Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii) | Photos and ID

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Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Bill Levine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

Xantus's hummingbird is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long. Males weigh an average of 3.5 g (0.12 oz) and females 3.4 g (0.12 oz). Their bills are straight and about 1.7 cm (0.67 in) long; males' are red with a black tip. Females' maxilla is black with a pinkish base and their mandible pinkish red with a black tip. Males have a golden green to emerald green crown, nape, and upperparts with rufous edging on the uppertail coverts. Their forehead and chin are black, their face mostly black with a wide white stripe behind the eye, and their throat iridescent emerald green. Voice: The male Xantus's hummingbird sings from within or under a bush, "a quiet, rough, gurgling warble, at times interspersed with rattles...and high, squeaky notes.

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When to see the Xantus's Hummingbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Xantus's Hummingbird

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 2 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.

Mexico

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, United States.

About the Xantus's Hummingbird

Xantus's hummingbird, previously known as the black-fronted hummingbird, is a species in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to the Baja California Peninsula.

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Easily confused with

White-eared HummingbirdBasilinna leucotisThe white-eared hummingbird is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long.

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