4 hours ago
8
PROTECT YOUR DNA WITH QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY
Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by Adpathway20 hummingbirds on the WINGS Veracruz checklist, displayed in taxonomic order. All photos from Wikimedia Commons
4 October 2026, WINGS at Veracruz: Day 6, in the highlands near Xalapa
Our checklist for this trip includes 20 species of hummingbirds, 11 of which will be Life Birds if I seen them. Enjoy their beauty in the slideshow above.
Fun Fact about the wedge-tailed sabrewing. 15th in the slideshow and pictured below.
Wedge-tailed sabrewing (photo from Wikimedia)The Wedge-tailed Sabrewing is a hummingbird that not only hums, it sings. And sings. And sings even more. Its song is so complex as to make one wonder about the appellation “songbird” being limited to oscine passerines. … This prodigious serenading emanates from clusters of males known as leks, which form to attract females more effectively.
— Birds of the World: Wedge-tailed sabrewing IntroductionHere’s his song from Macaulay Library
Curious about the birds? See descriptions and links in the table below. The table is in the same order as the slideshow.
| Green-breasted Mango | Anthracothorax prevostii | resident of lowland open areas up to 500m | Seen in Costa Rica |
| Rivoli's Hummingbird | Eugenes fulgens | pine-oak and cloud forest | Seen in Costa Rica |
| Amethyst-throated Mountain-gem | Lampornis amethystinus | montane evergreen and pine-oak | Y |
| Blue-throated Mountain-gem | Lampornis clemenciae | highland deciduous forest, 2nd growth & shrubby | Y |
| Garnet-throated Hummingbird | Lamprolaima rhami | cloud forest & pine-oak at 1200–3000 m | Y |
| Mexican Sheartail | Doricha eliza | Veracruz: in dry deciduous forest. Arid lowland, mangrove edge, gardens | Y |
| Lucifer Hummingbird | Calothorax lucifer | arid with agave plants & on sky islands 1,100–1,700 m | Seen in AZ |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris | On migration and at wintering grounds | Seen in US |
| Calliope Hummingbird | Selasphorus calliope | On migration; winters on Pacific side of continental divide | Seen in US |
| Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | On wintering grounds | Seen in US |
| Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus | Resident and on wintering grounds | Seen in US |
| Bumblebee Hummingbird | Selasphorus heloisa | humid montane pine-oak, evergreen, scrub | Y |
| Canivet’s Emerald | Cynanthus canivetii | semi-humid to arid lowland forest, parks, plantations to 1,000m | Y |
| White-eared Hummingbird | Basilinna leucotis | pine-oak, pine-evergreen & clearings with flowers | Y |
| Wedge-tailed Sabrewing | Pampa curvipennis | Veracruz: interior cloud forests and humid forest 260–1,500 m | Y |
| Violet Sabrewing | Campylopterus hemileucurus | understory of humid montane forest, banana plantations and gardens | Seen in Panama |
| Azure-crowned Hummingbird | Saucerottia cyanocephala | oak and pine-oak forests, scrub | Y |
| Berylline Hummingbird | Saucerottia beryllina | dense oak and pine-oak forest and scrub, parks and gardens. Mainly arid | Y |
| Buff-bellied Hummingbird | Amazilia yucatanensis | variety: scrubby woodlands, forest edges, parks, gardens below 1,200 m | Seen in Texas |
| White-bellied Emerald | Chlorestes candida | lowland evergreen & semideciduous forests | Y |
English (US) · 
French (CA) ·