Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernNectar

ForestCup nestTiny · 3 g

Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Aitor, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Garden Emerald sounds like

Sonogram of the Garden Emerald: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The garden emerald is 7.8 to 8.5 cm (3.1 to 3.3 in) long and weighs about 3 to 4.1 g (0.11 to 0.14 oz). The adult male has dark metallic green upperparts with bluish green uppertail coverts. Its forked tail is blue-black and the central feathers have a light bluish green gloss. Its underparts are a brighter metallic green than the upperparts, sometimes with a light blue sheen, and it has white thigh tufts. The adult female has bright metallic green to bronze green upperparts with bluish green uppertail coverts. Voice: The garden emerald's vocalizations are not well known but appear to be similar to those of Canivet's emerald (Cynanthus canivetii). That species' song is believed to be "an endlessly repeated, characterless wiry tseee tseeree" and its call has been described as "a dry, scratchy chut or chit, sometimes run together into a soft, staccato chatter".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Garden Emerald

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

Where to see the Garden Emerald

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Panama Costa Rica

About the Garden Emerald

The garden emerald is a small hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Red-billed EmeraldChlorostilbon gibsoniThe red-billed emerald is 7.6 to 9 cm (3.0 to 3.5 in) long and weighs about 2.8 g (0.099 oz).

Blue-tailed EmeraldChlorostilbon mellisugusMale blue-tailed emeralds are 7.5 to 9.5 cm (3.0 to 3.7 in) long and females 6.5 to 7.5 cm (2.6 to 3.0 in).

Short-tailed EmeraldChlorostilbon poortmaniThe male short-tailed emerald is 6.9 to 8.5 cm (2.7 to 3.3 in) long and females 6.5 to 7.5 cm (2.6 to 3.0 in).

Side by side: Garden Emerald vs Glittering-bellied Emerald · Garden Emerald vs Western Emerald · Blue-tailed Emerald vs Garden Emerald · Garden Emerald vs Red-billed Emerald · Garden Emerald vs Short-tailed Emerald

Learn the Garden Emerald in the BeakBrain App

Photo and call practice. Coming soon to iPhone and Android.

Play today's Daily Bird

Every photo and recording on this page is credited to its author under the licence shown. Spotted a problem with this page, or have a better photo? Contribute.