Garden Emerald

Chlorostilbon assimilis Lawrence, 1861

Spanish: Esmeralda Afín

The Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis) 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 16.4 mm long. It lives in Panama and Costa Rica. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

2.6 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

16.4 mm

Lives in

Forest

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 Chlorostilbon emeralds

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Panama
• Costa Rica

Others in the genus Chlorostilbon

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
• Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
• Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
• 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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