Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
7.50 - 8 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gould, 1847)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland and shrubland, moist shrubland. From 180 - 3,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada, Mexico, USA (B).

South-western Canada (central and eastern British Columbia and south-western Alberta) and western USA in Rocky Mts and Sierra Nevada (Washington to California and east to Wyoming and western Colorado). Winters in west-central and south-central Mexico (south-eastern Sinaloa to east-central Oaxaca).

Population
Estimated population is 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) [XC132946]
by Richard E. Webster from Sugarloaf, San Bernardino Mountains, California, United States (display dive)

Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) [XC93595]
by Daniel Lane from Baton Rouge, East B. R. Parish, LA, United States (call)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Mellisuga. Alternatively lumped into Archilochus.

Proposed subspecies lowei (Guerrero) based on a winter specimen, and claimed differences fall within normal variation.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

More Information

BirdLife International

For more information about the Calliope Hummingbird see... Show Articles

BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Articles about the Calliope Hummingbird

If you would like to read any articles about the Calliope Hummingbird...

Show Articles (0)

No Pictures of Calliope Hummingbird

If Birdpedia has no pictures of Calliope Hummingbird or you would like to see more, then try the following...

Show External Images from BING

From BING (9)

No Videos of Calliope Hummingbird

If Birdpedia has no videos of Calliope Hummingbird or you would like to see more, then try the following..

Show External Videos

From BING (0)