Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi) | Photos and ID

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Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 1 — Photo: (c) cello caruso-turiello, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by cello caruso-turiello · cc-by

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 3 — Photo: (c) David A. Rodríguez Arias, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Kat B, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 5 — Photo: (c) tomas_kay, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 7 — Photo: (c) desertnaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Juniper Meredyk, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Bin Aden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The mangrove hummingbird is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long and weighs about 4.5 g (0.16 oz). Both sexes have a medium length bill, slightly decurved, with a black maxilla and a reddish mandible with a dusky tip. Adult males have golden to bronze-green upperparts and flanks. Their chin, throat, and breast are glittering bluish green with white bars near the end of the chin feathers. Their belly is whitish with bronze-green sides and their undertail coverts are white. The slightly forked tail is bronzy green; the outer feathers have blackish outer edges and tips.

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When to see the Mangrove Hummingbird

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Mangrove Hummingbird

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 7 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Colombia Panama Ecuador Peru Trinidad & Tobago Costa Rica Venezuela Argentina Guyana Bolivia French Guiana Paraguay Suriname ZZ

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Guatemala, Grenada, Mexico, United States, Dominican Republic, Uruguay.

About the Mangrove Hummingbird

The mangrove hummingbird is an Endangered species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Costa Rica.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Humboldt's SapphireChrysuronia humboldtiiHumboldt's sapphire is 9 to 12.5 cm (3.5 to 4.9 in) long.

Sapphire-bellied HummingbirdChrysuronia lilliaeThe sapphire-bellied hummingbird is 8.9 to 9.4 cm (3.5 to 3.7 in) long.

Blue-headed SapphireChrysuronia grayiThe blue-headed sapphire is 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long.

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