Blue-chinned sapphire

The blue-chinned sapphire or blue-chinned emerald (Chlorestes notata) is a hummingbird that ranges from Colombia south and east to the Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, and Brazil.[3] There have been occasional records from Tobago. For Brazil, the species' range is along the main Amazon River Basin, as well as the Atlantic Forest, both in the northeast, as well as far south on the southeast coastal strip, (an entire coastal strip, north-east-south of about 3000 km). It is sometimes placed in the genus Chlorostilbon.

Blue-chinned sapphire
Male C. n. notata, Trinidad
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Chlorestes
Species:
C. notata
Binomial name
Chlorestes notata
(Reich, 1793)
Synonyms

Chlorostilbon notatus
Chlorestes notatus

It is a bird of forests and sometimes cultivated areas with large trees. The female lays her eggs in a deep cup nest, made of lichen and other fine plant material and placed on a horizontal tree branch. Incubation is 16 days with a further 18–19 days to fledging.

Blue-chinned sapphires feed on insects and nectar, mainly in trees but sometimes on vines, shrubs, herbs, epiphytes[4] or smaller plants like Heliconia. The song is a high metallic ssooo-ssooo-ssooo.

Description

The blue-chinned sapphire is 8.9 cm long and weighs 3.8 g. The bill is fairly straight, with the upper mandible black and the lower reddish. The male has mainly green plumage, darker above, with white thighs, a forked metallic blue tail and blue upper throat. The female differs from the male in that she has green-spotted white underparts.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Chlorestes notata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. Fogden, Michael; Taylor, Marianne; Williamson, Sheri L. (2014). Hummingbirds: A life sized guide to every species. United States, Canada: Harper Design. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-06-228064-0.
  4. "Chlorostilbon notatus (Blue-chinned Sapphire)" (PDF). Sta.uwi.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  • ffrench, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd ed.). Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
  • Hilty, Steven L (2003). Birds of Venezuela. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5.


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