Snowcap hummingbird (Microchera albocoronata) 6½ cm long and 2½g Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, etc.
Purple or violet-crowned plovercrest (Stephanoxis loddigesii) 9cm long and 2.8g Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay.
Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) 10½ cm long with a wingspan of 12 cm and a weight range of 3-6 g breeds in California, Arizona; summers in Northern California and Oregon up to Southern Canada.
Marvellous spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) 16cm including tail up to 7cm (male); 12cm (female) 3g Peru.
Shining sunbeam hummingbird (Aglaeactis cupripennis) Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. This giant hummingbird measures 12cm, weighs a mighty 7g (a full ¼oz) almost as much as a British willow warbler!
The rufous-crested coquette ( Lophornis delattrei) is so beautiful it gets two pictures. 6¾cm in length, with a wingspan of 9cm, and weighing an average of 2.8g. Peru to Costa Rica.
Here’s the rufous-crested coquette (Lophornis delattrei) pecking at a partner.
Aren’t they wonderful!
Anna’s hummingbird on a Niger postage stamp, value approx $1.45 USD
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