Golden-crowned Emerald - BirdForum Opus

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Male perched on Jamaica vervain, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis. Photo © by THE_FERN
Puerto Vallarta Botanic Gardens, Jalisco, Mexico, April 2023

Cynanthus auriceps

Chlorostilbon auriceps

Identification

Male 7·5–8·5 cm, female 6·5–7·5 cm
Adult male with strongly forked tail, female less so. Bill is mostly red, upperside green, underside green in male, pale in female.

Similar species

No other similar species in its range. Smaller and longer-tailed than other related Mexican fork-tailed hummingbirds. Those species are allopatric.

Distribution

North America: found in western Mexico (s Sinaloa to Durango, Guerrero and Oaxaca).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1]; in the past it has been considered a part of Fork-tailed Emerald

Habitat

Photo © by THE_FERN
Puerto Vallarta Botanic Gardens, Jalisco, Mexico, April 2023

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. Arizmendi, M. d. C. (2021). Golden-crowned Emerald (Cynanthus auriceps), version 1.1. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.goceme1.01.1

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Golden-crowned Emerald. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 July 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Golden-crowned_Emerald

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