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Male Cozumel emeralds are 9 to 10.5 cm (3.5 to 4.1 in) long and females 8 to 9.1 cm (3.1 to 3.6 in). Males and females both weigh about 2.5 g (0.088 oz). Males have a black bill with a red tip. Its crown is bright golden to golden green and the rest of the upperparts are a slightly duller golden green. Its underparts are brilliant metallic golden green with white tibial tufts. The tail is long and deeply forked, blue-black or black with a blue gloss, and the central two or three pairs of feathers have dark brownish gray tips. The female's maxilla is black and the mandible red with a black tip. Voice: The Cozumel emerald's vocalizations are described as similar to those of it close relatives, "dry, rattling and chattering calls".
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When to see the Cozumel Emerald
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Cozumel Emerald
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Cozumel Emerald
The Cozumel emerald is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula.
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Easily confused with
Turquoise-crowned HummingbirdCynanthus doubledayiThe Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Birds of the World does not describe the turquoise-crowned hummingbird separately from the broad-billed hummingbird.
Golden-crowned EmeraldCynanthus auricepsThe golden-crowned emerald is 7.5 to 9.5 cm (3.0 to 3.7 in) long and weighs about 2.2 g (0.078 oz).
Tres Marias HummingbirdCynanthus lawrenceiThe Tres Marias hummingbird has a broad reddish bill with a black tip.
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