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The olive-spotted hummingbird is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs about 6 g (0.21 oz). The sexes are essentially the same. They have a straight blackish bill; the females are slightly longer than the males. Adults have a bronze crown and neck and the rest of their upper parts are grayish-green to bronze-green. Their throat is olive green which sometimes appears speckled with golden green and the rest of the underparts are whitish. Their tail is pale grayish green to olive green with grayish tips on the inner feathers and grayish outer webs to the others. Voice: The olive-spotted hummingbird's song is "a monotonous series of multisyllabic notes, e.g. 'cliCHEW cliCHEW cliCHEW...'" and its calls include "a sharp 'seek', a wiry 'seeuee', a rich chatter and a hard 'tcht'."
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When to see the Olive-spotted Hummingbird
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Olive-spotted Hummingbird
The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Olive-spotted Hummingbird
The olive-spotted hummingbird is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of the subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Bronze-tailed ThornbillChalcostigma heteropogonThe bronze-tailed thornbill is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 5.9 to 6.3 g (0.21 to 0.22 oz).
Blue-headed SapphireChrysuronia grayiThe blue-headed sapphire is 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long.
Veraguan MangoAnthracothorax veraguensisThe Veraguan mango is a medium-sized hummingbird species, reaching lengths of 11–12 cm.
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