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Male
Photo by jtwood
Costa Rica, November 2008

Chloroceryle aenea

[edit] Identification

13 cm.

• Oily green upperparts
• Yellow-orange collar
• Rufous underparts
• White belly
  

Female: has a narrow green breast band
Young birds resemble the adults, but have paler rufous underparts, no breast band, and speckled wings and flanks.

Female
Photo by rka
Photographed: Cacandee, Trinidad, 2007

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay

[edit] Taxonomy

Polytypic

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• C. a. stictoptera :

• Southern Mexico and Yucatán Peninsula to northern Costa Rica

• C. a. aenea:

• Central Costa Rica to northern Bolivia, Guianas and Brazil; Trinidad

[edit] Habitat

Woodland streams. Mangroves and wetlands

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

The unlined nest is in a horizontal tunnel usually into a river bank; sometimes into an earth mound or termite nest. Three or four white eggs are laid.

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: a weak tik or stony cht cht.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds