Wine-throated
Common name: Wine-throated Hummingbird
Scientific name: Selasphorus ellioti
Clades: Mellisugini - Bees
The Wine-throated Hummingbirds are tiny creatures that thrive in humid and semi-humid forests, pine-oak woodlands, and nearby shrubby areas. Due to their bee-like size and flight patterns, they primarily feed on nectar and can effortlessly steal it from other hummingbirds' floral territories. During courtship, males display by moving back and forth in front of females while calling continuously.
Atthis comprises two species of very small, montane hummingbirds characterized by short, rounded tails and relatively short, straight black bills. Their upperparts are green with rufous bases on the outer rectrices, while their underparts are mostly white. Male Wine-throated Hummingbirds sport a rose pink gorget with violet highlights, flaring at the corners. The female's throat is whitish, heavily spotted with dusky markings, and her flanks are cinnamon. A white collar across the breast contrasts with the spotted throat and cinnamon flanks.
2 subspecies:
S. E. ellioti
Distribution highlands of S Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala.S. E. selasphoroides
Distribution highlands of Honduras and N El Salvador.
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