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White-necked jacobin
Florisuga mellivora · Family Trochilidae
Florisuga mellivora
Family Trochilidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 250,814
- Countries and territories with records
- 25
About this species
This species has 250,814 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (26.7%), Costa Rica (21.1%), Ecuador (16.9%), Panama (12.7%) and Belize (7.2%); together they account for 84.7% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Florisuga mellivora combines the genus name Florisuga with the species epithet mellivora. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Florisuga: Florisuga fusca.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 345 species of the family Trochilidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Calypte anna. Its record count is 3.7 times the family average (68,569). The family Trochilidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.