Blue-chinned Sapphire

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When to see the Blue-chinned Sapphire

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-chinned Sapphire

The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Ecuador.

About the Blue-chinned Sapphire

The blue-chinned sapphire or blue-chinned emerald is a hummingbird that ranges from Colombia south and east to the Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, and Brazil. There have been occasional records from Tobago. For Brazil, the species' range is along the main Amazon River Basin, as well as the Atlantic Forest, both in the northeast, as well as far south on the southeast coastal strip,. It is sometimes placed in the genus Chlorostilbon.

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Easily confused with

White-chinned SapphireChlorestes cyanusThe white-chinned Sapphire is a small hummingbird measuring 8–9 centimetres (3.1–3.5 in) in length and weighing approximately 2.8–3.5 grams (0.099–0.123 oz).The species exhibits marked sexual dimorphism. Violet-bellied HummingbirdChlorestes julieThe violet-bellied hummingbird is characterized by the male's shimmering violet belly. Blue-throated SapphireChlorestes eliciaeThis medium-sized hummingbird measures 9 cm (3.5 in) and weighs 3.6 g (0.13 oz).

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