Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus)

Other Names (World)
Ruby-topaz Hummingbird, Ruby Topaz

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
9.20 - 10.40 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Vagrant to Grenada.

Eastern Panama and west, northern and central Colombia east through Venezuela to the Guianas, then south through north-eastern and central Brazil (Pará to Pernambuco and south to Mato Grosso) to eastern Bolivia; also islands along northern coast from Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire east to Trinidad and Tobago.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) [XC752778]
by Thieres Pinto from Boa Nova, Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil (flight call)

Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) [XC5219]
by Juan Mazar Barnett from Icapu\u00ed, Cear\u00e1 State, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Closely related to Orthorhyncus, and may even be congeneric.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) - 10 files

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