Glittering-throated Emerald - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Jacamar
Glasgow, EBB, Guyana, December 2005

Chionomesa fimbriata

Amazilia fimbriata
Includes Tachira Emerald

Identification

8–12 cm (3¼-4¾ in)
It has a "glittering" green throat and a white stripe down the centre of the belly.
The bill is almost straight - black above and pink below.

Distribution

Female
Photo © by erikat
AdeK University, Uitvlucht (Paramaribo), Suriname, June 2007

Northern half of South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a polytypic species^[1] consisting of 7 subspecies.

This species is sometimes placed in genus Polyerata.

Subspecies

Male, Subspecies nigricauda
Photo © by Francisco Paludo
Casa da Rosane Taborda, Morretes, PR, Brazil, June 2017

C. f. elegantissima:

Extreme north-eastern Colombia to northern Venezuela

C. f. fimbriata:

North-eastern Venezuela to Guianas and Brazil north of the Amazon

C. f. apicalis:

Colombia east of the Andes

C. f. fluviatilis:

South-eastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador

C. f. laeta:

North-eastern Peru

C. f. nigricauda:

Eastern Bolivia and central Brazil south of the Amazon

C. f. tephrocephala:

Coastal south-eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul)

The subspecies distans is considered a hybrid and deleted.

Habitat

Gallery forest, second growth, xerophytic areas, open deciduous woodland, savannas, thorny scrub, gardens, llanos.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet includes nectar.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/91AD1DE4 ]. Retrieved 11 December 2021
Weller, A.A., G. M. Kirwan, and P. F. D. Boesman (2021). Glittering-throated Emerald (Chionomesa fimbriata), version 1.1. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.glteme1.01.1
BF Member observations

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Glittering-throated Emerald. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Glittering-throated_Emerald

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