Blue-chinned sapphire

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Blue-chinned sapphire
Blue-chinned sapphire (Chlorestes notata notata) male.jpg
Male C. n. notata, Trinidad
CITES Appendix II (CITES) [2]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Chlorestes
Species:
C. notata
Binomial name
Chlorestes notata
(Reich, 1793)
Chlorestes notata map.svg
Synonyms

Chlorostilbon notatus
Trochilus notatus

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 3,000 km (1,900 mi)). It is sometimes placed in the genus Chlorostilbon .

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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 (3.5 in) long and weighs 3.8 g (18 oz). 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.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Chlorostilbon notatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22687296A93146776. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22687296A93146776.en . Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  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.