# Hummingbird birds of Puerto Rico

Canonical source: https://birdsofpuertorico.com/family/hummingbird

Browsing group in the Birds of Puerto Rico guide; not necessarily a formal taxonomic family.

About 320 species of small, often brightly coloured birds of the family Trochilidae, usually placed with the swifts in the order Apodiformes but sometimes separated in their own order, Trochiliformes. The brilliant, glittering colours and elaborately specialized feathers of many species (usually of the males only) led the 19th-century British naturalist John Gould to give many hummingbirds exotic common names, many of which are still in use—e.g., coquette, fairy, hill star, wood star, sapphire, topaz, sun gem, and sylph.

## Species in this group

- [Antillean Crested Hummingbird](https://birdsofpuertorico.com/bird/98/Antillean-Crested-Hummingbird.md): Orthorhyncus cristatus.
- [Antillean Mango](https://birdsofpuertorico.com/bird/90/Antillean-Mango.md): Anthracothorax dominicus.
- [Green Mango](https://birdsofpuertorico.com/bird/92/Green-Mango.md): Anthracothorax viridis.
- [Green-throated Carib](https://birdsofpuertorico.com/bird/94/Green-throated-Carib.md): Eulampis holosericeus.
- [Puerto Rican Emerald](https://birdsofpuertorico.com/bird/96/Puerto-Rican-Emerald.md): Riccordia maugeaus.