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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.

Buff-Tailed Sicklebill

The Buff-Tailed Sicklebill is a relatively large, heavily-streaked hummingbird with an amazing hook-like bill. It is a species of hermit hummingbird from the lower Andes and adjacent west Amazonian lowlands from southern Colombia and northern Ecuador to Peru and Bolivia.

Buff-Breasted Sabrewing

The Buff-Breasted Sabrewing is a large, green and buff-colored hummingbird found in Brazil and Venezuela.

Buff-Bellied Hermit

The Buff-Bellied Hermit is a small, dull hummingbird with a curved bill similar to the Planalto and Cinnamon-Throated hermits. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.

Bronze-Tailed Plumeleteer

The Bronze-Tailed Plumeleteer is a large hummingbird resident in Central America and South America from eastern Honduras to northwestern Ecuador.

Bronze-Tailed Comet

The Bronze-Tailed Comet is a large, long-tailed hummingbird species endemic to the Pacific slope of Andes of Peru.