Green-tailed Emerald

Chlorostilbon alice (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1848)

Spanish: Esmeralda Coliverde

The Green-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon alice) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.5 g and its bill is 15.2 mm long. It is found only in Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.5 g, about 4 paperclips

Bill

15.2 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Some populations migrate

Red List status

Least concern, stable

Endemic

Found only in Venezuela

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 · 1 country

• Venezuela

Others in the genus Chlorostilbon

• Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani
• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
• Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
• 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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