Amazilia luciae
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The Honduran emerald (Amazilia luciae) is a vulnerable species of hummingbird in the "emeralds" tribe, Trochilini, of the subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Honduras. The Honduran emerald was formally described in 1868 by the American amateur ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence based on a specimen collected in Honduras. He placed the species in the genus Thaumatias and coined the binomial name Thaumatias luciae. He chose the epithet to honor Lucy Brewer, the daughter of the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer. The Honduran emerald is now placed with four other species in the genus Amazilia that was introduced in 1843 by the French naturalist René Lesson. The genus name comes from the Inca heroine in Jean-François Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
The Honduran emerald is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long. Both sexes have a medium length bill, slightly decurved, with a black maxilla and a red mandible with a black tip. Adult males have a dark green crown and upperparts that become bronzy on the lower back and uppertail coverts. Its central tail feathers are dark... Wikipedia →
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Honduras · 2012
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Honduras · 2010
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Honduras · 2021
© Denilson Eliu Ordoñez Moreno · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pico Bonito National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Honduran Emerald sighting in Pico Bonito National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 79th most-seen of the 271 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and November–December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Honduran Emerald in Pico Bonito National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, June and September–October, the lowest months. Those are among Pico Bonito National Park's wettest months, with about 290 mm of rain a month against 80 mm in April.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Honduran Emerald sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Pico Bonito National Park, in our data
Pico Bonito National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Honduran Emerald sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Honduran Emerald is recorded against all the birds logged in Pico Bonito National Park (8 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
