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Fork-tailed Emerald

Common Name Fork-tailed Emerald

Scientific Name Chlorostilbon canivetii

Species Birds

Family/Group Hummingbirds

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Description

Bill fairly short, straight with black tip in both sexes (duller in female). Male shining bronzy green above, crown more glittering green; brilliant glittering green below; rather large white leg-tufts; tail blue-black, quite deeply forked. Female shining green above, bronzier on crown, with white postocular streak and dusky ear-coverts; uniform pale grayish below, some green on side; tail less deeply forked than in male, outer feathers narrowly tipped pale grayish.

Habitat

Widespread and often common in a variety of semiopen habitats in lowlands on both slopes south to Nicaragua.

Nicaragua Animal Guide