Western Emerald
Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus Gould, 1860
Spanish: Western Emerald
The Western Emerald (Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus) 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 16.0 mm long. It lives in Colombia and Ecuador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 2.6 g, about 3 paperclips
- Bill
- 16.0 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Some populations migrate
- Red List status
- Least concern
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Trochilini emeralds
- Genus Chlorostilbon emeralds
Where it lives · 2 countries
Others in the genus Chlorostilbon
- Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
- Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus
- Green-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon alice
- Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
- Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani
- Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
- 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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