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Green-fronted Hummingbird
Photo: Francisco Emilio Roldán Velasco · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Green-fronted Hummingbird

Ramosomyia viridifrons (Elliot, DG, 1871)

Spanish: Colibrí Frente Verde

The Green-fronted Hummingbird (Ramosomyia viridifrons) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 6.3 g and its bill is 23.9 mm long. It lives in Mexico and Guatemala. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
6.3 g, about 6 paperclips
Bill
23.9 mm
Lives in
Woodland
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 Ramosomyia

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Ramosomyia

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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