| IOC English Name | Scientific Name | Range | Comments |
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ORDER APODIFORMES |
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Owlet-nightjars (10) |
Family Aegothelidae |
PHY : The owlet-nightjars (Aegothelidae) are the sister taxon to treeswifts and in turn to the swifts and hummingbirds; hence are included in the Apodiformes (Hackett et al. 2008, Christidis and Boles 2008) | |
| Feline Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles insignis Salvadori, 1876 | AU : New Guinea | |
| Starry Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles tatei Rand, 1941 | AU : ec New Guinea | ENG : Change English name of Aegotheles tatei from Spangled Owlet-nightjar to Starry Owlet-nightjar (T.Pratt, P.Gregory proposal) |
| Moluccan Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles crinifrons (Bonaparte, 1850) | AU : n Moluccas | |
| Wallace's Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles wallacii Gray, GR, 1859 | AU : New Guinea | |
| A. w. wallacii Gray, GR, 1859 | nw and sc New Guinea, Aru Is. | ||
| A. w. gigas Rothschild, 1931 | s New Guinea, Weyland Mts. (wc New Guinea) | ||
| A. w. manni Diamond, 1969 | n New Guinea | ||
| Archbold's Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles archboldi Rand, 1941 | AU : New Guinea | |
| Mountain Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles albertisi Sclater, PL, 1874 | AU : New Guinea | TAX : Mountain Owlet-nightjar includes Salvadori‘s Owlet-nightjar A. salvadorii as a subspecies (Dumbacher et al. MPE 2003, T Pratt comm) |
| A. a. albertisi Sclater, PL, 1874 | Vokelkop Pen. (nw New Guinea) | ||
| A. a. wondiwoi Mayr & Rand, 1936 | Wandammen Pen. (nw New Guinea) | ||
| A. a. salvadorii Hartert, 1892 | c to se New Guinea | ||
| New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles savesi Layard, EL & Layard, ELC, 1881 | AU : New Caledonia | ENG : CHANGE English name of Aegotheles savesi from Enigmatic Owlet-nightjar to New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar (Guy Dutson et al 2010) |
| Barred Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles bennettii Salvadori & d'Albertis, 1875 | AU : New Guinea | |
| A. b. wiedenfeldi Laubmann, 1914 | n New Guinea | ||
| A. b. terborghi Diamond, 1967 | sc New Guinea | ||
| A. b. bennettii Salvadori & d'Albertis, 1875 | se New Guinea, Aru Is. | ||
| A. b. plumifer Ramsay, EP, 1883 | D'Entrecasteaux Arch. | ||
| Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles affinis Salvadori, 1876 | AU : Vokelkop Pen. (nw New Guinea) | AS : Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar is split from Barred Owlet-nightjar A.bennetti (Dumbacher et al 2003; Pratt, Rheindt comm 2010) |
| Australian Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles cristatus (Shaw, 1790) | AU : Australia, s New Guinea | |
| A. c. cristatus (Shaw, 1790) | se New Guinea and Australia | ||
| A. c. tasmanicus Mathews, 1918 | Tasmania | ||
Treeswifts (4) |
Family Hemiprocnidae |
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| Crested Treeswift | Hemiprocne coronata (Tickell, 1833) | OR : India through Southeast Asia | |
| Grey-rumped Treeswift | Hemiprocne longipennis (Rafinesque, 1802) | OR, AU : Malay Peninsula To Sulawesi | |
| H. l. harterti Stresemann, 1913 | s Burma to sw Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and Sulu Arch. (w Philippines) | ||
| H. l. perlonga (Richmond, 1903) | islands off w Sumatra | ||
| H. l. longipennis (Rafinesque, 1802) | Java, Bali, Lombok and Kangean Is. | ||
| H. l. wallacii (Gould, 1859) | Sulawesi, Banggai and Sula Is. | ||
| Whiskered Treeswift | Hemiprocne comata (Temminck, 1824) | OR : Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines | |
| H. c. comata (Temminck, 1824) | s Burma, s Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and nearby islands | ||
| H. c. major (Hartert, 1895) | Philippine Is. and Sulu Arch. | ||
| Moustached Treeswift | Hemiprocne mystacea (Lesson & Garnot, 1827) | AU : New Guinea, Bismarck Is, Solomon Is, Halmahera | |
| H. m. confirmata Stresemann, 1914 | Moluccas and Aru Is. | ||
| H. m. mystacea (Lesson & Garnot, 1827) | New Guinea and w Papuan Is. | ||
| H. m. aeroplanes Stresemann, 1921 | Bismarck Arch. | ||
| H. m. macrura Salomonsen, 1983 | Admiralty Is. | ||
| H. m. woodfordiana (Hartert, 1896) | Solomon Is. | ||
| H. m. carbonaria Salomonsen, 1983 | San Crist�bal I. (sc Solomon Is.) | ||
Swifts (105) |
Family Apodidae |
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| Spot-fronted Swift | Cypseloides cherriei Ridgway, 1893 | LA : Costa Rica to n, nw SA | |
| White-chinned Swift | Cypseloides cryptus Zimmer, 1945 | LA : Belize to n, nw SA | |
| White-fronted Swift | Cypseloides storeri Navarro, Peterson, Escalante & Benitez, 1992 | MA : sw Mexico | |
| Sooty Swift | Cypseloides fumigatus (Streubel, 1848) | SA : c, se | |
| Rothschild's Swift | Cypseloides rothschildi Zimmer, 1945 | SA : sc | |
| American Black Swift | Cypseloides niger (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | NA, MA : w | |
| C. n. borealis (Kennerly, 1858) | se Alaska to sw USA | ||
| C. n. costaricensis Ridgway, 1910 | c Mexico to Costa Rica | ||
| C. n. niger (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | West Indies, Trinidad | ||
| White-chested Swift | Cypseloides lemosi Eisenmann & Lehmann, 1962 | SA : nw | |
| Great Dusky Swift | Cypseloides senex (Temminck, 1826) | SA : c | |
| Tepui Swift | Streptoprocne phelpsi (Collins, 1972) | SA : Tepuis | TAX : Cypseloides phelpsi is now placed in Streptoprocne (Marín & Stiles 1992, SACC) |
| Chestnut-collared Swift | Streptoprocne rutila (Vieillot, 1817) | LA : w Mexico to Guyana and Peru | TAX : Cypseloides rutilus is now placed in Streptoprocne (Marín & Stiles 1992; AOU 1998, SACC) |
| S. r. griseifrons (Nelson, 1900) | w Mexico | ||
| S. r. brunnitorques (Lafresnaye, 1844) | se Mexico to Bolivia | ||
| S. r. rutila (Vieillot, 1817) | Venezuela, Guyana, Trinidad | ||
| White-collared Swift | Streptoprocne zonaris (Shaw, 1796) | LA : widespread, also Caribbean | |
| S. z. mexicana Ridgway, 1910 | s Mexico, Belize | ||
| S. z. bouchellii Huber, 1923 | Nicaragua to Panama | ||
| S. z. pallidifrons (Hartert, 1896) | Greater and Lesser Antilles | ||
| S. z. minor (Lawrence, 1882) | n Venezuela and Trinidad | ||
| S. z. albicincta (Cabanis, 1862) | s Venezuela and the Guianas | ||
| S. z. subtropicalis Parkes, 1994 | Colombia, w Venezuela and Peru | ||
| S. z. altissima Chapman, 1914 | higher elevations of Colombia and Ecuador | ||
| S. z. kuenzeli Niethammer, 1953 | Bolivia and nw Argentina | ||
| S. z. zonaris (Shaw, 1796) | e Bolivia, Paraguay, s Brazil and n Argentina | ||
| Biscutate Swift | Streptoprocne biscutata (Sclater, PL, 1866) | SA : e | |
| S. b. seridoensis Sick, 1991 | ne Brazil | ||
| S. b. biscutata (Sclater, PL, 1866) | se Brazil, Paraguay, n Argentina | ||
| White-naped Swift | Streptoprocne semicollaris (DeSaussure, 1859) | MA : w Mexico | |
| Giant Swiftlet | Hydrochous gigas (Hartert & Butler, AL, 1901) | OR : Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas | |
| Glossy Swiftlet | Collocalia esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758) | OR, AU : Andaman Islands and Philippines to New Caledonia | |
| C. e. affinis Beavan, 1867 | Andaman and Nicobar Is. | ||
| C. e. elachyptera Oberholser, 1906 | Mergui Arch. (off s Burma) | ||
| C. e. cyanoptila Oberholser, 1906 | Malay Pen., Sumatra and nearby islands and Borneo | ||
| C. e. vanderbilti Meyer de Schauensee & Ripley, 1940 | Nias I. (off w Sumatra) | ||
| C. e. oberholseri Stresemann, 1912 | Batu and Mentawi Is. (off w Sumatra) | ||
| C. e. natalis Lister, 1889 | Christmas I. (s of Java) | ||
| C. e. septentrionalis Mayr, 1945 | Babuyan, Calayan and N Camiguin (n of Luzon, n Philippines) | ||
| C. e. isonota Oberholser, 1906 | n Luzon (n Philippines) | ||
| C. e. marginata Salvadori, 1882 | c and s Luzon, e and w Visaya and Palawan | ||
| C. e. bagobo Hachisuka, 1930 | Mindanao, Mindoro, Sulu Arch. (s Philippines) | ||
| C. e. manadensis Salomonsen, 1983 | n Sulawesi to Sangihe and the Talaud Is. | ||
| C. e. esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758) | c and s Sulawesi through Banggai and Sula Is to c and s Moluccas | ||
| C. e. minuta Stresemann, 1925 | Tanahdjampea and Kalao Is. (off Sulawesi) | ||
| C. e. spilura Gray, GR, 1866 | n Moluccas | ||
| C. e. sumbawae Stresemann, 1925 | w Lesser Sundas | ||
| C. e. neglecta Gray, GR, 1866 | s Lesser Sundas | ||
| C. e. perneglecta Mayr, 1944 | ec Lesser Sundas | ||
| C. e. amethystina Salomonsen, 1983 | Waigeo I. (off nw New Guinea) | ||
| C. e. numforensis Salomonsen, 1983 | Numfor I. (off nw New Guinea) | ||
| C. e. nitens Ogilvie-Grant, 1914 | New Guinea lowlands, w Papuan islands | ||
| C. e. erwini Collin, A & Hartert, 1927 | mountains of w New Guinea | ||
| C. e. stresemanni Rothschild & Hartert, 1914 | Admiralty Is. | ||
| C. e. kalili Salomonsen, 1983 | New Ireland, New Hanover and Djaul (c Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| C. e. spilogaster Salomonsen, 1983 | Tabar Is. and the Lihir group (ne Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| C. e. hypogrammica Salomonsen, 1983 | Green Is. (e Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| C. e. tametamele Stresemann, 1921 | New Britain and Witu Is. (Bismarck Arch.), Bougainville I. (nw Solomon Is.) | ||
| C. e. misimae Salomonsen, 1983 | Louisiade Arch. | ||
| C. e. becki Mayr, 1931 | c and ne Solomon Is. | ||
| C. e. makirensis Mayr, 1931 | San Cristóbal I. (se Solomon Is.) | ||
| C. e. desiderata Mayr, 1931 | Rennell I. ( s Solomon Is.) | ||
| C. e. uropygialis Gray, GR, 1866 | Santa Cruz Is. and Vanuatu | ||
| C. e. albidior Salomonsen, 1983 | Loyalty Is. and New Caledonia | ||
| Cave Swiftlet | Collocalia linchi Horsfield & Moore, F, 1854 | OR : Java, Sumatra | |
| C. l. ripleyi Somadikarta, S, 1986 | Sumatra | ||
| C. l. linchi Horsfield & Moore, F, 1854 | Java and Bawean I. | ||
| C. l. dedii Somadikarta, S, 1986 | Bali and Lombok | ||
| Bornean Swiftlet | Collocalia dodgei Richmond, 1905 | OR : Borneo | AS : Collocalia dodgei is split from C. linchi (Moyle et al. 2008) |
| Pygmy Swiftlet | Collocalia troglodytes Gray, GR, 1845 | OR : Philippines | |
| Seychelles Swiftlet | Aerodramus elaphrus (Oberholser, 1906) | IO : Seychelles Islands | |
| Mascarene Swiftlet | Aerodramus francicus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | IO : Mauritius, La Réunion | |
| Indian Swiftlet | Aerodramus unicolor (Jerdon, 1840) | OR : sw India, Sri Lanka | |
| Philippine Swiftlet | Aerodramus mearnsi (Oberholser, 1912) | OR : Philippines | |
| Halmahera Swiftlet | Aerodramus infuscatus (Salvadori, 1880) | AU : Halmahera | ENG : Change English name of Aerodramus infuscatus to Halmahera Swiftlet with splits of A. sororum and A. ceramensis |
| Sulawesi Swiftlet | Aerodramus sororum (Stresemann, 1931) | AU : c,s,se Sulawesi | AS : Aerodramus sororum is split from A. infuscatus (Rheindt & Hutchinson 2007) |
| Seram Swiftlet | Aerodramus ceramensis (van Oort, 1911) | AU : Buru and Seram Is. | AS : Aerodramus ceramensis is split from A. infuscatus (Rheindt & Hutchinson 2007) |
| Mountain Swiftlet | Aerodramus hirundinaceus (Stresemann, 1914) | AU : New Guinea | |
| A. h. baru (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932) | Yapen I. (off nw New Guinea) | ||
| A. h. hirundinaceus (Stresemann, 1914) | New Guinea | ||
| A. h. excelsus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1914) | Snow Mts and Mt. Carstensz (w New Guinea) | ||
| White-rumped Swiftlet | Aerodramus spodiopygius (Peale, 1848) | AU : Bismarck Archipelago to Samoa | |
| A. s. delichon (Salomonsen, 1983) | Manus I. (Admiralty Is.) | ||
| A. s. eichhorni (Hartert, 1924) | Mussau I. in St. Matthias group (nc Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| A. s. noonaedanae (Salomonsen, 1983) | New Ireland and New Britain (Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| A. s. reichenowi (Stresemann, 1912) | s and e Solomon Is. | ||
| A. s. desolatus (Salomonsen, 1983) | Duff, Swallow and Santa Cruz Is. (Solomon Is.) | ||
| A. s. epiensis (Salomonsen, 1983) | n and c Vanuatu | ||
| A. s. ingens (Salomonsen, 1983) | s Vanuatu | ||
| A. s. leucopygius (Wallace, 1864) | Loyalty Is. and New Caledonia | ||
| A. s. assimilis (Stresemann, 1912) | Fiji Is. | ||
| A. s. townsendi (Oberholser, 1906) | Tonga | ||
| A. s. spodiopygius (Peale, 1848) | Samoa | ||
| Australian Swiftlet | Aerodramus terraereginae (Ramsay, EP, 1875) | AU : ne Australia | |
| A. t. terraereginae (Ramsay, EP, 1875) | coastal n Queensland | ||
| A. t. chillagoensis Pecotich, 1982 | inland e Australia | ||
| Himalayan Swiftlet | Aerodramus brevirostris (Horsfield, 1840) | OR : ne India to sc China and Malay Peninsula | |
| A. b. brevirostris (Horsfield, 1840) | Himalayas, ne India, s China and n Burma | ||
| A. b. innominatus (Hume, 1873) | c China to n Vietnam | ||
| A. b. rogersi (Deignan, 1955) | e Burma, n and w Thailand, n Laos and nw Vietnam | ||
| Volcano Swiftlet | Aerodramus vulcanorum (Stresemann, 1926) | OR : w Java | |
| Whitehead's Swiftlet | Aerodramus whiteheadi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895) | OR : Philippines | |
| A. w. whiteheadi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895) | Mt. Data (n Luzon) | ||
| A. w. origenis (Oberholser, 1906) | Mt. Apo (Mindanao) | ||
| Bare-legged Swiftlet | Aerodramus nuditarsus (Salomonsen, 1962) | AU : New Guinea | |
| Mayr's Swiftlet | Aerodramus orientalis (Mayr, 1935) | AU : Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands | |
| A. o. leletensis (Salomonsen, 1962) | c New Ireland (Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| A. o. orientalis (Mayr, 1935) | Guadalcanal (Solomon Is.) | ||
| Mossy-nest Swiftlet | Aerodramus salangana (Streubel, 1848) | OR : Sumatra, Java, Borneo | |
| A. s. aerophilus (Oberholser, 1912) | islands off w Sumatra | ||
| A. s. natunae (Stresemann, 1930) | n Borneo, Natuna Is., Sumatra (?) | ||
| A. s. maratua (Riley, 1927) | Maratua Arch. (off ne Borneo) | ||
| A. s. salangana (Streubel, 1848) | Java | ||
| Uniform Swiftlet | Aerodramus vanikorensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) | AU : Sulawesi to Vanuatu, also Philippines | |
| A. v. amelis (Oberholser, 1906) | Philippines (except Palawan) | ||
| A. v. palawanensis (Stresemann, 1914) | Palawan | ||
| A. v. aenigma (Riley, 1918) | c Sulawesi | ||
| A. v. heinrichi (Stresemann, 1932) | s Sulawesi | ||
| A. v. moluccarum (Stresemann, 1914) | s Moluccas | ||
| A. v. waigeuensis (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932) | n Moluccas, w Papua islands | ||
| A. v. steini (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932) | Numfor and Biak Is. (of nw New Guinea) | ||
| A. v. yorki (Mathews, 1916) | New Guinea, Aru Is. and D'Entrecasteaux Arch. | ||
| A. v. tagulae (Mayr, 1937) | Louisiade Arch., Trobriand Is. and Woodlark I. | ||
| A. v. coultasi (Mayr, 1937) | Admiralty Is. and St. Matthias Group | ||
| A. v. pallens (Salomonsen, 1983) | New Britain, New Hanover, New Ireland and Djaul I. (Bismarck Arch.) | ||
| A. v. lihirensis (Mayr, 1937) | islands e of New Ireland | ||
| A. v. lugubris (Salomonsen, 1983) | Solomon Is. | ||
| A. v. vanikorensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) | Santa Cruz Is. and Vanuatu | ||
| Palau Swiftlet | Aerodramus pelewensis (Mayr, 1935) | PO : Palau Islands | |
| Mariana Swiftlet | Aerodramus bartschi (Mearns, 1909) | PO : Mariana Islands | |
| Island Swiftlet | Aerodramus inquietus (Kittlitz, 1858) | PO : Caroline Islands | |
| A. i. rukensis (Kuroda, 1915) | Yap and Chuuk Is. (c Caroline Is.) | ||
| A. i. ponapensis (Mayr, 1935) | Pohnpei I. (e Caroline Is.) | ||
| A. i. inquietus (Kittlitz, 1858) | Kosrae I. ( e Carolina Is.) | ||
| Tahiti Swiftlet | Aerodramus leucophaeus (Peale, 1848) | PO : Society Islands | |
| Atiu Swiftlet | Aerodramus sawtelli (Holyoak, 1974) | PO : Cook islands | |
| Marquesan Swiftlet | Aerodramus ocistus (Oberholser, 1906) | PO : Marquesas Islands | |
| A. o. ocistus (Oberholser, 1906) | n Marquesas Is. | ||
| A. o. gilliardi (Somadikarta, S, 1994) | s Marquesas Is. | ||
| Black-nest Swiftlet | Aerodramus maximus (Hume, 1878) | OR : Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas | |
| A. m. maximus (Hume, 1878) | s Burma, Malaysia and se Vietnam | ||
| A. m. lowi (Sharpe, 1879) | Sumatra, n and w Borneo and Java | ||
| A. m. tichelmani (Stresemann, 1926) | se Borneo | ||
| Edible-nest Swiftlet | Aerodramus fuciphagus (Thunberg, 1812) | OR, AU : Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula to Lesser Sundas | |
| A. f. amechanus (Oberholser, 1912) | Anambas Is. (off se Malay Pen.) | ||
| A. f. inexpectatus (Hume, 1873) | Andaman and Nicobar Is. | ||
| A. f. vestitus (Lesson, 1843) | Sumatra, Belitung I. and Borneo | ||
| A. f. perplexus (Riley, 1927) | Maratua Arch. (off ne Borneo) | ||
| A. f. fuciphagus (Thunberg, 1812) | Java, Kangean I. and w lesser Sundas | ||
| A. f. dammermani (Rensch, 1931) | Flores (c Lesser Sundas) | ||
| A. f. micans (Stresemann, 1914) | Sumba, Sawu and Timor (sc Lesser Sundas) | ||
| Germain's Swiftlet | Aerodramus germani (Oustalet, 1876) |
OR : Southeast Asia, Borneo, Philippines |
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| A. g. germani (Oustalet, 1876) | Southeast Asia, Borneo, Philippines | ||
| A. g. amechanus (Oberholser, 1912) |
Anambas Is. (off se Malay Pen.) |
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| Three-toed Swiftlet | Aerodramus papuensis (Rand, 1941) | AU : New Guinea | |
| Scarce Swift | Schoutedenapus myoptilus (Salvadori, 1888) | AF : e, ec | |
| S. m. myoptilus (Salvadori, 1888) | Ethiopia to Zimbabwe | ||
| S. m. poensis (Alexander, 1903) | Bioko I. (Gulf of Guinea) | ||
| S. m. chapini (Prigogine, 1957) | e DR Congo, Rwanda and sw Uganda | ||
| Schouteden's Swift | Schoutedenapus schoutedeni (Prigogine, 1960) | AF : e DR Congo | |
| Philippine Spine-tailed Swift | Mearnsia picina (Tweeddale, 1879) | OR : s Philippines | |
| Papuan Spine-tailed Swift | Mearnsia novaeguineae (d'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879) | AU : New Guinea | |
| M. n. buergersi (Reichenow, 1917) | n New Guinea | ||
| M. n. novaeguineae (d'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879) | s New Guinea | ||
| Madagascar Spinetail | Zoonavena grandidieri (Verreaux, J, 1867) | AF : Madagascar | |
| Z. g. grandidieri (Verreaux, J, 1867) | Madagascar | ||
| Z. g. mariae (Benson, 1960) | Grand Comoro I. | ||
| Sao Tome Spinetail | Zoonavena thomensis (Hartert, 1900) | AF : São Tomé, Principe | |
| White-rumped Spinetail | Zoonavena sylvatica (Tickell, 1846) | OR : Nepal, India | |
| Mottled Spinetail | Telacanthura ussheri (Sharpe, 1870) | AF : widespread | |
| T. u. ussheri (Sharpe, 1870) | Senegal and Gambia to Nigeria | ||
| T. u. sharpei (Neumann, 1908) | Cameroon and Gabon through DR Congo to Uganda | ||
| T. u. stictilaema (Reichenow, 1879) | s Kenya, ne and c Tanzania | ||
| T. u. benguellensis (Neumann, 1908) | w Angola to Mozambique | ||
| Black Spinetail | Telacanthura melanopygia (Chapin, 1915) | AF : w, c | |
| Silver-rumped Spinetail | Rhaphidura leucopygialis (Blyth, 1849) | OR : Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas | |
| Sabine's Spinetail | Rhaphidura sabini (Gray, JE, 1829) | AF : w, c | |
| Cassin's Spinetail | Neafrapus cassini (Sclater, PL, 1863) | AF : w, c | |
| Böhm's Spinetail | Neafrapus boehmi (Schalow, 1882) | AF : e, se | |
| N. b. boehmi (Schalow, 1882) | Angola to w Tanzania and n Zambia | ||
| N. b. sheppardi (Roberts, 1922) | se Kenya and e Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and ne South Africa | ||
| White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus (Latham, 1802) | EU : e, s Asia | |
| H. c. caudacutus (Latham, 1802) | c Siberia to Japan and Kuril Is. | ||
| H. c. nudipes (Hodgson, 1837) | Himalayas and ne India to sw and s China | ||
| Silver-backed Needletail | Hirundapus cochinchinensis (Oustalet, 1878) | OR : widespread | |
| Brown-backed Needletail | Hirundapus giganteus (Temminck, 1825) | OR : widespread | |
| H. g. indicus (Hume, 1873) | sw India and Sri Lanka; e India and Bangladesh to SE Asia; Andaman Is. | ||
| H. g. giganteus (Temminck, 1825) | Malay Pen., Greater Sundas and Palawan | ||
| Purple Needletail | Hirundapus celebensis (Sclater, PL, 1866) | OR, AU : Philippines, n Sulawesi | |
| Lesser Antillean Swift | Chaetura martinica (Hermann, 1783) | NA : Lesser Antilles | |
| Band-rumped Swift | Chaetura spinicaudus (Temminck, 1839) | LA : Panama to c Brazil | |
| C. s. aetherodroma Wetmore, 1951 | Panama to w Colombia and w Ecuador | ||
| C. s. spinicaudus (Temminck, 1839) | e Venezuela, the Guianas and n and c Brazil | ||
| Costa Rican Swift | Chaetura fumosa Salvin, 1870 | MA : Costa Rica, Panama | |
| Pale-rumped Swift | Chaetura egregia Todd, 1916 | SA : w Amazonia | |
| Grey-rumped Swift | Chaetura cinereiventris Sclater, PL, 1862 | LA : widespread | |
| C. c. phaeopygos Hellmayr, 1906 | e Nicaragua to Panama | ||
| C. c. lawrencei Ridgway, 1893 | n Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada and Margarita I. | ||
| C. c. schistacea Todd, 1937 | e Colombia, w Venezuela | ||
| C. c. guianensis Hartert, 1892 | e Venezuela, w Guyana | ||
| C. c. occidentalis Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 | w Colombia, w Ecuador and nw Peru | ||
| C. c. sclateri Pelzeln, 1868 | s Colombia and s Venezuela to nw Brazil, e Peru and nw Bolivia | ||
| C. c. cinereiventris Sclater, PL, 1862 | e Brazil, Paraguay and ne Argentina | ||
| Vaux's Swift | Chaetura vauxi (Townsend, JK, 1839) | NA, LA : w Canada to n SA | |
| C. v. vauxi (Townsend, JK, 1839) | w Canada to sw USA | ||
| C. v. tamaulipensis Sutton, 1941 | e Mexico | ||
| C. v. richmondi Ridgway, 1910 | s Mexico to Costa Rica | ||
| C. v. gaumeri Lawrence, 1882 | Yucatan Pen. and Cozumel I. (Mexico) | ||
| C. v. ochropygia Aldrich, 1937 | e Panama | ||
| C. v. aphanes Wetmore & Phelps Jr, 1956 | n Venezuela | ||
| C. v. andrei Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 | e Venezuela | ||
| Sick's Swift | Chaetura meridionalis Hellmayr, 1907 | SA : c, se | ENG : Change English name of Chaetura meridionalis to Sick‘s Swift from Ashy-tailed Swift C. andrei (SACC, NACC 2010-A8) |
| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758) | NA : e, c | |
| Chapman's Swift | Chaetura chapmani Hellmayr, 1907 | LA : Panama to ne Brazil | |
| Mato Grosso Swift | Chaetura viridipennis Cherrie, 1916 | SA : w Amazonia | |
| Short-tailed Swift | Chaetura brachyura (Jardine, 1846) | LA : Panama through Amazonia | TAX : Short-tailed Swift includes C.b.ocypetes, treated as a species (Tumbes Swift) by Ridgely and Greenfield (2001) |
| C. b. praevelox Bangs & Penard, TE, 1918 | Granada, St. Vincent and Tobago (s lesser Antilles) | ||
| C. b. brachyura (Jardine, 1846) | Panama to Trinidad and the Guianas south to wc Brazil and n Bolivia | ||
| C. b. ocypetes Zimmer, 1953 | sw Ecuador, nw Peru | ||
| C. b. cinereocauda (Cassin, 1850) | nc Brazil | ||
| White-throated Swift | Aeronautes saxatalis (Woodhouse, 1853) | NA, MA : w | |
| A. s. saxatalis (Woodhouse, 1853) | sw Canada to w Mexico | ||
| A. s. nigrior Dickey & van Rossem, 1928 | s Mexico to c Honduras | ||
| White-tipped Swift | Aeronautes montivagus (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | SA : Venezuela to nw Argentina | |
| A. m. montivagus (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | n Venezuela south to n Bolivia and nw Argentina | ||
| A. m. tatei (Chapman, 1929) | s Venezuela, n Brazil | ||
| Andean Swift | Aeronautes andecolus (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | SA : Peru to c Argentina | |
| A. a. parvulus (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1892) | w Peru to c Chile | ||
| A. a. peruvianus (Chapman, 1919) | se Peru | ||
| A. a. andecolus (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | c Bolivia to w Argentina | ||
| Antillean Palm Swift | Tachornis phoenicobia Gosse, 1847 | NA : Greater Antilles | |
| T. p. iradii (Lembeye, 1850) | Cuba, Isle of Pine | ||
| T. p. phoenicobia Gosse, 1847 | Jamaica, Hispaniola | ||
| Pygmy Palm Swift | Tachornis furcata (Sutton, 1928) | SA : ne Colombia, w Venezuela | |
| T. f. furcata (Sutton, 1928) | ne Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| T. f. nigrodorsalis (Aveledo & Pons, 1952) | w Venezuela | ||
| Neotropical Palm Swift | Tachornis squamata (Cassin, 1853) | SA : Amazonia, e Brazil | |
| T. s. squamata (Cassin, 1853) | Trinidad, the Guianas to Amazonia and e Brazil | ||
| T. s. semota (Riley, 1933) | e Ecuador and ne Peru through e Colombia and nw Brazil to s and e Venezuela | ||
| Great Swallow-tailed Swift | Panyptila sanctihieronymi Salvin, 1863 | MA : sw Mexico to Honduras | |
| Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift | Panyptila cayennensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | LA : widespread | |
| P. c. veraecrucis Moore, RT, 1947 | se Mexico to n Honduras | ||
| P. c. cayennensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | s Honduras to n Bolivia and se Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| African Palm Swift | Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823) | AF : widespread | |
| C. p. parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823) | Senegal and Gambia to n Ethiopia and sw Arabia | ||
| C. p. brachypterus (Reichenow, 1903) | Sierra Leone to ne DR Congo and Angola, islands in the Gulf of Guinea | ||
| C. p. myochrous (Reichenow, 1886) | s Sudan to ne South Africa | ||
| C. p. laemostigma (Reichenow, 1905) | s Somalia to c Mozambique | ||
| C. p. griveaudi Benson, 1960 | Comoro Is. | ||
| C. p. gracilis (Sharpe, 1871) | Madagascar | ||
| C. p. hyphaenes Brooke, 1972 | n Namibia and n Botswana | ||
| C. p. celer Clancey, 1983 | s Mozambique to e South Africa | ||
| Asian Palm Swift | Cypsiurus balasiensis (Gray, JE, 1829) | OR : widespread | |
| C. b. balasiensis (Gray, JE, 1829) | Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka | ||
| C. b. infumatus (Sclater, PL, 1866) | ne India to Indochina, Malay Pen., Sumatra and Borneo | ||
| C. b. bartelsorum Brooke, 1972 | Java and Bali | ||
| C. b. pallidior (McGregor, 1905) | Philippine Is. | ||
| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba (Linnaeus, 1758) | EU, AF : widespread, also India | |
| T. m. melba (Linnaeus, 1758) | s Europe through Turkey to nw Iran | ||
| T. m. tuneti (Tschusi, 1904) | Morocco through the Middle East and e to w Pakistan | ||
| T. m. archeri (Hartert, 1928) | n Somalia, sw Arabia to Jordan and Israel | ||
| T. m. maximus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1907) | Ruwenzori Mts. (ne DR Congo, Uganda) | ||
| T. m. africanus (Temminck, 1815) | Ethiopia to South Africa and sw Angola | ||
| T. m. marjoriae (Bradfield, 1935) | nc Namibia, nw South Africa | ||
| T. m. willsi (Hartert, 1896) | Madagascar | ||
| T. m. nubifugus (Koelz, 1954) | Himalayas | ||
| T. m. bakeri (Hartert, 1928) | Sri Lanka | ||
| Mottled Swift | Tachymarptis aequatorialis (von Müller, JW, 1851) | AF : widespread | |
| T. a. lowei (Bannerman, 1920) | Sierra Leone to Nigeria | ||
| T. a. bamendae (Serle, 1949) | nw Cameroon | ||
| T. a. furensis (Lynes, 1920) | w Sudan | ||
| T. a. aequatorialis (von Müller, JW, 1851) | Eritrea and Ethiopia through e Africa to s Mozambique and e Zimbabwe, wc Angola | ||
| T. a. gelidus (Brooke, 1967) | w Zimbabwe | ||
| Cape Verde Swift | Apus alexandri Hartert, 1901 | AF : Cape Verde Islands | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758) | EU : widespread | |
| A. a. apus (Linnaeus, 1758) | w Europe and n Africa to c Siberia | ||
| A. a. pekinensis (Swinhoe, 1870) | Iran to n China and Mongolia | ||
| Plain Swift | Apus unicolor (Jardine, 1830) | AF : Morocco, Canary Islands, Madeira | |
| Nyanza Swift | Apus niansae (Reichenow, 1887) | AF : e | |
| A. n. niansae (Reichenow, 1887) | Eritrea and Ethiopia to Tanzania | ||
| A. n. somalicus (Clarke, S, 1919) | n Somalia | ||
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus (Shelley, 1870) | EU, AF : s Europe, Arabian Peninsula, n AF | |
| A. p. brehmorum Hartert, 1901 | Madeira and Canary Is., coastal n Africa, s Europe to Turkey | ||
| A. p. illyricus Tschusi, 1907 | nw coast of the Balkan Pen. | ||
| A. p. pallidus (Shelley, 1870) | Mauritania through Egypt and the Middle East to Pakistan | ||
| African Black Swift | Apus barbatus (Sclater, PL, 1866) | AF : s, e | |
| A. b. glanvillei Benson, 1967 | Sierra Leone | ||
| A. b. serlei De Roo, 1970 | w Cameroon | ||
| A. b. roehli Reichenow, 1906 | e Ethiopia through Kenya and Uganda to ne Angola, e DR Congo and Malawi | ||
| A. b. hollidayi Benson & Irwin, 1960 | Victoria Falls (Zambia/Zimbabwe) | ||
| A. b. oreobates Brooke, 1970 | Zimbabwe to Mozambique | ||
| A. b. barbatus (Sclater, PL, 1866) | South Africa | ||
| Malagasy Black Swift | Apus balstoni (Bartlett, 1880) | AF : Madagascar region | |
| A. b. mayottensis (Nicoll, 1906) | Comoro Is. | ||
| A. b. balstoni (Bartlett, 1880) | Madagascar | ||
| Fernando Po Swift | Apus sladeniae (Ogilvie-Grant, 1904) | AF : w | |
| Forbes-Watson's Swift | Apus berliozi Ripley, 1965 | AF : e | |
| A. b. berliozi Ripley, 1965 | Socotra I. | ||
| A. b. bensoni Brooke, 1969 | e Somalia | ||
| Bradfield's Swift | Apus bradfieldi (Roberts, 1926) | AF : sw | |
| A. b. bradfieldi (Roberts, 1926) | sw Angola, Namibia | ||
| A. b. deserticola Brooke, 1970 | n South Africa | ||
| Pacific Swift | Apus pacificus (Latham, 1802) | EU : e | ENG : CHANGE English name of Apus pacificus to Pacific Swift; reserve Fork-tailed Swift for species group (Leader 2011) |
| A. p. pacificus (Latham, 1802) | Siberia to Kamchatka, n China and Japan | ||
| A. p. kurodae (Domaniewski, 1933) | se Tibet to e China, Taiwan | ||
| Salim Ali's Swift | Apus salimalii Lack, 1958 | EU : e Tibetan Plateau and adjacent w Sichuan. | AS : Salim Ali‘s Swift Apus salimalii is split from Pacific [Fork-tailed] Swift A.pacificus(Leader 2011) |
| Blyth's Swift | Apus leuconyx (Blyth, 1845) | EU, OR : mid to high altitudes in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and north-east India | AS : Blyth‘s Swift Apus leuconyx is split from Pacific [Fork-tailed] Swift A.pacificus(Leader 2011) |
| Cook's Swift | Apus cooki (Harington, 1913) | OR : lowland Myanmar, n Thailand, Vietnam and Guangxi, China | AS : Cook‘s Swift Apus cooki is split from Pacific [Fork-tailed] Swift A.pacificus(Leader 2011) |
| Dark-rumped Swift | Apus acuticauda (Jerdon, 1864) | OR : ne India, Burma | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis (Gray, JE, 1830) | AF : also sw Asia and India | |
| A. a. galilejensis (Antinori, 1855) | nw Africa to Pakistan, e Sudan to nw Somalia | ||
| A. a. bannermani Hartert, 1928 | Gulf of Guinea islands | ||
| A. a. aerobates Brooke, 1969 | Mauritania to Somalia and south to e South Africa | ||
| A. a. theresae Meinertzhagen, 1949 | w and s Angola and s Zambia to South Africa | ||
| A. a. affinis (Gray, JE, 1830) | s Somalia to Mozambique | ||
| A. a. singalensis Madarász, 1911 | s India, Sri Lanka | ||
| House Swift | Apus nipalensis (Hodgson, 1837) | OR : also s Japan | |
| A. n. nipalensis (Hodgson, 1837) | Himalayas to Japan and se China south to Burma, se Asia and the Philippines | ||
| A. n. subfurcatus (Blyth, 1849) | Malay Pen. to Borneo, Sumatra and nearby islands | ||
| A. n. furcatus Brooke, 1971 | Java and Bali | ||
| A. n. kuntzi Deignan, 1958 | Taiwan | ||
| Horus Swift | Apus horus (Heuglin, 1869) | AF : widespread | |
| A. h. horus (Heuglin, 1869) | Nigeria and Cameroon to Ethiopia through e DR Congo and Zambia to South Africa | ||
| A. h. fuscobrunneus Brooke, 1971 | sw Angola | ||
| White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer (Lichtenstein, 1823) | AF : widespread | |
| Bates's Swift | Apus batesi (Sharpe, 1904) | AF : w, c | |
Hummingbirds (342) |
Family Trochilidae |
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| Saw-billed Hermit | Ramphodon naevius (Dumont, 1818) | SA : se Brazil | |
| White-tipped Sicklebill | Eutoxeres aquila (Bourcier, 1847) | LA : Costa Rica to n Peru | |
| E. a. salvini Gould, 1868 | e Costa Rica to w Colombia | ||
| E. a. heterurus Gould, 1868 | sw Colombia to w Ecuador | ||
| E. a. aquila (Bourcier, 1847) | e Colombia to n Peru | ||
| Buff-tailed Sicklebill | Eutoxeres condamini (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : se Colombia to nw Bolivia | |
| E. c. condamini (Bourcier, 1851) | se Colombia to n Peru | ||
| E. c. gracilis Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902 | c Peru to nw Bolivia | ||
| Hook-billed Hermit | Glaucis dohrnii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) | SA : se Brazil | |
| Rufous-breasted Hermit | Glaucis hirsutus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | LA : Panama to se Brazil | |
| G. h. insularum Hellmayr & Seilern, 1913 | Grenada, Trinidad, Tobago | ||
| G. h. hirsutus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | Panama and w Colombia through Venezuela and the Guianas to Brazil and n Bolivia | ||
| Bronzy Hermit | Glaucis aeneus Lawrence, 1868 | LA : Honduras to Ecuador | |
| Band-tailed Barbthroat | Threnetes ruckeri (Bourcier, 1847) | LA : Guatemala to Venezuela and Ecuador | |
| T. r. ruckeri (Bourcier, 1847) | n and w Colombia, e Ecuador | ||
| T. r. venezuelensis Cory, 1913 | nw Venezuela | ||
| T. r. ventosus Bangs & Penard, TE, 1924 | e Guatemala and Belize to Panama | ||
| Sooty Barbthroat | Threnetes niger (Linnaeus, 1758) | SA : French Guiana, ne Brazil | ENG : Change English name of Threnetes niger from Pale-tailed Barbthroat to Sooty Barbthroat to follow SACC (2003) re T. leucurus |
| T. n. niger (Linnaeus, 1758) | French Guiana, ne Brazil | ||
| T. n. loehkeni Grantsau, 1969 |
ne Brazil (n of the Amazon) |
Ssp loehkeni treated as a subspecies of T. niger following SACC 77 | |
| Pale-tailed Barbthroat | Threnetes leucurus (Linnaeus, 1766) | SA : Amazonia | TAX : Threnetes leucurus may be conspecific with T.niger (Hinkelmann and Schuchmann 1997); BLI recognizes, SACC 77 declined to lump. |
| T. l. cervinicauda Gould, 1855 | e Colombia, e Ecuador, e Peru and w Brazil | ||
| T. l. rufigastra Cory, 1915 | c Peru to nw Bolivia | ||
| T. l. leucurus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Venezuela to Suriname, Amazonian Brazil, n Bolivia | ||
| T. l. medianus Hellmayr, 1929 | ne Brazil (s of the Amazon) | ||
| Broad-tipped Hermit | Anopetia gounellei (Boucard, 1891) | SA : e Brazil | |
| White-whiskered Hermit | Phaethornis yaruqui (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : w Colombia, Ecuador | |
| Green Hermit | Phaethornis guy (Lesson, 1833) | LA : Costa Rica to se Peru | |
| P. g. apicalis (Tschudi, 1844) | n Colombia and nw Venezuela to se Peru | ||
| P. g. coruscus Bangs, 1902 | Costa Rica to nw Colombia | ||
| P. g. emiliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | wc Colombia | ||
| P. g. guy (Lesson, 1833) | ne Venezuela, Trinidad | ||
| White-bearded Hermit | Phaethornis hispidus (Gould, 1846) | SA : w, c Amazonia | |
| Long-billed Hermit | Phaethornis longirostris (Delattre, 1843) | LA : s Mexico to n Colombia,w Ecuador, nw Peru | TAX : Baron‘s Hermit Phaethornis baroni is considered conspecific with Long-billed Hermit P. longirostris (SACC 136) |
| P. l. griseoventer Phillips, AR, 1962 | Nayarit to Colima (w Mexico) | ||
| P. l. mexicanus Hartert, 1897 | Guerrero to w Oaxaca (sw Mexico) | ||
| P. l. longirostris (Delattre, 1843) | se Veracruz to Chiapas (s Mexico) to n Honduras | ||
| P. l. cephalus (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | e Honduras to nw Colombia | ||
| P. l. susurrus Bangs, 1901 | n Colombia | ||
| P. l. baroni Hartert, 1897 | w Ecuador, nw Peru | ||
| Long-tailed Hermit | Phaethornis superciliosus (Linnaeus, 1766) | SA : e Amazonia | |
| P. s. superciliosus (Linnaeus, 1766) | s Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil (n of the Amazon) | ||
| P. s. muelleri Hellmayr, 1911 | n Brazil (s of the Amazon) | ||
| Great-billed Hermit | Phaethornis malaris (Nordmann, 1835) | SA : Amazonia, e Brazil | |
| P. m. malaris (Nordmann, 1835) | the Guianas, n Brazil | ||
| P. m. insolitus Zimmer, 1950 | e Colombia, s Venezuela, n Brazil | ||
| P. m. moorei Lawrence, 1858 | e Colombia, e Ecuador, n Peru | ||
| P. m. ochraceiventris Hellmayr, 1907 | ne Peru, w Brazil | ||
| P. m. bolivianus Gould, 1861 | se Peru, Bolivia, w Brazil | ||
| P. m. margarettae Ruschi, 1972 | e Brazil | ||
| Tawny-bellied Hermit | Phaethornis syrmatophorus Gould, 1852 | SA : Colombia to Peru | |
| P. s. syrmatophorus Gould, 1852 | w Colombia, sw Ecuador | ||
| P. s. columbianus Boucard, 1891 | e Colombia, e Ecuador, n Peru | ||
| Koepcke's Hermit | Phaethornis koepckeae Weske & Terborgh, 1977 | SA : Peru | |
| Needle-billed Hermit | Phaethornis philippii (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : w Amazonia | |
| Straight-billed Hermit | Phaethornis bourcieri (Lesson, 1832) | SA : n Amazonia | |
| P. b. bourcieri (Lesson, 1832) | e Colombia, s Venezuela, the Guianas, n Brazil (n of the Amazon) and n Peru | ||
| P. b. major Hinkelmann, 1989 | Brazil (s of the Amazon) | ||
| Pale-bellied Hermit | Phaethornis anthophilus (Bourcier, 1843) | LA : Panama to Venezuela | |
| P. a. hyalinus Bangs, 1901 | Pearl Is. (Panama) | ||
| P. a. anthophilus (Bourcier, 1843) | c Panama, n Colombia and n Venezuela | ||
| Scale-throated Hermit | Phaethornis eurynome (Lesson, 1832) | SA : se | |
| P. e. eurynome (Lesson, 1832) | se Brazil | ||
| P. e. paraguayensis Bertoni, M & Bertoni, W, 1901 | e Paraguay, ne Argentina | ||
| Planalto Hermit | Phaethornis pretrei (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | SA : e, c | |
| Sooty-capped Hermit | Phaethornis augusti (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : n | |
| P. a. curiosus Wetmore, 1956 | Santa Marta Mts. (ne Colombia) | ||
| P. a. augusti (Bourcier, 1847) | e Colombia, n Venezuela | ||
| P. a. incanescens (Simon, 1921) | s Venezuela, w Guyana | ||
| Buff-bellied Hermit | Phaethornis subochraceus Todd, 1915 | SA : c | |
| Dusky-throated Hermit | Phaethornis squalidus (Temminck, 1822) | SA : se Brazil | |
| Streak-throated Hermit | Phaethornis rupurumii Boucard, 1892 | SA : n, e Amazonia | |
| P. r. rupurumii Boucard, 1892 | e Colombia, Venezuela, w Guyana, nw Brazil | ||
| P. r. amazonicus Hellmayr, 1906 | nc Brazil | ||
| Little Hermit | Phaethornis longuemareus (Lesson, 1832) | SA : ne | |
| Minute Hermit | Phaethornis idaliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1856) | SA : se Brazil | |
| Cinnamon-throated Hermit | Phaethornis nattereri Berlepsch, 1887 | SA : e Bolivia, sw and e Brazil | |
| Reddish Hermit | Phaethornis ruber (Linnaeus, 1758) | SA : widespread | |
| P. r. episcopus Gould, 1857 | c and e Venezuela, Guyana, nw Brazil | ||
| P. r. ruber (Linnaeus, 1758) | Suriname and French Guiana through Brazil to se Peru and n Bolivia | ||
| P. r. nigricinctus Lawrence, 1858 | e Colonbia and sw Venezuela to n Peru | ||
| P. r. longipennis Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902 | s Peru | ||
| White-browed Hermit | Phaethornis stuarti Hartert, 1897 | SA : se Peru, c Bolivia | |
| Black-throated Hermit | Phaethornis atrimentalis Lawrence, 1858 | SA : Colombia to n Peru | |
| P. a. atrimentalis Lawrence, 1858 | Colombia, Ecuador, n Peru | ||
| P. a. riojae Berlepsch, 1889 | c Peru | ||
| Tapajos Hermit | Phaethornis aethopyga Zimmer, 1950 | SA : Tapajós-Xingu interfluvium in Brazil (Para) | NEW : Tapajos Hermit is a distinct species, not a hybrid as previously proposed (Piacentini et al. 2009, SACC 442) |
| Stripe-throated Hermit | Phaethornis striigularis Gould, 1854 | LA : s Mexico to Venezuela and w Ecuador | |
| P. s. saturatus Ridgway, 1910 | s Mexico to nw Colombia | ||
| P. s. subrufescens Chapman, 1917 | w Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| P. s. striigularis Gould, 1854 | n Colombia, w Venezuela | ||
| P. s. ignobilis Todd, 1913 | n Venezuela | ||
| Grey-chinned Hermit | Phaethornis griseogularis Gould, 1851 | SA : w, n Amazonia, nw Peru | |
| P. g. griseogularis Gould, 1851 | s and e Colombia, s Venezuela and nw Brazil to e Ecuador and e Peru | ||
| P. g. zonura Gould, 1860 | Andean east slope in nw Peru | ||
| P. g. porcullae Carriker, 1935 | Andean west slope in nw Peru, sw Ecuador | ||
| Tooth-billed Hummingbird | Androdon aequatorialis Gould, 1863 | LA : e Panama to nw Ecuador | |
| Green-fronted Lancebill | Doryfera ludovicae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1847) | LA : Costa Rica to Venezuela and nw Bolivia | |
| D. l. veraguensis Salvin, 1867 | Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| D. l. ludovicae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1847) | e Panama, Colombia and w Venezuela to nw Bolivia | ||
| Blue-fronted Lancebill | Doryfera johannae (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : n, nw Amazonia | |
| D. j. johannae (Bourcier, 1847) | se Colombia, e Ecuador, ne Peru | ||
| D. j. guianensis (Boucard, 1893) | s Venezuela, s Guyana, n Brazil | ||
| Scaly-breasted Hummingbird | Phaeochroa cuvierii (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | LA : se Mexico to n Colombia | TAX : Separate Scaly-breasted Hummingbird from Campylopterus to Phaeochroa (NACC) |
| P. c. roberti (Salvin, 1861) | se Mexico to ne Costa Rica | ||
| P. c. maculicauda (Griscom, 1932) | Pacific slope of Costa Rica | ||
| P. c. furvescens Wetmore, 1967 | Pacific slope of w Panama | ||
| P. c. saturatior (Hartert, 1901) | Coiba I. (Panama) | ||
| P. c. cuvierii (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | e and c Panama | ||
| P. c. berlepschi Hellmayr, 1915 | n Colombia | ||
| Curve-winged Sabrewing | Campylopterus curvipennis (Deppe, 1830) | MA : ec Mexico from se San Luis Potosi to Veracruz, ne Puebla, n Oaxaca | ENG : Change English name of C.curvipennis with split of C.pampa; name follows Ridgway, Sibley & Monroe 1993, AOU 1998 |
| Wedge-tailed Sabrewing | Campylopterus pampa (Lesson, 1832) | MA : Yucatan to Guatemala and Belize,ne Honduras | AS : C. pampa is split from C. curvipennis (Peterson & Navarro-Sigüenza 2009, Gonzalez et al 2011) |
| Long-tailed Sabrewing | Campylopterus excellens (Wetmore, 1941) | MA : s Mexico | |
| Grey-breasted Sabrewing | Campylopterus largipennis (Boddaert, 1783) | SA : Amazonia | |
| C. l. largipennis (Boddaert, 1783) | e Venezuela, the Guianas, n Brazil | ||
| C. l. obscurus Gould, 1848 | ne Brazil | ||
| C. l. aequatorialis Gould, 1861 | e Colombia and nw Brazil to n Bolivia | ||
| C. l. diamantinensis Ruschi, 1963 | se Brazil | ||
| Rufous Sabrewing | Campylopterus rufus Lesson, 1840 | MA : sw Mexico to El Salvador | |
| Rufous-breasted Sabrewing | Campylopterus hyperythrus Cabanis, 1849 | SA : Tepuis | |
| Violet Sabrewing | Campylopterus hemileucurus (Deppe, 1830) | MA : s Mexico to Panama | |
| C. h. hemileucurus (Deppe, 1830) | s Mexico to sc Nicaragua | ||
| C. h. mellitus Bangs, 1902 | Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| White-tailed Sabrewing | Campylopterus ensipennis (Swainson, 1822) | SA : ne Venezuela | |
| Lazuline Sabrewing | Campylopterus falcatus (Swainson, 1821) | SA : ne Venezuela to ne Ecuador | |
| Santa Marta Sabrewing | Campylopterus phainopeplus Salvin & Godman, 1879 | SA : ne Colombia | |
| Napo Sabrewing | Campylopterus villaviscensio (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : s Colombia to ne Peru | |
| Buff-breasted Sabrewing | Campylopterus duidae Chapman, 1929 | SA : Tepuis | |
| C. d. duidae Chapman, 1929 | s Venezuela, n Brazil | ||
| C. d. guaiquinimae Zimmer & Phelps, 1946 | Mt. Guaiquinima (s Venezuela) | ||
| Sombre Hummingbird | Aphantochroa cirrochloris (Vieillot, 1818) | SA : se, e Brazil | |
| Swallow-tailed Hummingbird | Eupetomena macroura (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : ne, e, c | |
| E. m. macroura (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | the Guianas, n, c and se Brazil, Paraguay | ||
| E. m. simoni Hellmayr, 1929 | ne Brazil | ||
| E. m. cyanoviridis Grantsau, 1988 | se Brazi | ||
| E. m. hirundo Gould, 1875 | e Peru | ||
| E. m. boliviana Zimmer, 1950 | nw Bolivia | ||
| White-necked Jacobin | Florisuga mellivora (Linnaeus, 1758) | LA : s Mexico through Amazonia | |
| F. m. mellivora (Linnaeus, 1758) | s Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil, Trinidad | ||
| F. m. flabellifera (Gould, 1846) | Tobago I. | ||
| Black Jacobin | Florisuga fusca (Vieillot, 1817) | SA : e, se | |
| Brown Violetear | Colibri delphinae (Lesson, 1839) | LA : Guatemala to n and w SA | |
| Green Violetear | Colibri thalassinus (Swainson, 1827) | LA : c Mexico to n and w SA | |
| C. t. thalassinus (Swainson, 1827) | c Mexico to nc Nicaragua | ||
| C. t. cabanidis (Heine, 1863) | Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| C. t. cyanotus (Bourcier, 1843) | Colombia, nw Venezuela, Ecuador | ||
| C. t. kerdeli Aveledo & Perez, 1991 | ne Venezuela | ||
| C. t. crissalis Todd, 1942 | Peru, Bolivia and nw Argentina | ||
| Sparkling Violetear | Colibri coruscans (Gould, 1846) | SA : n, w | |
| C. c. coruscans (Gould, 1846) | nw Venezuela and Colombia to nw Argentina | ||
| C. c. rostratus Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1952 | mts. of Amazonas (s Venezuela) | ||
| C. c. germanus (Salvin & Godman, 1884) | se Venezuela, Guyana, n Brazil | ||
| White-vented Violetear | Colibri serrirostris (Vieillot, 1816) | SA : se, c | |
| Green-throated Mango | Anthracothorax viridigula (Boddaert, 1783) | SA : ne | |
| Green-breasted Mango | Anthracothorax prevostii (Lesson, 1832) | LA : e Mexico to n and nw SA | |
| A. p. prevostii (Lesson, 1832) | e Mexico to Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador | ||
| A. p. gracilirostris Ridgway, 1910 | El Salvador to c Costa Rica | ||
| A. p. hendersoni (Cory, 1887) | San Andrés and Providencia Is. (off e Nicaragua) | ||
| A. p. viridicordatus Cory, 1913 | ne Colombia, n Venezuela | ||
| A. p. iridescens (Gould, 1861) | w Colombia, sw Ecuador and nw Peru | ||
| Black-throated Mango | Anthracothorax nigricollis (Vieillot, 1817) | LA : w Panama to ne Argentina | |
| Veraguan Mango | Anthracothorax veraguensis Reichenbach, 1855 | MA : Panama | |
| Antillean Mango | Anthracothorax dominicus (Linnaeus, 1766) | NA : Hispaniola to Virgin Islands | |
| A. d. dominicus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Hispaniola and nearby islands | ||
| A. d. aurulentus (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is. and nearby islands | ||
| Green Mango | Anthracothorax viridis (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | NA : Puerto Rico | |
| Jamaican Mango | Anthracothorax mango (Linnaeus, 1758) | NA : Jamaica | |
| Fiery-tailed Awlbill | Avocettula recurvirostris (Swainson, 1822) | SA : Amazonia | |
| Crimson Topaz | Topaza pella (Linnaeus, 1758) | SA : ne Amazonia | |
| T. p. pella (Linnaeus, 1758) | e Venezuela, n Brazil, Guyana and Suriname | ||
| T. p. smaragdulus (Bosc, 1792) | French Guiana, ne Brazil (n of the Amazon) | ||
| T. p. microrhyncha Butler, AL, 1926 | nc Brazil (s of the Amazon) | ||
| Fiery Topaz | Topaza pyra (Gould, 1846) | SA : w Amazonia | |
| T. p. pyra (Gould, 1846) | e Colombia, s Venezuela, nw Brazil | ||
| T. p. amaruni Hu, Joseph & Agro, 2000 | e Ecuador, ne Peru | ||
| Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis (Linnaeus, 1766) | NA : Lesser Antilles | |
| Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus (Linnaeus, 1758) | NA : Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles | |
| E. h. holosericeus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Puerto Rico and most of the Lesser Antilles | ||
| E. h. chlorolaemus Gould, 1857 | Grenada I. (s Lesser Antilles) | ||
| Ruby-topaz Hummingbird | Chrysolampis mosquitus (Linnaeus, 1758) | LA : e Panama to n, e, c SA | ENG : CHANGE English name of Chrysolampis mosquitus to Ruby-topaz Hummingbird; alternative name Ruby Topaz under consideration (SACC) |
| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | NA : Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles | |
| O. c. exilis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | Puerto Rico through the Lesser Antilles to St. Lucia | ||
| O. c. ornatus Gould, 1861 | St, Vincent I. (s Lesser Antilles) | ||
| O. c. cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Barbados I. (s Lesser Antilles) | ||
| O. c. emigrans Lawrence, 1877 | Grenada and the Grenadine Is. (s Lesser Antilles) | ||
| Violet-headed Hummingbird | Klais guimeti (Bourcier, 1843) | LA : e Honduras to w, n Amazonia | |
| K. g. merrittii (Lawrence, 1861) | e Honduras to e Panama | ||
| K. g. guimeti (Bourcier, 1843) | e Colombia and n Venezuela to e Ecuador, ne Peru and nw Brazil | ||
| K. g. pallidiventris Stolzmann, 1926 | e Peru, w Bolivia | ||
| Plovercrest | Stephanoxis lalandi (Vieillot, 1818) | SA : se | ENG : Simplify English name of Stephanoxis lalandi to Plovercrest; add modifiers when split |
| S. l. lalandi (Vieillot, 1818) | e Brazil | ||
| S. l. loddigesii (Gould, 1831) | e Paraguay, s Brazil and ne Argentina | ||
| Emerald-chinned Hummingbird | Abeillia abeillei (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | MA : se Mexico to n Nicaragua | |
| A. a. abeillei (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | se Mexico to n Honduras | ||
| A. a. aurea Miller, W & Griscom, 1925 | s Honduras and n Nicaragua | ||
| Tufted Coquette | Lophornis ornatus (Boddaert, 1783) | SA : ne | |
| Dot-eared Coquette | Lophornis gouldii (Lesson, 1832) | SA : ne, c Brazil | |
| Frilled Coquette | Lophornis magnificus (Vieillot, 1817) | SA : se | |
| Short-crested Coquette | Lophornis brachylophus Moore, RT, 1949 | MA : sw Mexico | |
| Rufous-crested Coquette | Lophornis delattrei (Lesson, 1839) | LA : s MA, w Amazonia | |
| L. d. lessoni Simon, 1921 | sw Costa Rica to c Colombia | ||
| L. d. delattrei (Lesson, 1839) | e Peru and n Bolivia | ||
| Spangled Coquette | Lophornis stictolophus Salvin & Elliot, 1873 | SA : w Venezuela to n Peru | |
| Festive Coquette | Lophornis chalybeus (Temminck, 1821) | SA : w Amazonia, se Brazil | |
| L. c. verreauxii Bourcier, 1853 | e Colombia to c Bolivia, nw Brazil | ||
| L. c. klagesi Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 | se Venezuela | ||
| L. c. chalybeus (Temminck, 1821) | se Brazil | ||
| Peacock Coquette | Lophornis pavoninus Salvin & Godman, 1882 | SA : Tepuis | |
| L. p. pavoninus Salvin & Godman, 1882 | Cerro Ptaretepui (se Venezuela), Mt. Roraima (se Venezuela.nc Brazil) and Merumé Mts. (Guyana) | ||
| L. p. duidae Chapman, 1929 | Mt. Duida (se Venezuela) | ||
| Black-crested Coquette | Lophornis helenae (Delattre, 1843) | MA : s Mexico to Costa Rica | |
| White-crested Coquette | Lophornis adorabilis Salvin, 1870 | MA : Costa Rica, Panama | |
| Wire-crested Thorntail | Discosura popelairii (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1846) | SA : e Colombia to ne Peru | |
| Black-bellied Thorntail | Discosura langsdorffi (Temminck, 1821) | SA : w Amazonia, se Brazil | |
| D. l. melanosternon (Gould, 1868) | se Colombia and s Venezuela to e Ecuador, e Peru and nw Brazil | ||
| D. l. langsdorffi (Temminck, 1821) | e Brazil | ||
| Letitia's Thorntail | Discosura letitiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) | SA : ne Bolivia | |
| Green Thorntail | Discosura conversii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | LA : Costa Rica to w Ecuador | |
| Racket-tailed Coquette | Discosura longicaudus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : ne SA, e Brazil | |
| Red-billed Streamertail | Trochilus polytmus Linnaeus, 1758 | NA : Jamaica | |
| Black-billed Streamertail | Trochilus scitulus (Brewster & Bangs, 1901) | NA : Jamaica | AS : Trochilus scitulus is split from T. polytmus (Schuchmann 1999) by H&M and BLI, but not by AOU |
| Blue-chinned Sapphire | Chlorestes notata (Reich, GC, 1793) | SA : Colombia to e Brazil, Amazonia | TAX : Change Scientific name from Chlorestes notatus to Chlorestes notata (David & Gosselin 2002); retain Chlorestes vs Chlorostilbon (see Stiles SACC 55) |
| C. n. notata (Reich, GC, 1793) | ne Colombia and Venezuela through the Guianas to e Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| C. n. puruensis (Riley, 1913) | nw Brazil, se Colombia and ne Peru | ||
| C. n. obsoleta Zimmer, 1950 | lower Rio Ucayali (ne Peru) | ||
| Golden-crowned Emerald | Chlorostilbon auriceps (Gould, 1852) | MA : w, c Mexico | |
| Cozumel Emerald | Chlorostilbon forficatus Ridgway, 1885 | MA : islands off Yucatan Peninsula | |
| Canivet's Emerald | Chlorostilbon canivetii (Lesson, 1832) | MA : se Mexico to Costa Rica | |
| C. c. canivetii (Lesson, 1832) | Tamaulipas (se Mexico) to Belize, n Guatemala and the Bay Is. (Honduras) | ||
| C. c. osberti Gould, 1860 | se Chiapas (se Mexico) to w Nicaragua | ||
| C. c. salvini (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) | w Costa Rica | ||
| Garden Emerald | Chlorostilbon assimilis Lawrence, 1861 | MA : sw Costa Rica, Panama | |
| Blue-tailed Emerald | Chlorostilbon mellisugus (Linnaeus, 1758) | SA : n, ne | |
| C. m. caribaeus Lawrence, 1871 | ne Venezuela, Trinidad, Netherlands Antilles | ||
| C. m. duidae Zimmer & Phelps, 1952 | Mt. Duida (s Venezuela) | ||
| C. m. subfurcatus Berlepsch, 1887 | s Venezuela, Guyana, and Rio Branco region (nw Brazil) | ||
| C. m. mellisugus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Suriname, French Guiana and ne Brazil | ||
| C. m. phoeopygus (Tschudi, 1844) | Upper Amazonia | ||
| C. m. peruanus Gould, 1861 | Peru, e Bolivia | ||
| Western Emerald | Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus Gould, 1860 | SA : w, nw | |
| C. m. pumilus Gould, 1872 | w Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| C. m. melanorhynchus Gould, 1860 | Andes of w Colombia and w and c Ecuador | ||
| Red-billed Emerald | Chlorostilbon gibsoni (Fraser, 1840) | SA : Colombia | |
| C. g. gibsoni (Fraser, 1840) | Upper Magdalena Valley (c Colombia) | ||
| C. g. chrysogaster (Bourcier, 1843) | Cartagena to Santa Marta (n Colombia) | ||
| C. g. nitens Lawrence, 1861 | ne Colombia | ||
| Chiribiquete Emerald | Chlorostilbon olivaresi Stiles, 1996 | SA : se Colombia | |
| Glittering-bellied Emerald | Chlorostilbon lucidus (Shaw, 1812) | SA : e, se, sc | TAX : Correct species name of Glittering-bellied Emerald is lucidus, not aureoventris (Pacheco & Whitney 2008, SACC 490) |
| C. l. pucherani (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | e Brazil | ||
| C. l. lucidus (Shaw, 1812) | Bolivia, Paraguay, wc Brazil and nw Argentina | ||
| C. l. berlepschi Pinto, 1938 | s Brazil, Uruguay, ne Argentina | ||
| Brace's Emerald | Chlorostilbon bracei † (Lawrence, 1877) | NA : n Bahamas | EXTINCT : Fuller, 2002. |
| Cuban Emerald | Chlorostilbon ricordii (Gervais, 1835) | NA : Cuba, Bahamas | |
| Hispaniolan Emerald | Chlorostilbon swainsonii (Lesson, 1829) | NA : Hispaniola | |
| Puerto Rican Emerald | Chlorostilbon maugaeus (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | NA : Puerto Rico | |
| Coppery Emerald | Chlorostilbon russatus (Salvin & Godman, 1881) | SA : ne Colombia, nw Venezuela | |
| Narrow-tailed Emerald | Chlorostilbon stenurus (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) | SA : Venezuela, Colombia, ne Ecuador | |
| C. s. stenurus (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) | ne Colombia, Trujillo, Mérida, Táchira (nw Venezuela) and ne Ecuador | ||
| C. s. ignotus Todd, 1942 | coastal mts. to Lara (nw Venezuela) | ||
| Green-tailed Emerald | Chlorostilbon alice (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | SA : n Venezuela | |
| Short-tailed Emerald | Chlorostilbon poortmani (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia, nw Venezuela | |
| C. p. poortmani (Bourcier, 1843) | e Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. p. euchloris (Reichenbach, 1854) | c Colombia | ||
| Gould's Emerald | Chlorostilbon elegans † (Gould, 1860) | NA : Jamaica? | EXTINCT : Weller, A, 1999. BLI. |
| Fiery-throated Hummingbird | Panterpe insignis Cabanis & Heine, 1860 | MA : Costa Rica, w Panama | |
| P. i. eisenmanni Stiles, 1985 | nw Costa Rica | ||
| P. i. insignis Cabanis & Heine, 1860 | nc Costa Rica to w Panama | ||
| White-tailed Emerald | Elvira chionura (Gould, 1851) | MA : Costa Rica, Panama | |
| Coppery-headed Emerald | Elvira cupreiceps (Lawrence, 1866) | MA : Costa Rica | |
| Oaxaca Hummingbird | Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley, JS & Orr, 1964 | MA : sc Mexico | |
| White-tailed Hummingbird | Eupherusa poliocerca Elliot, 1871 | MA : s Mexico | |
| Stripe-tailed Hummingbird | Eupherusa eximia (Delattre, 1843) | MA : s Mexico to w Panama | |
| E. e. nelsoni Ridgway, 1910 | Veracruz and Oaxaca (se Mexico) | ||
| E. e. eximia (Delattre, 1843) | c Chiapas (e Mexico) to c Nicaragua | ||
| E. e. egregia Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868 | Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| Black-bellied Hummingbird | Eupherusa nigriventris Lawrence, 1868 | MA : Costa Rica, w Panama | |
| Pirre Hummingbird | Goethalsia bella Nelson, 1912 | LA : e Panama, nw Colombia | |
| Violet-capped Hummingbird | Goldmania violiceps Nelson, 1911 | LA : e Panama, nw Colombia | |
| Dusky Hummingbird | Cynanthus sordidus (Gould, 1859) | MA : s Mexico | |
| Broad-billed Hummingbird | Cynanthus latirostris Swainson, 1827 | NA, MA : sw USA to c Mexico | |
| C. l. magicus (Mulsant & Verreaux, J, 1872) | sw USA, Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit (nw Mexico) | ||
| C. l. propinquus Moore, RT, 1939 | Guanajuato (c Mexico) | ||
| C. l. latirostris Swainson, 1827 | Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi to Veracruz (e Mexico) | ||
| C. l. toroi (Berlioz, 1937) | Colima and Michoacán (sc Mexico) | ||
| C. l. lawrencei (Berlepsch, 1887) | Tres Marías Is. (off w Mexico) | ||
| Doubleday's Hummingbird | Cynanthus doubledayi (Bourcier, 1847) | MA : s Mexico | |
| Blue-headed Hummingbird | Cyanophaia bicolor (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | NA : Lesser Antilles | |
| Mexican Woodnymph | Thalurania ridgwayi Nelson, 1900 | MA : w Mexico | |
| Crowned Woodnymph | Thalurania colombica (Bourcier, 1843) | LA : Guatemala to Ecuador, nw Peru | Emerald-bellied Woodnymph Thalurania hypochlora and Green-crowned Woodnymph T. fannyi are considered conspecific with Violet-crowned Woodnymph T. colombica, which becomes Crowned Woodnymph (SACC 137, 558) |
| T. c. townsendi Ridgway, 1888 | Guatemala, Belize and Honduras | ||
| T. c. venusta (Gould, 1851) | Nicaragua to Panama | ||
| T. c. colombica (Bourcier, 1843) | n Colombia and nw Venezuela | ||
| T. c. rostrifera Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1956 | nw Venezuela | ||
| T. f. fannyi (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | e Panama to w Colombia | ||
| T. f. subtropicalis Griscom, 1932 | Cauca Valley and nearby Andes (wc Colombia) | ||
| T. f. verticeps (Gould, 1851) | sw Colombia and nw Ecuador | ||
| T. f. hypochlora Gould, 1871 | w Ecuador and nw Peru | ||
| Fork-tailed Woodnymph | Thalurania furcata (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : widespread | |
| T. f. refulgens Gould, 1853 | Paria Pen. and Sierra de Cumaná (ne Venezuela) | ||
| T. f. furcata (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | ec Venezuela through the Guianas to ne Brazil | ||
| T. f. fissilis Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 | se Venezuela, wc Guyana and Roraima (nc Brazil) | ||
| T. f. orenocensis Hellmayr, 1921 | upper Orinoco (s Venezuela) | ||
| T. f. nigrofasciata (Gould, 1846) | se Colombia, s Venezuela and nw Brazil | ||
| T. f. viridipectus Gould, 1848 | e Colombia, e Ecuador and ne Peru | ||
| T. f. jelskii Taczanowski, 1874 | e Peru and w Brazil | ||
| T. f. simoni Hellmayr, 1906 | se Peru and sw Brazil | ||
| T. f. balzani Simon, 1896 | nc Brazil s of the Amazon | ||
| T. f. furcatoides Gould, 1861 | e Brazil s of the Amazon | ||
| T. f. boliviana Boucard, 1894 | se Peru, ne Bolivia | ||
| T. f. baeri Hellmayr, 1907 | ne and c Brazil to se Bolivia and nw and nc Argentina | ||
| T. f. eriphile (Lesson, 1832) | se Brazil, Paraguay and ne Argentina | ||
| Long-tailed Woodnymph | Thalurania watertonii (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : e Brazil | |
| Violet-capped Woodnymph | Thalurania glaucopis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : se | |
| Violet-bellied Hummingbird | Damophila julie (Bourcier, 1843) | LA : Panama to nw Peru | |
| D. j. panamensis Berlepsch, 1884 | c Panama | ||
| D. j. julie (Bourcier, 1843) | n and c Colombia | ||
| D. j. feliciana (Lesson, 1844) | sw Colombia, w Ecuador and nw Peru | ||
| Sapphire-throated Hummingbird | Lepidopyga coeruleogularis (Gould, 1851) | LA : Panama, Colombia | |
| L. c. coelina (Bourcier, 1856) | w Panama | ||
| L. c. coeruleogularis (Gould, 1851) | e Panama and nw Colombia | ||
| L. c. confinis Griscom, 1932 | n Colombia | ||
| Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird | Lepidopyga lilliae Stone, 1917 | SA : nc Colombia | |
| Shining-green Hummingbird | Lepidopyga goudoti (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia, nw Venezuela | |
| L. g. luminosa (Lawrence, 1862) | n Colombia | ||
| L. g. goudoti (Bourcier, 1843) | Magdalena Valley (nc Colombia) | ||
| L. g. zuliae Cory, 1918 | n and w of Lake Maracaibo area (ne Colombia and nw Venezuela) | ||
| L. g. phaeochroa Todd, 1942 | s and e of Lake Maracaibo area (nw Venezuela) | ||
| Blue-throated Sapphire | Hylocharis eliciae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | LA : s Mexico to nw Colombia | |
| H. e. eliciae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | se Mexico to s Costa Rica | ||
| H. e. earina Wetmore, 1967 | w Panama to nw Colombia | ||
| Rufous-throated Sapphire | Hylocharis sapphirina (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : Amazonia, se | |
| White-chinned Sapphire | Hylocharis cyanus (Vieillot, 1818) | SA : Amazonia, se | |
| H. c. viridiventris Berlepsch, 1880 | Colombia, s Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil | ||
| H. c. rostrata Boucard, 1895 | e Peru, ne Bolivia and w Brazil | ||
| H. c. conversa Zimmer, 1950 | e Bolivia, n Paraguay, sw Brazil | ||
| H. c. cyanus (Vieillot, 1818) | e Brazil | ||
| H. c. griseiventris Grantsau, 1988 | se Brazil to ne Argentina | ||
| Gilded Sapphire | Hylocharis chrysura (Shaw, 1812) | SA : se, sc | |
| Blue-headed Sapphire | Hylocharis grayi (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : w Colombia, n Ecuador | |
| Humboldt's Sapphire | Hylocharis humboldtii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) | LA : se Panama to nw Ecuador | |
| Golden-tailed Sapphire | Chrysuronia oenone (Lesson, 1832) | SA : n SA, w Amazonia | |
| C. o. oenone (Lesson, 1832) | e Colombia and n and e Venezuela to e Ecuador, ne Peru and w Brazil | ||
| C. o. josephinae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | e Peru | ||
| C. o. alleni (Elliot, 1888) | n Bolivia | ||
| White-throated Hummingbird | Leucochloris albicollis (Vieillot, 1818) | SA : se | |
| White-tailed Goldenthroat | Polytmus guainumbi (Pallas, 1764) | SA : n, ne, se | |
| P. g. andinus Simon, 1921 | e Colombia | ||
| P. g. guainumbi (Pallas, 1764) | Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil, Trinidad | ||
| P. g. thaumantias (Linnaeus, 1766) | e Bolivia to e Paraguay, e and c Brazil and ne Argentina | ||
| Tepui Goldenthroat | Polytmus milleri (Chapman, 1929) | SA : Tepuis | |
| Green-tailed Goldenthroat | Polytmus theresiae (Da Silva Maia, 1843) | SA : ne, w Amazonia | |
| P. t. theresiae (Da Silva Maia, 1843) | the Guianas, nc Brazil | ||
| P. t. leucorrhous Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1867 | e Colombia and s Venezuela to ne Peru and nw Brazil | ||
| Buffy Hummingbird | Leucippus fallax (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : n | |
| Tumbes Hummingbird | Leucippus baeri Simon, 1901 | SA : sw Ecuador, nw Peru | |
| Spot-throated Hummingbird | Leucippus taczanowskii (Sclater, PL, 1879) | SA : n, c Peru | |
| Olive-spotted Hummingbird | Leucippus chlorocercus Gould, 1866 | SA : w Amazonia | |
| Many-spotted Hummingbird | Taphrospilus hypostictus (Gould, 1862) | SA : Ecuador to nw Argentina, sw Brazil | |
| White-bellied Hummingbird | Amazilia chionogaster (Tschudi, 1846) | SA : n Peru to nw Argentina | TAX : Retained in Amazilia rather than Leucippus per SACC, contra Schuchmann 1999. |
| A. c. chionogaster (Tschudi, 1846) | n and c Peru | ||
| A. c. hypoleuca (Gould, 1846) | se Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, sw Brazil and nw Argentina | ||
| Green-and-white Hummingbird | Amazilia viridicauda (Berlepsch, 1883) | SA : c Peru | TAX : Retained in Amazilia rather than Leucippus per SACC, contra Schuchmann 1999. |
| Cinnamon Hummingbird | Amazilia rutila (Delattre, 1843) | MA : nw Mexico to Costa Rica | |
| A. r. diluta van Rossem, 1938 | nw Mexico | ||
| A. r. graysoni Lawrence, 1867 | Tres Marías Is. (off w Mexico) | ||
| A. r. rutila (Delattre, 1843) | w and sw Mexico | ||
| A. r. corallirostris (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | se Mexico to w Costa Rica | ||
| Buff-bellied Hummingbird | Amazilia yucatanensis (Cabot, 1845) | MA : e Mexico through Yucatan Peninsula, also s USA | |
| A. y. chalconota Oberholser, 1898 | s Texas (USA) to ne Mexico | ||
| A. y. cerviniventris (Gould, 1856) | e and s Mexico | ||
| A. y. yucatanensis (Cabot, 1845) | Yucatan Pen. (se Mexico), nw Guatemala and Belize | ||
| Rufous-tailed Hummingbird | Amazilia tzacatl (de la Llave, 1833) | LA : c Mexico to Venezuela and w Ecuador | TAX : Amazilia tzacatl includes A.handleyi (AOU 1998) |
| A. t. tzacatl (de la Llave, 1833) | ec Mexico to c Panama | ||
| A. t. handleyi Wetmore, 1963 | Isle Escudo de Veraguas (off nw Panama) | ||
| A. t. fuscicaudata (Fraser, 1840) | n Colombia and w Venezuela | ||
| A. t. brehmi Weller & Schuchmann, 1999 | Nariño (sw Colombia) | ||
| A. t. jucunda (Heine, 1863) | w Colombia and w Ecuador | ||
| Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird | Amazilia castaneiventris (Gould, 1856) | SA : nc Colombia | |
| Amazilia Hummingbird | Amazilia amazilia (Lesson, 1827) | SA : Ecuador and Peru | TAX : Loja Hummingbird Amazilia alticola is considered conspecific with Amazilia Hummingbird A. amazilia (SACC 138) |
| A. a. alticola Gould, 1860 | s Ecuador | ||
| A. a. azuay Krabbe & Ridgely, 2010 | sw Ecuador | ||
| A. a. dumerilii (Lesson, 1832) | w Ecuador, nw Peru | ||
| A. a. leucophoea Reichenbach, 1854 | nw Peru (s of dumerilii) | ||
| A. a. amazilia (Lesson, 1827) | w Peru | ||
| A. a. caeruleigularis Carriker, 1933 | sw Peru | ||
| Plain-bellied Emerald | Amazilia leucogaster (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : ne, e | |
| A. l. leucogaster (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | e Venezuela, the Guianas and ne Brazil | ||
| A. l. bahiae (Hartert, 1899) | e Brazil | ||
| Versicolored Emerald | Amazilia versicolor (Vieillot, 1818) | SA : Amazonia, sc, se | TAX : Rondonia Emerald Amazilia rondoniae is considered conspecific with Versicolored Emerald A. versicolor (SACC 188) |
| A. v. millerii (Bourcier, 1847) | e Colombia and w Venezuela, e Peru and nw Brazil | ||
| A. v. hollandi (Todd, 1913) | se Venezuela | ||
| A. v. nitidifrons (Gould, 1860) | ne Brazil | ||
| A. v. versicolor (Vieillot, 1818) | se Brazil | ||
| A. v. kubtchecki Ruschi, 1959 | ne Bolivia, e Paraguay, sw Brazil and ne Argentina | ||
| A. v. rondoniae Ruschi, 1982 | n Bolivia and wc Brazil | ||
| White-chested Emerald | Amazilia brevirostris (Lesson, 1829) | SA : n | TAX : See NACC 2010-B-4 re brevirostris vs chionopectus |
| A. b. chionopectus (Gould, 1859) | Trinidad | ||
| A. b. brevirostris (Lesson, 1829) | e Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and nc Brazil | ||
| A. b. orienticola Todd, 1942 | coastal French Guiana | ||
| Andean Emerald | Amazilia franciae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | SA : Colombia to n Peru | |
| A. f. franciae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | nw and c Colombia | ||
| A. f. viridiceps (Gould, 1860) | sw Colombia and w Ecuador | ||
| A. f. cyanocollis (Gould, 1853) | n Peru | ||
| White-bellied Emerald | Amazilia candida (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | MA : e Mexico to Nicaragua | |
| A. c. genini (Meise, 1938) | Caribbean slope of se Mexico | ||
| A. c. candida (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | Pacific slope of se Mexico to Nicaragua | ||
| A. c. pacifica (Griscom, 1929) | Yucatan Pen. (se Mexico) and s Guatemala | ||
| Azure-crowned Hummingbird | Amazilia cyanocephala (Lesson, 1830) | MA : e Mexico to Nicaragua | |
| A. c. cyanocephala (Lesson, 1830) | se Mexico to e Honduras and nc Nicaragua | ||
| A. c. chlorostephana Howell, TR, 1965 | ne Honduras and ne Nicaragua | ||
| Violet-crowned Hummingbird | Amazilia violiceps (Gould, 1859) | NA, MA : sw USA to sw Mexico | |
| A. v. ellioti (Berlepsch, 1889) | sw USA to nw and c Mexico | ||
| A. v. violiceps (Gould, 1859) | sw Mexico | ||
| Green-fronted Hummingbird | Amazilia viridifrons (Elliot, 1871) | MA : s Mexico | |
| Cinnamon-sided Hummingbird | Amazilia wagneri Phillips, AR, 1966 | MA : s Mexico | AS : Amazilia wagneri is split from A. viridifrons (Howell and Webb 1995); AOU acknowledges potential split |
| Glittering-throated Emerald | Amazilia fimbriata (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : widespread | |
| A. f. elegantissima Todd, 1942 | ne Colombia and n Venezuela | ||
| A. f. fimbriata (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | ne Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil | ||
| A. f. apicalis (Gould, 1861) | e Colombia | ||
| A. f. fluviatilis (Gould, 1861) | se Colombia, e Ecuador | ||
| A. f. laeta (Hartert, 1900) | ne Peru | ||
| A. f. nigricauda (Elliot, 1878) | e Bolivia to c Brazil | ||
| A. f. tephrocephala (Vieillot, 1818) | se Brazil | ||
| Sapphire-spangled Emerald | Amazilia lactea (Lesson, 1832) | SA : n, w Amazonia, se | |
| A. l. zimmeri (Gilliard, 1941) | se Venezuela | ||
| A. l. lactea (Lesson, 1832) | c and s Brazil | ||
| A. l. bartletti (Gould, 1866) | e Peru to n Bolivia | ||
| Blue-chested Hummingbird | Amazilia amabilis (Gould, 1853) | LA : Nicaragua to s Ecuador | |
| Charming Hummingbird | Amazilia decora (Salvin, 1891) | MA : sw Costa Rica, w Panama | |
| Purple-chested Hummingbird | Amazilia rosenbergi (Boucard, 1895) | SA : w Colombia, nw Ecuador | |
| Mangrove Hummingbird | Amazilia boucardi (Mulsant, 1877) | MA : Costa Rica | |
| Honduran Emerald | Amazilia luciae (Lawrence, 1868) | MA : Honduras | |
| Steely-vented Hummingbird | Amazilia saucerrottei (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | LA : Nicaragua, Costa Rica, nw SA | |
| A. s. hoffmanni (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) | w Nicaragua to c Costa Rica | ||
| A. s. warscewiczi (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) | n Colombia and nw Venezuela | ||
| A. s. saucerrottei (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | nw Colombia | ||
| A. s. braccata (Heine, 1863) | M�rida and Trujillo (w Venezuela) | ||
| Indigo-capped Hummingbird | Amazilia cyanifrons (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia | |
| Snowy-bellied Hummingbird | Amazilia edward (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | MA : Costa Rica, Panama | |
| A. e. niveoventer (Gould, 1851) | sw Costa Rica and sw Panama, Coiba I. | ||
| A. e. edward (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | ec Panama | ||
| A. e. collata Wetmore, 1952 | c Panama | ||
| A. e. margaritarum (Griscom, 1927) | e Panama and n Gulf of of Panama islands | ||
| Blue-tailed Hummingbird | Amazilia cyanura Gould, 1859 | MA : s Mexico to Costa Rica | |
| A. c. guatemalae (Dearborn, 1907) | s Mexico to s Guatemala | ||
| A. c. cyanura Gould, 1859 | s Honduras, e El Salvador and nw Nicaragua | ||
| A. c. impatiens (Bangs, 1906) | nw and c Costa Rica | ||
| Berylline Hummingbird | Amazilia beryllina (Deppe, 1830) | MA : nw Mexico to Honduras | |
| A. b. viola (Miller, W, 1905) | se Arizona (USA), w and nw Mexico | ||
| A. b. beryllina (Deppe, 1830) | c Oaxaca (s Mexico) | ||
| A. b. lichtensteini Moore, RT, 1950 | e Oaxaca, w Chiapas (s Mexico) | ||
| A. b. sumichrasti Salvin, 1891 | c and s Chiapas (s Mexico) | ||
| A. b. devillei (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras | ||
| Green-bellied Hummingbird | Amazilia viridigaster (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia, w Venezuela | TAX : Tepui Hummingbird Amazilia cupreicauda is considered to be conspecific with Green-bellied Hummingbird A. viridigaster (SACC 168) |
| A. v. viridigaster (Bourcier, 1843) | nc Colombia | ||
| A. v. iodura (Reichenbach, 1854) | w Venezuela | ||
| A. v. duidae (Chapman, 1929) | Mt. Duida (s Venezuela) | ||
| A. v. cupreicauda Salvin & Godman, 1884 | tepuis of s Venezuela, w Guyana and Roraima (nc Brazil) | ||
| A. v. laireti (Phelps Jr & Aveledo, 1988) | Sierra de Unturán and Cerro de la Neblina (tepuis of s Venezuela) | ||
| A. v. pacaraimae (Weller, 2000) | Sierra de Pacaraima (mts. of s Venezuela) | ||
| Copper-rumped Hummingbird | Amazilia tobaci (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : Venezuela | |
| A. t. monticola (Todd, 1913) | nw Venezuela | ||
| A. t. feliciae (Lesson, 1840) | nc Venezuela | ||
| A. t. caudata Zimmer & Phelps, 1949 | ne Venezuela | ||
| A. t. aliciae Richmond, 1895 | Isle Margarita (off n Venezuela) | ||
| A. t. erythronotos (Lesson, 1829) | Trinidad | ||
| A. t. tobaci (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | Tobago | ||
| A. t. caurensis (Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902) | e and se Veenezuela | ||
| Snowcap | Microchera albocoronata (Lawrence, 1855) | MA : Honduras to Panama | |
| M. a. parvirostris (Lawrence, 1865) | s Honduras to Costa Rica | ||
| M. a. albocoronata (Lawrence, 1855) | wc Panama | ||
| Blossomcrown | Anthocephala floriceps (Gould, 1853) | SA : Colombia | |
| A. f. floriceps (Gould, 1853) | Santa Marta Mts. (ne Colombia) | ||
| A. f. berlepschi Salvin, 1893 | Magdalena Valley (c Colombia) | ||
| White-vented Plumeleteer | Chalybura buffonii (Lesson, 1832) | LA : Panama to Venezuela | |
| C. b. micans Bangs & Barbour, 1922 | c Panama to nw Colombia | ||
| C. b. buffonii (Lesson, 1832) | c and ne Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. b. aeneicauda Lawrence, 1865 | n Colombia, nc and w Venezuela | ||
| C. b. caeruleogaster (Gould, 1847) | n and c Colombia | ||
| Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer | Chalybura urochrysia (Gould, 1861) | LA : Nicaragua to sw Ecuador | |
| C. u. melanorrhoa Salvin, 1865 | Nicaragua, Costa Rica | ||
| C. u. isaurae (Gould, 1861) | e and w Panama, nw Colombia | ||
| C. u. urochrysia (Gould, 1861) | se Panama, nc and w Colombia to nw Ecuador | ||
| C. u. intermedia Hartert & Hartert, C, 1894 | sw Ecuador | ||
| Blue-throated Mountaingem | Lampornis clemenciae (Lesson, 1830) | NA, MA : sw USA to c Mexico | |
| L. c. phasmorus Oberholser, 1974 | Chisos Mts. (Texas, USA) | ||
| L. c. bessophilus (Oberholser, 1918) | sw USA, nw Mexico | ||
| L. c. clemenciae (Lesson, 1830) | s USA through ne, c and s Mexico | ||
| Amethyst-throated Mountaingem | Lampornis amethystinus Swainson, 1827 | MA : c Mexico to Honduras | |
| L. a. amethystinus Swainson, 1827 | w,c and e Mexico | ||
| L. a. circumventus (Phillips, AR, 1966) | sw Oaxaca (s Mexico) | ||
| L. a. margaritae (Salvin & Godman, 1889) | sw Mexico | ||
| L. a. salvini (Ridgway, 1908) | Chiapas (s Mexico), Guatemala and El Salvador | ||
| L. a. nobilis Griscom, 1932 | Honduras | ||
| Green-throated Mountaingem | Lampornis viridipallens (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | MA : s Mexico to El Salvador | |
| L. v. amadoni Rowley, JS, 1968 | Oaxaca (s Mexico) | ||
| L. v. ovandensis (Brodkorb, 1939) | Chiapas (s Mexico), nw Guatemala | ||
| L. v. viridipallens (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | Guatemala, n El Salvador and w Honduras | ||
| L. v. nubivagus Dickey & van Rossem, 1929 | El Salvador | ||
| Green-breasted Mountaingem | Lampornis sybillae (Salvin & Godman, 1892) | MA : Honduras, Nicaragua | |
| White-bellied Mountaingem | Lampornis hemileucus (Salvin, 1865) | MA : Costa Rica, Panama | |
| Purple-throated Mountaingem | Lampornis calolaemus (Salvin, 1865) | MA : s Nicaragua to w Panama | |
| L. c. pectoralis (Salvin, 1891) | s Nicaragua, nc Costa Rica | ||
| L. c. calolaemus (Salvin, 1865) | c Costa Rica | ||
| L. c. homogenes Wetmore, 1967 | s Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| White-throated Mountaingem | Lampornis castaneoventris (Gould, 1851) | MA : w Panama | |
| Grey-tailed Mountaingem | Lampornis cinereicauda (Lawrence, 1867) | MA : s Costa Rica | AS : Lampornis cinereicauda is split from L. castaneoventris (Stiles and Skutch 1989) |
| Xantus's Hummingbird | Basilinna xantusii (Lawrence, 1861) | MA : s Baja California | |
| White-eared Hummingbird | Basilinna leucotis (Vieillot, 1818) | MA : Mexico to Nicaragua | |
| B. l. borealis (Griscom, 1929) | se Arizona (USA), n Mexico | ||
| B. l. leucotis (Vieillot, 1818) | c and s Mexico, Guatemala | ||
| B. l. pygmaea Simon & Hellmayr, 1908 | El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua | ||
| Garnet-throated Hummingbird | Lamprolaima rhami (Lesson, 1839) | MA : c Mexico to Honduras | |
| Speckled Hummingbird | Adelomyia melanogenys (Fraser, 1840) | SA : Venezuela to nw Argentina | |
| A. m. cervina Gould, 1872 | w and c Colombia | ||
| A. m. connectens Meyer de Schauensee, 1945 | s Colombia | ||
| A. m. melanogenys (Fraser, 1840) | e Colombia and w Venezuela to sc Peru | ||
| A. m. debellardiana Aveledo & Perez, 1994 | Sierra de Perija (mts. of w Venezuela) | ||
| A. m. aeneosticta Simon, 1889 | c and n Venezuela | ||
| A. m. maculata Gould, 1861 | Ecuador, n Peru | ||
| A. m. chlorospila Gould, 1872 | se Peru | ||
| A. m. inornata (Gould, 1846) | Bolivia, nw Argentina | ||
| Ecuadorian Piedtail | Phlogophilus hemileucurus Gould, 1860 | SA : s Colombia to ne Peru | |
| Peruvian Piedtail | Phlogophilus harterti Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1901 | SA : c, se Peru | |
| Brazilian Ruby | Clytolaema rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) | SA : se Brazil | |
| Velvet-browed Brilliant | Heliodoxa xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882 | SA : Tepuis | |
| H. x. willardi Weller & Renner, 2001 | s Venezuela | ||
| H. x. xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882 | e Venezuela, Guyana and nc Brazil | ||
| Pink-throated Brilliant | Heliodoxa gularis (Gould, 1860) | SA : nw Amazonia | |
| Rufous-webbed Brilliant | Heliodoxa branickii (Taczanowski, 1874) | SA : se Peru | |
| Black-throated Brilliant | Heliodoxa schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : w Amazonia | |
| H. s. schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) | se Colombia to e Ecuador, ne Peru and nw Brazil | ||
| H. s. whitelyana (Gould, 1872) | e Peru | ||
| Gould's Jewelfront | Heliodoxa aurescens (Gould, 1846) | SA : w, c Amazonia | |
| Fawn-breasted Brilliant | Heliodoxa rubinoides (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | SA : Colombia to Peru | |
| H. r. rubinoides (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | c and e Colombia | ||
| H. r. aequatorialis (Gould, 1860) | w Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| H. r. cervinigularis (Salvin, 1892) | e Ecuador, e Peru | ||
| Green-crowned Brilliant | Heliodoxa jacula Gould, 1850 | LA : Costa Rica to Ecuador | |
| H. j. henryi Lawrence, 1867 | Costa Rica to w Panama | ||
| H. j. jacula Gould, 1850 | e Panama, n and c Colombia | ||
| H. j. jamersoni (Bourcier, 1851) | sw Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| Empress Brilliant | Heliodoxa imperatrix (Gould, 1856) | SA : wc Colombia to nw Ecuador | |
| Violet-fronted Brilliant | Heliodoxa leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Venezuela to nw Bolivia | |
| H. l. leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) | n Venezuela | ||
| H. l. parvula Berlepsch, 1888 | n, c and s Colombia, w Venezuela | ||
| H. l. sagitta (Reichenbach, 1854) | e Ecuador, n Peru | ||
| H. l. otero (Tschudi, 1844) | c Peru to nw Bolivia | ||
| Magnificent Hummingbird | Eugenes fulgens (Swainson, 1827) | NA, MA : sw USA to Panama | |
| E. f. fulgens (Swainson, 1827) | sw USA to Honduras and Nicaragua | ||
| E. f. spectabilis (Lawrence, 1867) | Costa Rica to w Panama | ||
| Scissor-tailed Hummingbird | Hylonympha macrocerca Gould, 1873 | SA : ne Venezuela | |
| Violet-chested Hummingbird | Sternoclyta cyanopectus (Gould, 1846) | SA : n Venezuela | |
| White-tailed Hillstar | Urochroa bougueri (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : Colombia to ne Peru | |
| U. b. bougueri (Bourcier, 1851) | sw Colombia, nw Ecuador | ||
| U. b. leucura Lawrence, 1864 | s Colombia, e Ecuador and ne Peru | ||
| Buff-tailed Coronet | Boissonneaua flavescens (Loddiges, 1832) | SA : Venezuela to Ecuador | |
| B. f. flavescens (Loddiges, 1832) | Colombia, w Venezuela | ||
| B. f. tinochlora Oberholser, 1902 | sw Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| Chestnut-breasted Coronet | Boissonneaua matthewsii (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : Colombia to Peru | |
| Velvet-purple Coronet | Boissonneaua jardini (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : sw Colombia to nw Ecuador | |
| Shining Sunbeam | Aglaeactis cupripennis (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia to Peru | |
| A. c. cupripennis (Bourcier, 1843) | Colombia, Ecuador to n Peru | ||
| A. c. caumatonota Gould, 1848 | sc Peru | ||
| Purple-backed Sunbeam | Aglaeactis aliciae Salvin, 1896 | SA : n Peru | |
| White-tufted Sunbeam | Aglaeactis castelnaudii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | SA : Peru | |
| A. c. regalis Zimmer, 1951 | c Peru | ||
| A. c. castelnaudii (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | s Peru | ||
| Black-hooded Sunbeam | Aglaeactis pamela (d'Orbigny, 1838) | SA : Bolivia | |
| Ecuadorian Hillstar | Oreotrochilus chimborazo (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : s Colombia to c Ecuador | |
| O. c. jamesonii Jardine, 1849 | s Colombia, n Ecuador | ||
| O. c. soderstromi Lönnberg & Rendahl, 1922 | Mt. Quillotoa (c Ecuador) | ||
| O. c. chimborazo (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | Mt. Chimborazo (c Ecuador) | ||
| Andean Hillstar | Oreotrochilus estella (d'Orbigny, 1838) | SA : sw Peru to nw Argentina | |
| O. e. stolzmanni Salvin, 1895 | s Ecuador, n and c Peru | ||
| O. e. estella (d'Orbigny, 1838) | sw Peru and nw Bolivia to n Chile and nw Argentina | ||
| O. e. bolivianus Boucard, 1893 | Cochabamba (c Bolivia | ||
| White-sided Hillstar | Oreotrochilus leucopleurus Gould, 1847 | SA : s Bolivia to s Argentina and Chile | |
| Black-breasted Hillstar | Oreotrochilus melanogaster Gould, 1847 | SA : c Peru | |
| Wedge-tailed Hillstar | Oreotrochilus adela (d'Orbigny, 1838) | SA : s Bolivia | |
| Mountain Velvetbreast | Lafresnaya lafresnayi (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : w Venezuela to c Peru | |
| L. l. liriope Bangs, 1910 | Santa Marta Mts. (ne Colombia) | ||
| L. l. longirostris Schuchmann, Weller & Wulfmeyer, 2003 | wc Colombia | ||
| L. l. greenewalti Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1961 | se and e of Lake Maracaibo (nw Venezuela) | ||
| L. l. lafresnayi (Boissonneau, 1840) | c and e Colombia, w and sw of Lake Maracaibo (nw Venezuela) | ||
| L. l. saul (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | sw Colombia, Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| L. l. rectirostris Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902 | c Peru | ||
| Bronzy Inca | Coeligena coeligena (Lesson, 1833) | SA : n Venezuela to se Bolivia | |
| C. c. ferruginea (Chapman, 1917) | w and c Colombia | ||
| C. c. columbiana (Elliot, 1876) | e and c Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. c. coeligena (Lesson, 1833) | n Venezuela | ||
| C. c. zuliana Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1953 | Sierra de Perija (mts. of ne Colombia and w Venezuela) | ||
| C. c. obscura (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902) | s Colombia, Ecuador and Peru | ||
| C. c. boliviana (Gould, 1861) | c and se Bolivia | ||
| Brown Inca | Coeligena wilsoni (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : w Colombia to w Ecuador | |
| Black Inca | Coeligena prunellei (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : nc Colombia | |
| Collared Inca | Coeligena torquata (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : w Venezuela to n Peru | TAX : Gould‘s Inca Coeligena inca is considered conspecific with Collared Inca C. torquata (SACC 140) |
| C. t. conradii (Bourcier, 1847) | e Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. t. torquata (Boissonneau, 1840) | Colombia, nw Veneuela, e Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| C. t. fulgidigula (Gould, 1854) | e Ecuador | ||
| C. t. margaretae Zimmer, 1948 | Chachapoyas (n Peru) | ||
| C. t. eisenmanni Weske, 1985 | s Peru | ||
| C. t. insectivora (Tschudi, 1844) | c Peru | ||
| C. t. omissa Zimmer, 1948 | se Peru | ||
| C. t. inca (Gould, 1852) | Bolivia | ||
| White-tailed Starfrontlet | Coeligena phalerata (Bangs, 1898) | SA : ne Colombia | |
| Golden-bellied Starfrontlet | Coeligena bonapartei (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : e Colombia to w Venezuela | TAX : Golden-tailed Starfrontlet Coeligena eos is considered conspecific with Golden-bellied Starfrontlet C.bonapartei (SACC 139) |
| C. b. consita Wetmore & Phelps Jr, 1952 | Sierra de Perija (mts. of ne Colombia and w Venezuela) | ||
| C. b. bonapartei (Boissonneau, 1840) | e Colombia | ||
| C. b. eos (Gould, 1848) | w Venezuela | ||
| Dusky Starfrontlet | Coeligena orina Wetmore, 1953 | SA : nc Colombia | AS : Split Coeligena orina from C. bonapartei based on new specimens (Krabbe et al. 2005, SACC 185) |
| Blue-throated Starfrontlet | Coeligena helianthea (Lesson, 1839) | SA : ne Colombia, w Venezuela | |
| C. h. helianthea (Lesson, 1839) | n and e Colombia | ||
| C. h. tamai Berlioz & Phelps, 1953 | w Venezuela | ||
| Buff-winged Starfrontlet | Coeligena lutetiae (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : Colombia to Peru | |
| C. l. lutetiae (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | c Colombia to c Ecuador | ||
| C. l. albimaculata Sanchez Oses, 2006 | nw Ecuador | ||
| Violet-throated Starfrontlet | Coeligena violifer (Gould, 1846) | SA : s Ecuador to nw Bolivia | |
| C. v. dichroura (Taczanowski, 1874) | s Ecuador to n, c and w Peru | ||
| C. v. albicaudata Schuchmann & Zuchner, 1997 | s Peru | ||
| C. v. osculans (Gould, 1871) | se Peru | ||
| C. v. violifer (Gould, 1846) | nw Bolivia | ||
| Rainbow Starfrontlet | Coeligena iris Gould, 1853 | SA : Ecuador, Peru | |
| C. i. hesperus (Gould, 1865) | sc Ecuador | ||
| C. i. iris Gould, 1853 | Loja (s Ecuador), Piura (n Peru) | ||
| C. i. aurora Gould, 1853 | Cajamarca and Cutervo (nw Peru) | ||
| C. i. flagrans Zimmer, 1951 | nw Cajamarca (nw Peru) | ||
| C. i. eva (Salvin, 1897) | s Cajamarca and La Libertad (nw Peru) | ||
| C. i. fulgidiceps (Simon, 1921) | east of Marañon R. (n Peru) | ||
| Sword-billed Hummingbird | Ensifera ensifera (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : w Venezuela to ne Bolivia | |
| Great Sapphirewing | Pterophanes cyanopterus (Fraser, 1840) | SA : Colombia to n Bolivia | |
| P. c. cyanopterus (Fraser, 1840) | nc Colombia | ||
| P. c. caeruleus Zimmer, 1951 | c and s Colombia | ||
| P. c. peruvianus Boucard, 1895 | Ecuador, Peru and n Bolivia | ||
| Giant Hummingbird | Patagona gigas (Vieillot, 1824) | SA : s Colombia to c Chile | |
| P. g. peruviana Boucard, 1893 | sw Colombia to n Chile and nw Argentina | ||
| P. g. gigas (Vieillot, 1824) | c and s Chile, wc Argentina | ||
| Green-backed Firecrown | Sephanoides sephanoides (Lesson, 1827) | SA : Southern Cone | TAX : Spelling of species name sephanoides follows H&M Corrigenda 2.1 |
| Juan Fernandez Firecrown | Sephanoides fernandensis (King, 1831) | SA : Juan Fernandez Archipelago | |
| S. f. fernandensis (King, 1831) | Robinson Crusoe I. | ||
| S. f. leyboldi † (Gould, 1870) | Alejandro Selkirk I. | ||
| Orange-throated Sunangel | Heliangelus mavors Gould, 1848 | SA : Colombia, Venezuela | |
| Amethyst-throated Sunangel | Heliangelus amethysticollis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838) | SA : s Ecuador to nw Bolivia | TAX : Longuemare‘s Sunangel Heliangelus clarisse is considered conspecific with Amethyst-throated Sunangel H.amethysticollis (SACC 142) |
| H. a. violiceps Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1953 | Sierra de Perija (mts. of ne Colombia and w Venezuela) | ||
| H. a. clarisse (Longuemare, 1841) | e Colombia and w Venezuela | ||
| H. a. spencei (Bourcier, 1847) | Mérida (nw Venezuela) | ||
| H. a. laticlavius Salvin, 1891 | s Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| H. a. decolor Zimmer, 1951 | c Peru | ||
| H. a. apurimacensis Weller, 2009 | se Peru | ||
| H. a. amethysticollis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838) | s Peru and nw Bolivia | ||
| Gorgeted Sunangel | Heliangelus strophianus (Gould, 1846) | SA : sw Colombia, nw Ecuador | |
| Tourmaline Sunangel | Heliangelus exortis (Fraser, 1840) | SA : Colombia, nw Ecuador | |
| Flame-throated Sunangel | Heliangelus micraster Gould, 1872 | SA : Ecuador, Peru | |
| H. m. micraster Gould, 1872 | se Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| H. m. cutervensis (Simon, 1921) | nw Peru | ||
| Purple-throated Sunangel | Heliangelus viola Gould, 1853 | SA : Ecuador, Peru | |
| Bogota Sunangel | Heliangelus zusii † Graves, GR, 1993 | SA : Colombia | EXT, TAX : Bogota Sunangel, presumed extinct, is sister to Taphrolesbia/Aglaiocercus and best assigned to a new genus (Kirchman et al 2010) |
| Royal Sunangel | Heliangelus regalis Fitzpatrick, Willard & Terborgh, 1979 | SA : n Peru | |
| H. r. johnsoni Graves, GR, Lane, O'Neill & Valqui, 2011 | Cordillera Azul, Loreto (n Peru) | ||
| H. r. regalis Fitzpatrick, Willard & Terborgh, 1979 | Cajamarca and San Martin (n Peru) | ||
| Black-breasted Puffleg | Eriocnemis nigrivestis (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) | SA : nw Ecuador | |
| Gorgeted Puffleg | Eriocnemis isabellae Cortés-Diago, Ortega, Mazariegos-Hurtado & Weller, 2007 | SA : sw Colombia | NEW : Eriocnemis isabellae is a newly described species (Cort�s-Diago et al. 2007, SACC 302) |
| Glowing Puffleg | Eriocnemis vestita (Lesson, 1839) | SA : nw Venezuela to n Peru | |
| E. v. paramillo (Chapman, 1917) | nw Colombia | ||
| E. v. vestita (Lesson, 1839) | e Colombia and nw Venezuela | ||
| E. v. smaragdinipectus Gould, 1868 | sw Colombia and e Ecuador | ||
| E. v. arcosi Schuchmann, Weller & Heynen, 2001 | s Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| Black-thighed Puffleg | Eriocnemis derbyi (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : Colombia, nw Ecuador | |
| Turquoise-throated Puffleg | Eriocnemis godini (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : nw Ecuador | |
| Coppery-bellied Puffleg | Eriocnemis cupreoventris (Fraser, 1840) | SA : Colombia, Venezuela | |
| Sapphire-vented Puffleg | Eriocnemis luciani (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : sw Colombia to w Ecuador | TAX : Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani includes Coppery-naped Puffleg E. sapphiropygia (SACC 147) |
| E. l. meridae Schuchmann, Weller & Heynen, 2001 | Mérida (nw Venezuela) | ||
| E. l. luciani (Bourcier, 1847) | sw Colombia and n Ecuador | ||
| E. l. baptistae Schuchmann, Weller & Heynen, 2001 | c and s Ecuador | ||
| E. l. catharina Salvin, 1897 | n Peru | ||
| E. l. sapphiropygia Taczanowski, 1874 | c and s Peru | ||
| Golden-breasted Puffleg | Eriocnemis mosquera (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : w Colombia to nw Ecuador | |
| Blue-capped Puffleg | Eriocnemis glaucopoides (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838) | SA : c Bolivia to nw Argentina | |
| Colorful Puffleg | Eriocnemis mirabilis Meyer de Schauensee, 1967 | SA : w Colombia | |
| Emerald-bellied Puffleg | Eriocnemis aline (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia to c Peru | |
| E. a. aline (Bourcier, 1843) | e Colombia and e Ecuador | ||
| E. a. dybowskii Taczanowski, 1882 | n and c Peru | ||
| Greenish Puffleg | Haplophaedia aureliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | LA : e Panama,Colombia and Ecuador | |
| H. a. caucensis (Simon, 1911) | se Panama to w Colombia | ||
| H. a. aureliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | c and e Colombia | ||
| H. a. russata (Gould, 1871) | n and c Ecuador | ||
| H. a. cutucuensis Schuchmann, Weller & Heynen, 2000 | se Ecuador | ||
| Buff-thighed Puffleg | Haplophaedia assimilis (Elliot, 1876) | SA : Peru, Bolivia | |
| H. a. affinis (Taczanowski, 1884) | n and c Peru | ||
| H. a. assimilis (Elliot, 1876) | se Peru and w Bolivia | ||
| Hoary Puffleg | Haplophaedia lugens (Gould, 1852) | SA : sw Colombia to nw Ecuador | |
| Purple-bibbed Whitetip | Urosticte benjamini (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : Colombia to ne Peru | |
| Rufous-vented Whitetip | Urosticte ruficrissa Lawrence, 1864 | SA : Colombia, Ecuador | |
| Booted Racket-tail | Ocreatus underwoodii (Lesson, 1832) | SA : n Venezuela to Bolivia | |
| O. u. polystictus Todd, 1942 | n Venezuela | ||
| O. u. discifer (Heine, 1863) | ne Colombia and nw Venezuela | ||
| O. u. underwoodii (Lesson, 1832) | e Colombia | ||
| O. u. incommodus (Kleinschmidt, O, 1943) | w and c Colombia | ||
| O. u. melanantherus (Jardine, 1851) | c and w Ecuador | ||
| O. u. peruanus (Gould, 1849) | e Ecuador and ne Peru | ||
| O. u. annae (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1894) | c and s Peru | ||
| O. u. addae (Bourcier, 1846) | Bolivia | ||
| Black-tailed Trainbearer | Lesbia victoriae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | SA : ne Colombia to se Peru | |
| L. v. victoriae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | nc and s Colombia, Ecuador | ||
| L. v. juliae (Hartert, 1899) | s Ecuador, n and c Peru | ||
| L. v. berlepschi (Hellmayr, 1915) | se Peru | ||
| Green-tailed Trainbearer | Lesbia nuna (Lesson, 1832) | SA : ne Colombia to n Bolivia | |
| L. n. gouldii (Loddiges, 1832) | Colombia, w Venezuela (?) | ||
| L. n. gracilis (Gould, 1846) | Ecuador | ||
| L. n. pallidiventris (Simon, 1902) | n Peru | ||
| L. n. eucharis (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848) | c Peru | ||
| L. n. nuna (Lesson, 1832) | sw Peru and n Bolivia | ||
| Red-tailed Comet | Sappho sparganura (Shaw, 1812) | SA : n Bolivia to c Chile | |
| S. s. sparganura (Shaw, 1812) | n and c Bolivia | ||
| S. s. sapho (Lesson, 1828) | s Bolivia, n and w Argentina and ec Chile | ||
| Bronze-tailed Comet | Polyonymus caroli (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : c, s Peru | |
| Black-backed Thornbill | Ramphomicron dorsale Salvin & Godman, 1880 | SA : ne Colombia | |
| Purple-backed Thornbill | Ramphomicron microrhynchum (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : n Venezuela to Bolivia | |
| R. m. andicola Simon, 1921 | w Venezuela | ||
| R. m. microrhynchum (Boissonneau, 1840) | Colombia, Ecuador and nw Peru | ||
| R. m. albiventre Carriker, 1935 | c Peru | ||
| R. m. bolivianum Schuchmann, 1984 | c Bolivia | ||
| Bearded Mountaineer | Oreonympha nobilis Gould, 1869 | SA : c Peru | |
| O. n. albolimbata Berlioz, 1938 | wc Peru | ||
| O. n. nobilis Gould, 1869 | sc Peru | ||
| Bearded Helmetcrest | Oxypogon guerinii (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : Colombia, Venezuela | |
| O. g. cyanolaemus Salvin & Godman, 1880 | Santa Marta Mts. (ne Colombia} | ||
| O. g. lindenii (Parzudaki, 1845) | nw Venezuela | ||
| O. g. stuebelii Meyer, AB, 1884 | c Colombia | ||
| O. g. guerinii (Boissonneau, 1840) | e Colombia | ||
| Tyrian Metaltail | Metallura tyrianthina (Loddiges, 1832) | SA : n Venezuela to n Bolivia | |
| M. t. districta Bangs, 1899 | Santa Marta Mts. (ne Colombia} | ||
| M. t. chloropogon (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) | n Venezuela | ||
| M. t. oreopola Todd, 1913 | w Venezuela | ||
| M. t. tyrianthina (Loddiges, 1832) | c Colombia and Téchira (nw Venezuela) to e and s Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| M. t. quitensis Gould, 1861 | nw Ecuador | ||
| M. t. septentrionalis Hartert, 1899 | w of the Rio Marañon (n Peru) | ||
| M. t. smaragdinicollis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838) | c and s Peru, nw Bolivia | ||
| Perija Metaltail | Metallura iracunda Wetmore, 1946 | SA : n Colombia, Venezuela | |
| Viridian Metaltail | Metallura williami (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : c Colombia to s Ecuador | TAX : Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami includes atrigularis, a subspecies that may deserve species rank (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001);SACC needs proposal |
| M. w. recisa Wetmore, 1970 | nc Colombia | ||
| M. w. williami (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | c Colombia | ||
| M. w. primolina Bourcier, 1853 | n Ecuador and s Colombia | ||
| M. w. atrigularis Salvin, 1893 | s Ecuador | ||
| Violet-throated Metaltail | Metallura baroni Salvin, 1893 | SA : sc Ecuador | |
| Neblina Metaltail | Metallura odomae Graves, GR, 1980 | SA : s Ecuador, n Peru | |
| Coppery Metaltail | Metallura theresiae Simon, 1902 | SA : Peru | |
| M. t. parkeri Graves, GR, 1981 | n Peru | ||
| M. t. theresiae Simon, 1902 | ne Peru | ||
| Fiery-throated Metaltail | Metallura eupogon (Cabanis, 1874) | SA : Peru | |
| Scaled Metaltail | Metallura aeneocauda (Gould, 1846) | SA : Peru, Bolivia | |
| M. a. aeneocauda (Gould, 1846) | se Peru and nw Bolivia | ||
| M. a. malagae Berlepsch, 1897 | c Bolivia | ||
| Black Metaltail | Metallura phoebe (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | SA : Peru | |
| Rufous-capped Thornbill | Chalcostigma ruficeps (Gould, 1846) | SA : se Ecuador to wc Bolivia | |
| Olivaceous Thornbill | Chalcostigma olivaceum (Lawrence, 1864) | SA : wc Peru to wc Bolivia | |
| C. o. pallens Carriker, 1935 | c Peru | ||
| C. o. olivaceum (Lawrence, 1864) | se Peru to c Bolivia | ||
| Blue-mantled Thornbill | Chalcostigma stanleyi (Bourcier, 1851) | SA : Ecuador to wc Bolivia | |
| C. s. stanleyi (Bourcier, 1851) | Ecuador | ||
| C. s. versigulare Zimmer, 1924 | n Peru | ||
| C. s. vulcani (Gould, 1852) | s Peru to wc Bolivia | ||
| Bronze-tailed Thornbill | Chalcostigma heteropogon (Boissonneau, 1840) | SA : w Venezuela, e Colombia | |
| Rainbow-bearded Thornbill | Chalcostigma herrani (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | SA : Colombia to n Peru | |
| C. h. tolimae Kleinschmidt, O, 1927 | wc Colombia | ||
| C. h. herrani (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | s Colombia to n Peru | ||
| Mountain Avocetbill | Opisthoprora euryptera (Loddiges, 1832) | SA : Colombia to n Peru | |
| Grey-bellied Comet | Taphrolesbia griseiventris (Taczanowski, 1883) | SA : nw Peru | |
| Long-tailed Sylph | Aglaiocercus kingii (Lesson, 1832) | SA : Venezuela to wc Bolivia | TAX : CORRECT species name of Long-tailed Sylph is kingii, not kingi (H&M 3rd corregenda 8) |
| A. k. margarethae (Heine, 1863) | nc and n Venezuela | ||
| A. k. caudatus (Berlepsch, 1892) | n Colombia and w Venezuela | ||
| A. k. emmae (Berlepsch, 1892) | c and w Colombia, nw Ecuador | ||
| A. k. kingii (Lesson, 1832) | e Colombia | ||
| A. k. mocoa (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | s Colombia, Ecuador and n Peru | ||
| A. k. smaragdinus (Gould, 1846) | c Peru to c Bolivia | ||
| Venezuelan Sylph | Aglaiocercus berlepschi (Hartert, 1898) | SA : ne Venezuela | |
| Violet-tailed Sylph | Aglaiocercus coelestis (Gould, 1861) | SA : Colombia, Ecuador | |
| A. c. coelestis (Gould, 1861) | w Colombia to c Ecuador | ||
| A. c. aethereus (Chapman, 1925) | sw Ecuador | ||
| Hyacinth Visorbearer | Augastes scutatus (Temminck, 1824) | SA : se Brazil | |
| A. s. scutatus (Temminck, 1824) | high forests of c and e Minas Gerais (se Brazil) | ||
| A. s. ilseae Grantsau, 1967 | mid-level forests of c and e Minais Gerais (se Brazil) | ||
| A. s. soaresi Ruschi, 1963 | sc Minais Gerais (se Brazil) | ||
| Hooded Visorbearer | Augastes lumachella (Lesson, 1839) | SA : e Brazil | |
| Wedge-billed Hummingbird | Schistes geoffroyi (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : n Venezuela to c Bolivia | |
| S. g. albogularis Gould, 1852 | w Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| S. g. geoffroyi (Bourcier, 1843) | e Colombia and n Venezuela to e Peru | ||
| S. g. chapmani Berlioz, 1941 | c Bolivia | ||
| Purple-crowned Fairy | Heliothryx barroti (Bourcier, 1843) | LA : se Mexico to sw Ecuador | |
| Black-eared Fairy | Heliothryx auritus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | SA : Amazonia, e | |
| H. a. auritus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | se Colombia and e Ecuador through Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil | ||
| H. a. phainolaemus Gould, 1855 | nc Brazil (s of the Amazon) | ||
| H. a. auriculatus (Nordmann, 1835) | e Peru to c Bolivia and c and e Brazil | ||
| Horned Sungem | Heliactin bilophus (Temminck, 1820) | SA : c, e | |
| Marvelous Spatuletail | Loddigesia mirabilis (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : n Peru | |
| Plain-capped Starthroat | Heliomaster constantii (Delattre, 1843) | MA : w | |
| H. c. pinicola Gould, 1853 | nw Mexico | ||
| H. c. leocadiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) | w Mexico to w Guatemala | ||
| H. c. constantii (Delattre, 1843) | El Salvador and Nicaragua to Costa Rica | ||
| Long-billed Starthroat | Heliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | LA : s Mexico to e Bolivia and ne Brazil | |
| H. l. pallidiceps Gould, 1861 | s Mexico to Nicaragua | ||
| H. l. longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | Costa Rica to Bolivia and Brazil, Trinidad | ||
| H. l. albicrissa Gould, 1871 | w Ecuador, nw Peru | ||
| Stripe-breasted Starthroat | Heliomaster squamosus (Temminck, 1823) | SA : e, se Brazil | |
| Blue-tufted Starthroat | Heliomaster furcifer (Shaw, 1812) | SA : sc | |
| Oasis Hummingbird | Rhodopis vesper (Lesson, 1829) | SA : nw Peru to n Chile | |
| R. v. koepckeae Berlioz, 1975 | nw Peru | ||
| R. v. vesper (Lesson, 1829) | w Peru to n Chile | ||
| R. v. atacamensis (Leybold, 1869) | Atacama (n Chile) | ||
| Peruvian Sheartail | Thaumastura cora (Lesson & Garnot, 1827) | SA : nw Peru to n Chile | |
| Sparkling-tailed Woodstar | Tilmatura dupontii (Lesson, 1832) | MA : c Mexico to Nicaragua | |
| Slender Sheartail | Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818) | MA : s Mexico to El Salvador | |
| Mexican Sheartail | Doricha eliza (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | MA : se Mexico | |
| Amethyst Woodstar | Calliphlox amethystina (Boddaert, 1783) | SA : widespread | |
| Bahama Woodstar | Calliphlox evelynae (Bourcier, 1847) | NA : Bahamas | |
| C. e. evelynae (Bourcier, 1847) | Bahama and Caicos Is. | ||
| C. e. lyrura (Gould, 1869) | Great Inagua I. | ||
| Magenta-throated Woodstar | Calliphlox bryantae (Lawrence, 1867) | MA : Costa Rica, Panama | |
| Purple-throated Woodstar | Calliphlox mitchellii (Bourcier, 1847) | LA : e Panama to w Ecuador | |
| Slender-tailed Woodstar | Microstilbon burmeisteri (Sclater, PL, 1888) | SA : c Bolivia to nw Argentina | |
| Lucifer Sheartail | Calothorax lucifer (Swainson, 1827) | NA : sw USA to c Mexico | |
| Beautiful Sheartail | Calothorax pulcher Gould, 1859 | MA : sc Mexico | |
| Vervain Hummingbird | Mellisuga minima (Linnaeus, 1758) | NA : Hispaniola, Jamaica | |
| M. m. minima (Linnaeus, 1758) | Jamaica | ||
| M. m. vielloti (Shaw, 1812) | Hispaniola and nearby islands | ||
| Bee Hummingbird | Mellisuga helenae (Lembeye, 1850) | NA : Cuba | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758) | NA : e, c | |
| Black-chinned Hummingbird | Archilochus alexandri (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | NA : w, sw | |
| Anna's Hummingbird | Calypte anna (Lesson, 1829) | NA : w, sw | |
| Costa's Hummingbird | Calypte costae (Bourcier, 1839) | NA : sw | |
| Bumblebee Hummingbird | Atthis heloisa (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | MA : Mexico | |
| A. h. margarethae Moore, RT, 1937 | nw and w Mexico | ||
| A. h. heloisa (Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | ne, c and s Mexico | ||
| Wine-throated Hummingbird | Atthis ellioti Ridgway, 1878 | MA : s Mexico to Honduras | |
| A. e. ellioti Ridgway, 1878 | s Mexico and Guatemala | ||
| A. e. selasphoroides Griscom, 1932 | Honduras | ||
| Purple-collared Woodstar | Myrtis fanny (Lesson, 1838) | SA : Ecuador, Peru | |
| M. f. fanny (Lesson, 1838) | w and se Ecuador, w Peru | ||
| M. f. megalura Zimmer, 1953 | n Peru | ||
| Chilean Woodstar | Eulidia yarrellii (Bourcier, 1847) | SA : s Peru, n Chile | |
| Short-tailed Woodstar | Myrmia micrura (Gould, 1854) | SA : w Ecuador, nw Peru | |
| White-bellied Woodstar | Chaetocercus mulsant (Bourcier, 1843) | SA : Colombia to c Bolivia | |
| Little Woodstar | Chaetocercus bombus Gould, 1871 | SA : sw Colombia to nc Peru | |
| Gorgeted Woodstar | Chaetocercus heliodor (Bourcier, 1840) | SA : Venezuela to w Ecuador | |
| C. h. heliodor (Bourcier, 1840) | w Ecuador to nw Venezuela | ||
| C. h. cleavesi Moore, RT, 1934 | ne Ecuador | ||
| Santa Marta Woodstar | Chaetocercus astreans (Bangs, 1899) | SA : ne Colombia | |
| Esmeraldas Woodstar | Chaetocercus berlepschi Simon, 1889 | SA : w Ecuador | |
| Rufous-shafted Woodstar | Chaetocercus jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) | SA : n Venezuela, n Colombia | |
| C. j. andinus Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1949 | ne Colombia, w venezuela | ||
| C. j. rosae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | n Venezuela | ||
| C. j. jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) | ne Venezuela, Trinidad | ||
| Broad-tailed Hummingbird | Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827) | NA : wc | |
| Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | NA : w | |
| Allen's Hummingbird | Selasphorus sasin (Lesson, 1829) | NA : w | |
| S. s. sasin (Lesson, 1829) | s Oregon and California (USA) | ||
| S. s. sedentarius Grinnell, 1929 | islands off s California (USA) | ||
| Volcano Hummingbird | Selasphorus flammula Salvin, 1865 | MA : Costa Rica, w Panama | |
| S. f. flammula Salvin, 1865 | Irazú and Turrialba Volc. (Costa Rica) | ||
| S. f. simoni Carriker, 1910 | Poás and Barba Volc. (Costa Rica) | ||
| S. f. torridus Salvin, 1870 | Talamanca Range (Costa Rica) and Barú Volc. (w Panama) | ||
| Glow-throated Hummingbird | Selasphorus ardens Salvin, 1870 | MA : wc Panama | |
| Scintillant Hummingbird | Selasphorus scintilla (Gould, 1851) | MA : nc Costa Rica, w Panama | |
| Calliope Hummingbird | Selasphorus calliope (Gould, 1847) | NA : w | TAX : Calliope Hummingbird, formerly in the monotypic genus Stellula, placed in Selasphorus following AOU 2012. |