Birds of the World


Amethyst-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis amethystinus amethystinus) Male Range: MA: c Mexico to Honduras Volcán de Fuego, Jalisco, Mexico
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Amethyst-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis amethystinus salvini) Female Range: MA: c Mexico to Honduras San Cristóbal-Tzomtehuitz road, Chiapas, Mexico
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Purple-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis calolaemus) Male Range: MA: s Nicaragua to w Panama Poas Volcano Lodge, Costa Rica
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Purple-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis calolaemus) Female Range: MA: s Nicaragua to w Panama Monteverde, Costa Rica
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Compare to Grey-tailed Mountaingem. Female similar, but this species has a greener tail.
Alt. photo.


White-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis castaneoventris) Male Range: MA: w Panama Parque Nacional de la Amistad, Guadalupe, Panama
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


White-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis castaneoventris) Female Range: MA: w Panama Parque Nacional de la Amistad, Guadalupe, Panama
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Split with the Grey-tailed Mountaingem. The White-throated is mostly in Panama and the male has a dark blue tail (not seen well here).
Perched.


Grey-tailed Mountaingem (Lampornis cinereicauda) Male Range: MA: s Costa Rica Savegre Valley, Costa Rica
Photograph by Don Faulkner Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Split from the White-throated Mountaingem. The Grey-tailed is mostly in Costa Rica, while the White-throated is in Panama. The male has a grey (and not dark blue) tail. Female very similar to Purple-throated Mountaingem, but that species has a greener tail.


Blue-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis clemenciae) Range: NA, MA: sw USA to c Mexico Arizona, United States
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White-bellied Mountaingem (Lampornis hemileucus) Male Range: MA: Costa Rica and Panama Mirador Cinchona, Vara Blanca, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


White-bellied Mountaingem (Lampornis hemileucus) Female Range: MA: Costa Rica and Panama Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.

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Green-breasted Mountaingem (Lampornis sybillae) Range: MA: Honduras and Nicaragua


Green-throated Mountaingem (Lampornis viridipallens) Range: MA: s Mexico to El Salvador Tacana, Mexico The green scales on the throat are spaced apart.
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.