Cinnamon Hummingbird

Amazilia rutilaOrder: APODIFORMESFamily: Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Cinnamon Hummingbird Head Illustration_2

Head

  • Bill Shape: Needle
  • Eye color: Brown iris
  • Head Pattern: Plain
  • Crown color: Green
  • Forehead color: Green
  • Nape Color: Green
  • Throat color: Rufous or Rust
  • Cere color:
Cinnamon Hummingbird Body Illustration_2

Body

  • Length Range: 10-11 cm (4-4.5 in)
  • Weight: 6 g (0.2 oz)
  • Size: Size 1. Very Small (3 - 5 in)
  • Color: Green, Rufous or Rust
  • Underparts: Cinnamon
  • Upperparts: Green
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
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Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Swift and direct flight on rapidly beating wings.
  • Wingspan Range: 13-14 cm (5-5.5 in)
  • Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Squared Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Rufous tail with gold-green edging.
  • Upper Tail: Rufous
  • Under Tail: Rufous
  • Leg color: Black
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Family Hummingbird (Trochilidae)_blue
Species Amazilia rutila
Length4 - 4.5 Inches
Wingspan5.25 Inches

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Cinnamon Hummingbird: Medium size, bicolored hummingbird with bronze green upperparts and cinnamon colored underparts. The tail is square, rufous with gold-green edging. This promiscuous bird attracts a female by flying back and forth like a swing. Both sexes are protective of feeding territories.

● Song: "chi-chi chi chi", "tsi si si-si-sit"

● Foraging & Feeding: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Feeds and perches low to high. Visits flowering shrubs, trees, and epiphytes. Aggressive near feeding areas, may defend feeding territory.

● Breeding & nesting: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a tidy cup of fern tree scales and seed down, covered with lichen and bound with spider webbing. Nest is built by female 3 to 16 feet above ground in a tree or shrub. Female incubates eggs for 13-15 days, altricial young fly between 14 and 23 days.

● Similar species: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Buff-bellied Hummingbird has a rufous tail, green chin, throat, and breast, and buff belly and undertail coverts. Berylline Hummingbird has deep green upperparts and underparts, and rufous-chestnut wings, tail, and rump.

Flight Pattern

Swift and direct flight on rapidly beating wings.
Cinnamon Hummingbird Body Illustration_2
● Range & Habitat: Cinnamon Hummingbird: Accidental in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Common in native Mexico to Central America. Found in a wide variety of habitats at low elevations, such as plantations, scrublands with thorns, arid areas, woodland edges, and grassy fields and pastures.
BreedingPolygamous, Promiscuous
PopulationAccidental
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.2 Ounces