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Cuban Emerald

The Cuban Emerald are hummingbird species locally known as zun-zun, is found in a wide range of semi-open habitats in Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and the Western Bahamas.

Saw-Billed Hermit

The Saw-billed Hermit is a large, strikingly patterned hummingbird from southeastern Brazil. It is one of the longest and heaviest hummingbirds. 

Empress Brilliant

The Empress Brilliant, a South American hummingbird species in the Andean cloud forest in northwester Ecuador and western Colombia is also known as Empress Eugenie's Hummingbird.

Velvet-Purple Coronet

The Velvet-purple Coronet is a striking, medium-size hummingbird species found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Calliope Hummingbird

The Calliope Hummingbird is the smallest bird in North America. It is native to the United States and Canada. It has a western breeding range mainly from California to British Columbia, and migrates to the Southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America for its wintering grounds.

Violet-Tailed Sylph

The Violet-tailed Sylph is a species of bird in the Trochilidae family. It is a striking hummingbird with extremely long tail. It is is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Volcano Hummingbird

The Volcano Hummingbird is a very small hummingbird of Central America, a native to the Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama.

Collared Inca

The Collared Inca is a large hummingbird with striking white flashes in their tail and eye-catching white chest collars. This species is found in humid Andean forests from western Venezuela, through Colombia and Ecuador, to Peru and Bolivia.

Copper-Rumped Hummingbird

The Copper-Rumped Hummingbird, commonly referred to as the Common Emerald of the Tobago Hummingbird is found in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and has occurred as a vagrant in Grenada. It is a seasonal migrant in parts of Venezuela.

Coppery-Headed Emerald

The Coppery-Headed Emerald is a small hummingbird measuring 3 inches in length and weighing only about 3 grams. This species is endemic to Costa Rica.

Violet Sabrewing

The Violet Sabrewing is a very large, spectacular, and aggressive species of hummingbirds native to southern Mexico and Central America as far south as Costa Rica and western Panama.