Cinnamon Hummingbird

Amazilia rutilaOrder: APODIFORMESFamily: Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Cinnamon Hummingbird Female - The female Cinnamon Hummingbird has bronze green upperparts and cinnamon colored underparts. The squared tail is rufous with gold-green edging. The upper mandible of the bill is black, the lower mandible is red.

Cinnamon Hummingbird - The male Cinnamon Hummingbird has bronze green upperparts and cinnamon colored underparts. The squared tail is rufous with gold-green edging. The bill is bright red with a black tip.

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Cinnamon Hummingbird

Cinnamon Hummingbird: Medium size, bicolored hummingbird with bronze green upperparts and cinnamon colored underparts. The tail is square, rufous with gold-green edging. This promiscuous bird attracts a female by flying back and forth like a swing. Both sexes are protective of feeding territories.

● Song: "chi-chi chi chi", "tsi si si-si-sit"

● Foraging & Feeding: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Feeds and perches low to high. Visits flowering shrubs, trees, and epiphytes. Aggressive near feeding areas, may defend feeding territory.

● Breeding & nesting: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a tidy cup of fern tree scales and seed down, covered with lichen and bound with spider webbing. Nest is built by female 3 to 16 feet above ground in a tree or shrub. Female incubates eggs for 13-15 days, altricial young fly between 14 and 23 days.

● Similar species: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Buff-bellied Hummingbird has a rufous tail, green chin, throat, and breast, and buff belly and undertail coverts. Berylline Hummingbird has deep green upperparts and underparts, and rufous-chestnut wings, tail, and rump.

Flight Pattern

Swift and direct flight on rapidly beating wings.

Cinnamon Hummingbird Body Illustration_2

● Range & Habitat: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Accidental in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Common in native Mexico to Central America. Found in a wide variety of habitats at low elevations, such as plantations, scrublands with thorns, arid areas, woodland edges, and grassy fields and pastures.

^BreedingPolygamous, Promiscuous

^PopulationAccidental

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.2 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America