CRITICALLY ENDANGERED HUMMINGBIRD SPECIES

50% CHANCE OF EXTINCTION WITHIN 10 YEARS

Gorgeted Puffleg 

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eriocnemis isabellae 
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)

The Gorgeted Puffleg is a hummingbird species that was recently qualified as Critically Endangered because it is known from a single location and has an extremely small area of occupancy within which habitat quality is continuing to decline owing to conversion for agriculture (particularly coca cultivation). It is endemic to Colombia.  Its population is about 250 - 999. 

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org

Dusky Starfrontlet

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Coeligena orina 
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)

The Dusky Starfrontlet is a hummingbird species that have an extremely small and declining population. For this reason, it qualifies as Critically Endangered. It is a restricted-range species, endemic to West Andes of Colombia. Their population size is about 50 - 249.

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org

Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Lepidopyga lilliae 
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)

The Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird has a very small range and rarity of this species suggest that its population is extremely small and that the population size at each of the known locations is tiny.
Its habitat, and by inference the population, have undergone a considerable decline that may be continuing. This combination of factors leads to classification as Critically Endangered.

The Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird is a restricted-range species that is endemic to the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Its population size is about 50 - 249.

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org

Short-crested Coquette   

CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)

The Short-crested Coquette is a hummingbird species that is only known from along one road and apparently occupies an extremely small range. Combined with habitat destruction and degradation, this qualifies the species as Critically Endangered.

However, surveys may find the species to be more widespread, which could result in downlisting to Endangered. It is found only in Mexico, in the extremely restricted range of a 25 km (16 mi) stretch of the Atoyac-Paraíso-Puerto del Gallo road in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico, north-west of Acapulco. Its population size is about 250 - 999.

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org
en.wikipedia.org

Juan Fernández Firecrown

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Sephanoides fernandensis 
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)
The Juan Fernández Firecrown is a hummingbird found today solely on Isla Róbinson Crusoe, one of a three-island archipelago belonging to Chile. It is non-migratory and shares the island with its smaller relative the Green-backed Firecrown.

This species has an extremely small range, restricted to a single island, where habitat loss, predation by introduced mammals and possibly competition are causing continuing declines. It consequently qualifies as Critically Endangered. Population size is 490 - 2000.

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org
en.wikipedia.org

Black-breasted Puffleg

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eriocnemis nigrivestis
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)

The Black-breasted Puffleg is a hummingbird species that has a very small range, being known with certainty only from two locations. Its small subpopulations are suspected to suffer ongoing declines owing to deforestation within a severely fragmented habitat and increasing impacts of climate change.

Consequently, it qualifies as Critically Endangered. It is hummingbird native to Ecuador. Its population size is about 140 - 180. 

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org

Turquoise-throated Puffleg 

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eriocnemis godini
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Possibly extinct)

The Turquoise-throated Puffleg, also known as Godin's Puffleg is a hummingbird species that have not been recorded since the nineteenth century (only the type-specimen taken in 1850 has any locality information), the habitat at the type locality has been almost completely destroyed, and searches specifically for this species in the area in 1980 failed.

However, it cannot yet be presumed to be Extinct because there was an unconfirmed record in 1976, and further searches of remnant habitat are required. Any remaining population is likely to be tiny, and for these reasons, it is treated as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct). It is found in Ecuador. Its population size is about 1 - 49.

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org
en.wikipedia.org

Colourful Puffleg 

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eriocnemis mirabilis  
CONSERVATION STATUS: Critically Endangered (Population Decreasing)

The Colourful Puffleg is a hummingbird species that is now known from four locations, it still has a very small range in which habitat fragmentation is severe owing to small-scale logging and cultivation.

A re-evaluation of its range size using a Minimum Convex Polygon means that the species now qualifies as Endangered. It is endemic to Colombia. Its population size is about 250 - 999.

SOURCE: 
datazone.birdlife.org

Chilean Woodstar

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eulidia yarrellii      
CONSERVATION STATUS: Endangered  (Population decreasing)

The Chilean Woodstar is a species of hummingbird that is classified as Critically Endangered based on evidence that it has undergone an extremely rapid population decline. Urgent research and targeted conservation actions are now required to understand, halt and reverse this decline.

It is restricted to northernmost Chile with reports from southern Peru. Its population size is about 270 - 395.

SOURCE:  
datazone.birdlife.org