Brace's Emerald

Riccordia bracei (Lawrence, 1877)

Spanish: Esmeralda de Brace

The Brace's Emerald (Riccordia bracei) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). The IUCN Red List lists it as Extinct.

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At a glance

Red List status

Extinct

Its place in the family

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

Where it lives · 1 country

• Bahamas extinct here

Others in the genus Riccordia

• Cuban Emerald Riccordia ricordii
• Hispaniolan Emerald Riccordia swainsonii
• Puerto Rican Emerald Riccordia maugaeus
• Blue-headed Hummingbird Riccordia bicolor

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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