Azure-crowned Hummingbird

Saucerottia cyanocephala (Lesson, RP, 1830)

Azure-crowned Hummingbird, Saucerottia cyanocephala, is a hummingbird of Middle America, breeding from eastern Mexico south to Nicaragua. It occurs in Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, and also in Mexico. It is mainly a bird of forest edges, scrub and secondary growth, with one form also using lowland pine savanna. The species is usually sedentary, though it may shift locally with the seasons. Its breeding season runs from February to July, and it builds a cup nest in a fork, on a branch, or even on utility wires in towns.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

Middle America: e Mexico to Nicaragua