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Seeing Wine-throated Hummingbird in Guatemala
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male Wine-throated Hummingbird in Guatemala
Male Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti in the Guatemalan highlands.

Wine-throated Hummingbird was formerly placed in the genus Atthis, together with the Bumblebee Hummingbird (Selasphorus heloisa). Both species are very similar, but with non-overlapping distribution ranges. The Bumblebee Hummingbird is restricted to the Mexican highlands north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the Wine-throated Hummingbird (Selasphorus ellioti) is endemic to the highlands south of the isthmus, including southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

male Wine-throated Hummingbird
Male Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti with widely spread gorget plumage, seen in the Guatemalan highlands.

In Guatemala, Wine-throated Hummingbird occurs above 1500 m (4900 ft), mainly above 2000 m (6560 ft). During the breeding season, males gather on leks.

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Humid upper mountain slope in the highlands of Guatemala: habitat of Wine-throated Hummingbird.

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Photographs of Wine-throated Hummingbird seen during CAYAYA BIRDING tours in Guatemala

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Videos of Wine-throated Hummingbird seen during CAYAYA BIRDING tours in Guatemala

Pink flash of Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti in the highlands of Guatemala

A singing male Wine-throated Hummingbird ... seen during a CAYAYA BIRDING tour in the highlands of Guatemala.

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Male Wine-throated Hummingbird
Male Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti in the Guatemalan highlands.

Contributions by Knut Eisermann and Claudia Avendaño of CAYAYA BIRDING to the knowledge about Wine-throated Hummingbird

  • Eisermann, K., C. Avendaño & P. Tanimoto (2013). Birds of the Cerro El Amay Important Bird Area, Quiché, Guatemala. Cotinga 35: 81-93.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Guatemala. Pp. 235-242 In: C. Devenish, D. F. Diaz Fernández, R. P. Clay, I. Davidson & I. Y. Zabala (eds.) Important Bird Areas Americas, priority sites for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 16. Birdlife International, Quito, Ecuador.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Conservation priority-setting in Guatemala through the identification of Important Bird Areas. Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference, Tundra to Tropics: 315-327.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2007) Lista comentada de las aves de Guatemala - Annotated checklist of the birds of Guatemala. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2006) Diversidad de aves en Guatemala, con una lista bibliográfica. Pp. 525-623 In: E. Cano (ed.) Biodiversidad de Guatemala, Vol. 1. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala.
  • Eisermann, K. & U. Schulz (2005) Birds of a high-altitude cloud forest in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Revista de Biología Tropical 53: 577-594.
  • More about our bird research in Guatemala.
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