Puerto Rican Emerald

Riccordia maugaeus (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801)

Spanish: Esmeralda Puertorriqueña

The Puerto Rican Emerald (Riccordia maugaeus) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.1 g and its bill is 17.4 mm long. It is found only in Puerto Rico. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.1 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

17.4 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, stable

Endemic

Found only in Puerto Rico

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
4. Genus Riccordia emeralds

Where it lives · 1 country

• Puerto Rico

Others in the genus Riccordia

• Hispaniolan Emerald Riccordia swainsonii
• Blue-headed Hummingbird Riccordia bicolor
• Brace's Emerald Riccordia bracei
• Cuban Emerald Riccordia ricordii

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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