Narrow-tailed Emerald

Chlorostilbon stenurus (Cabanis & Heine, 1860)

Spanish: Esmeralda Colifina

The Narrow-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon stenurus) 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 19.2 mm long. It lives in Venezuela and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.4 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

19.2 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

• Venezuela
• Colombia

Others in the genus Chlorostilbon

• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani
• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
• Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni
• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
• Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi
• Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
• 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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