Coppery Emerald

Chlorostilbon russatus (Salvin & Godman, 1881)

Spanish: Esmeralda Bronceada

The Coppery Emerald (Chlorostilbon russatus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.4 g and its bill is 17.8 mm long. It lives in Colombia and Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.4 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

17.8 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, decreasing

Its place in the family

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

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Colombia
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Chlorostilbon

• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
• Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
• Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani
• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
• Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni
• Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi
• Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus

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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