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Anna's Hummingbird

Calypte anna
ANHU · Trochilidae · Hummingbirds
Forest provisional · from avonet
221heard

Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) is a medium-sized bird species of the family Trochilidae. It was named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli.It is native to western coastal regions of North America. In the early 20th century, Anna's hummingbirds bred only in northern Baja California and southern California. The transplanting of exotic ornamental plants in residential areas throughout the Pacific coast and inland deserts provided expanded nectar and nesting sites, allowing the species to expand its breeding…

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mean confidence
5 in wingspan

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Anna's Hummingbird
Robert McMorran, United States Fish and Wildlife ServicePublic domain
221Detections
49Days heard
0.68Mean confidence
1 AugFirst heard
27 SepLast heard
2,641Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

23 Aug 27 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home214 detections
On outings7 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-20 14:04
9 s
0.99
2026-09-24 07:14
9 s
0.96
2026-09-19 07:52
9 s
0.95
2026-08-13 08:10
9 s
0.94
2026-09-12 07:32
9 s
0.92
2026-09-10 06:51
9 s
0.92
2026-09-09 06:42
9 s
0.92
2026-08-13 08:10
9 s
0.92
2026-09-14 07:03
9 s
0.91
2026-09-07 08:21
9 s
0.91
2026-08-12 07:20
9 s
0.91
2026-09-27 07:25
9 s
0.91
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 28 Sep, 12:15pm Archive