White-necked Jacobin

Florisuga mellivora (Linnaeus, 1758)

White-necked Jacobin, Florisuga mellivora, is a hummingbird that breeds from southern Mexico through Middle America and into Amazonia. It is found in humid forest canopy and along forest edges, and also in more open country including secondary forest, gallery forest, coffee plantations and cacao plantations. The male is striking, with a dark blue head and chest, a white belly and tail, and a white band on the nape that separates the head from the green back. Females vary more, but many show green upperparts, a blue-green throat and breast, and a white belly.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: s Mexico through Amazonia