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Rufous-tailed hummingbird
Amazilia tzacatl · Family Trochilidae
Amazilia tzacatl
Family Trochilidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 834,061
- Countries and territories with records
- 18
About this species
This species has 834,061 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (41.8%), Colombia (19.2%), Belize (12.4%), Panama (11.1%) and Ecuador (7.6%); together they account for 92.1% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 1.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Amazilia tzacatl combines the genus name Amazilia with the species epithet tzacatl. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Amazilia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Amazilia rutila, Amazilia yucatanensis and Amazilia luciae.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 345 species of the family Trochilidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Calypte anna. Its record count is 12.2 times the family average (68,569). The family Trochilidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.