Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
7.50 - 8.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bourcier, 1839)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, rural gardens. From sea-level 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada, Mexico, USA (B).

South-western and west-central USA (from central California, southern Nevada and extreme south-western Utah) south to north-western Mexico (to southern Baja California and central Sonora). Winters south to west-central Mexico (at least to Nayarit).

Population
Estimated population is 4,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) [XC203734]
by Paul Marvin from Kabian Park, Riverside Co., California, United States (call, song)

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) [XC452498]
by Frank Lambert from Veteran's Oasis Park, Gilbert, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States (song)

Subspecies
Genus often merged into Archilochus, and both have sometimes been subsumed into Selasphorus. However, in morphology, vocalizations and displays, members of present genus stand apart from the Selasphorus-Archilochus assemblage. Alternatively, present genus sometimes merged into Mellisuga. Some authors would even place present species in the Archilochus superspecies. However, species is closely related to Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna). Has hybridized with several other species of western North American hummingbirds, including Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna), Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus), Blue-throated Hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae), Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) and Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Costas Hummingbird (Calypte costae) - 10 files

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