Garden Emerald
Status: Uncommon Resident
Size: Tiny-sized Hummingbird (6 - 8 cm)
IUCN Red-List Status: Least Concern
Stratum: Understory
Life Zone(s): South Pacific Lowlands, Central Premontane
TAXONOMIC TREE: Caprimulgiformes, Trochilidae, Chlorostilbon assimilis
**Costa Rica Near-Endemic**
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
The Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis) is a small hummingbird with limited range. Male entirely glittering green with dark forked tail. Bill is straight and all black. Does not have coppery rump like Steely-vented Hummingbird. Female is clean white below with distinctive black cheek and white line behind eye. Nearly identical to Canivet’s Emerald but no range overlap. Found in second-growth, gardens, and forest edge.
Garden Emerald Distribution Map (from eBird)
PHOTO GALLERY
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
@ Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
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