Red-billed Emerald

Chlorostilbon gibsoni (Fraser, 1840)

Spanish: Esmeralda Piquirroja

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

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At a glance

Weight

2.6 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

19.2 mm

Lives in

Woodland

Moves

Some populations migrate

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 Chlorostilbon emeralds

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Colombia
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Chlorostilbon

• Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi
• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
• Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus
• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani
• Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
• Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus

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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