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Genus: Amazilia (5 species)

Amazilia is the largest genus of hummingbirds, which are medium-sized with a medium-sized slightly decurved bill, and plain or slightly forked tails. Amazilia are usually seen outside of the forest.


Mangrove Hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) Male Endangered Range: MA: Costa Rica Caldera, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Mangrove Hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) Female Endangered Range: MA: Costa Rica Tivives, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Honduran Emerald (Amazilia luciae) Vulnerable Range: MA: Honduras Honduras
Photograph by Dominic Sherony Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Cinnamon Hummingbird (Amazilia rutila corallirostris) Range: MA: nw Mexico to Costa Rica San Rafael de Alajuela, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) Range: MA, SA: c Mexico to Venezuela and w Ecuador Hotel Tinamu, Manizales, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) Range: MA, SA: c Mexico to Venezuela and w Ecuador Cauca Valley, Colombia
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A common garden species normally easy to identify with the rufous tail, red bill, and constant chattering.
Male in flight.
From front.
Active nest.


Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanensis chalconota) Range: MA: s USA, e Mexico through Yucatán Pen. Hildago County, Texas, United States
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© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba