Short-tailed Emerald

Chlorostilbon poortmani (Bourcier, 1843)

Spanish: Esmeralda Colicorta

The Short-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 3.3 g and its bill is 18.7 mm long. It lives in Colombia and Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

3.3 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

18.7 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Some populations migrate

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

• Colombia
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Chlorostilbon

• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
• Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
• Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni
• Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
• Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi
• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
• Blue-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon mellisugus
• 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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