Bird Guide

Cinnamon Hummingbird vs Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Cinnamon Hummingbird (Amazilia rutila)

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Amazilia rutila

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The cinnamon hummingbird is 9.5 to 11.5 cm (3.7 to 4.5 in) long and on average weighs about 5 to 5.5 g (0.18 to 0.19 oz). Adults of the nominate subspecies A. r. rutila have metallic bronze green upperparts and cinnamon to cinnamon rufous underparts that are paler on the chin and upper throat. The tail is deep cinnamon rufous to rufous chestnut; the feathers have dark metallic bronze tips and the outermost have dark metallic bronze outer edges. The wings are a dark brownish slate. Males' bills are red with a black tip and females' mostly black with red at the base.

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Photo: Sinaloa Silvestre · CC0
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl)

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Amazilia tzacatl

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The rufous-tailed hummingbird is 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long and weighs approximately 5 g (0.18 oz). The adult male of the nominate subspecies has a green head and upperparts except for chestnut-brown lores and uppertail coverts. The tail is also mostly chestnut-brown, giving the species its English name; the feathers' outer webs and tips are bronze green. The throat, upper breast, and sides are green; the throat feathers sometimes have thin white edges giving a scalloped effect. The lower breast is gray, the belly white, and the undertail coverts chestnut-brown.

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Recording: Gean Carlo Valdés · CC0
Photo: Andy Morffew from Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, UK · CC BY 2.0

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