Coppery-headed Emerald
Microchera cupreiceps (Lawrence, 1866)
Spanish: Esmeralda Capirotada
The Coppery-headed Emerald (Microchera cupreiceps) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 16.9 mm long. It is found only in Costa Rica. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.0 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 16.9 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
- Endemic
- Found only in Costa Rica
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Microchera snowcaps, emeralds
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Microchera
- Snowcap Microchera albocoronata
- White-tailed Emerald Microchera chionura
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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