White-bellied Emerald - BirdForum Opus

Sexes virtually alike
Photo © by:peterday
Rio Santiago Wildlife Refuge. Honduras March 2016

Chlorestes candida

Amazilia candida
Agyrtria candida

Identification

Underside from chin to undertail coverts white but with greenish flecks on flank. Upperside green. Tail is bronzy-green with dark subterminal band (tail also dark from underside). There is a white post-ocular spot. Bill is red with dark culmen and small dark tip to lower mandible.
Female identical except for white tail corners

Distribution

Sexes virtually alike
Photo © by: peterday
Pico Bonito Lodge. Honduras March 2016

Mexico to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Nicaragua; a few observations in Costa Rica. Two subspecies are found on the Caribbean side, the third on the Pacific slope.

Taxonomy

This is a polytypic species^[1] consisting of 3 subspecies.

This species has, in the past, been placed in genus Agyrtria.

Subspecies

• C. c. genini
  • Caribbean slope of south-eastern Mexico
• C. c. pacifica
  • Pacific slope of south-eastern Mexico (Chiapas) to southern Guatemala
• C. c. candida
  • Humid south-eastern Mexico (Yucatán Pen.) to Belize and Nicaragua

Habitat

Dry or moist lowland forests.

Behaviour

Mostly feeds at flowers and feeds fairly low, while it may sing higher.

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  Photo © byPeter R. Bono
  January 2009
  Central Vallarta road, Quintana Roo, Mexico

References

1. 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/
2. Howell & Webb, 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198540124
3. Garrigues and Dean 2007. The birds of Costa Rica - a field guide. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-bellied Emerald. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 24 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-bellied_Emerald

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