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Coppery-Bellied Puffleg

The Coppery-Bellied Puffleg is a fairly large hummingbird found in Colombia and Venezuala. This species is threatened by habitat loss.

Coppery Thorntail

The Coppery Thorntail also known as Letitia’s Thorntail is a species of hummingbird only known from two old male specimens from Bolivia in the 1850s.

Coppery Metaltail

The Coppery Metaltail is a distinctively colored hummingbird found only in Peru.

Coppery Emerald

The Coppery Emerald is a small, compact, short-billed hummingbird found in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá.

Green-Bellied Hummingbird

The Green-Bellied Hummingbird also known as the Tepui Hummingbird found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela.

Colorful Puffleg

The Colorful Puffleg is a rare hummingbird known only from a tiny area of Colombia’s western Andes west of Popayán. This species is considered critically endangered due to habitat loss.

Cinnamon-Throated Hermit

The Cinnamon-Throated Hermit is a tiny hummingbird with a curved bill. It is found in a broad dry to semi-humid belt along the southern edge of the Amazon Rainforest from far north-eastern Bolivia north-east to Maranhão in Brazil.

Chiribiquete Emerald

The Chiribiquete Emerald is a poorly known hummingbird species found only in the remote Chiribiquete Mountains in southeastern Colombia, far from the Andes.

Chilean Woodstar

The Chilean Woodstar is a hummingbird restricted to northernmost Chile. It is the smallest bird in Chile. This bird is threatened by habitat loss and is classed as a critically endangered species.

Buffy Hummingbird

The Buffy Hummingbird is a medium-sized, brown-and-green hummingbird that lives in dry forest and scrubland in northern South America where it feeds on insects and the nectar, flesh, and juice of cactus fruits.

Buff-Winged Starfrontlet

The Buff-Winged Starfrontlet is a large, long-billed hummingbird found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Buff-Thighed Puffleg

The Buff-Thighed Puffleg is a small, green hummingbird with a thin and very straight bill. It is often considered a subspecies of the Greenish Puffleg. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.