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Berylline Hummingbird

Amazilia beryllinaOrder: APODIFORMESFamily: Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Berylline Hummingbird Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Berylline Hummingbird: Medium-sized hummingbird with glittering green back, head, nape, throat, and breast. Wings and tail are rufous. Bill is black; lower mandible has red base. Undertail coverts are cinnamon-brown. Female is duller and with pale gray belly and undertail coverts.

Range and Habitat

Berylline Hummingbird: Endemic of southern and western Mexican foothills and highlands; occurs in southeastern Arizona as a stray, where it occasionally breeds. Inhabits oak and pine woodlands and edges, oak scrub and clearings, plantations; in U.S., forested canyons of desert mountains.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"sirr, kirr-I-rr, kirr-I-rr"

Interesting Facts

 The Berylline Hummingbird is among the rarer of southeastern Arizona's hummingbird strays, and is much sought after by visiting birders.

 They are most likely to be seen at hummingbird feeders in wooded mountain canyons, such as Madera Canyon or in the Huachuca or Chiricahua mountains.

 Some sources list them as an accidental species, since its members apparently do not breed regularly in the US.

 A group of hummingbirds has many collective nouns, including a “bouquet", "glittering", "hover", "shimmer", and "tune” of hummingbirds.



Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family Hummingbird (Trochilidae)_blue
Species Amazilia beryllina
Length3.75 - 4.25 Inches
Wingspan5.25 Inches

Berylline Hummingbird

Berylline Hummingbird: Medium hummingbird, glittering green back, head, nape, throat, and breast. Wings and tail are rufous. Bill is black; lower mandible has red base. Undertail coverts are cinnamon-brown. Feeds on nectar and insects. Direct and hovering flight with rapid wing beats.

● Song: "sirr, kirr-I-rr, kirr-I-rr"

● Foraging & Feeding: Berylline Hummingbird: Feeds on nectar and insects; often dominates other feeding hummingbirds by diving at them and chasing them away from flowers.

● Breeding & nesting: Berylline Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a nest made of plant fibers and spider webs, covered with lichens, and built in a tree or shrub, 17 to 25 feet above the ground, usually on a horizontal branch or vertical fork. Female incubates eggs for about 14 days.

● Similar species: Berylline Hummingbird: Buff-bellied Hummingbird has cinnamon-brown to buff belly, shows no rufous on wings, and has a black tip on lower mandible.

Flight Pattern

Direct and hovering flight with very rapid wing beats.
Berylline Hummingbird Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Berylline Hummingbird: Endemic of southern and western Mexican foothills and highlands; occurs in southeastern Arizona as a stray, where it occasionally breeds. Inhabits oak and pine woodlands and edges, oak scrub and clearings, plantations; in U.S., forested canyons of desert mountains.
BreedingSolitary nester
Population
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.2 Ounces