  Blue-chested hummingbird, Polyerata amabilis
  White-bellied emerald, Chlorestes candida
  Blue-throated goldentail, Chlorestes eliciae
caption: Honduran emerald, Honduras' only endemic bird species
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