Blue-headed Sapphire

Chrysuronia grayi (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)

Spanish: Amazilia Cabeciazul

The Blue-headed Sapphire (Chrysuronia grayi) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 5.6 g and its bill is 22.1 mm long. It lives in Colombia and Ecuador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

5.6 g, about 6 paperclips

Bill

22.1 mm

Lives in

Shrubland

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
4. Genus Chrysuronia emeralds, sapphires

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Colombia
• Ecuador

Others in the genus Chrysuronia

• Humboldt's Sapphire Chrysuronia humboldtii
• White-chested Emerald Chrysuronia brevirostris
• Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird Chrysuronia lilliae
• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster
• Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis
• Mangrove Hummingbird Chrysuronia boucardi
• Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone
• Shining-green Hummingbird Chrysuronia goudoti
• Versicolored Emerald Chrysuronia versicolor

Sources

Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.

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