Blue-tailed Emerald
Chlorostilbon mellisugus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spanish: Esmeralda Coliazul
The Blue-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon mellisugus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 2.6 g and its bill is 19.2 mm long. It lives in 13 countries, including Venezuela, Peru, Curaçao, Colombia and Aruba. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 2.6 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 19.2 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Some populations migrate
- Red List status
- Least concern
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Chlorostilbon emeralds
Where it lives · 13 countries
- Venezuela
- Peru
- Curaçao
- Colombia
- Aruba
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Ecuador
- Guyana
- Brazil
- Bolivia
- French Guiana
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Suriname
Others in the genus Chlorostilbon
- Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi
- Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni
- Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
- Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani
- Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
- Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
- Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
- Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
- Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
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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