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The 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). The males of all three subspecies have a straight bill with a mostly red mandible. The females' mandibles are red at the base. The bills are about 1.3 cm (0.51 in) long. Males of the nominate subspecies have dark bronze-green upperparts and a deeply forked blue-black tail. Their faces and underparts are glittering green to golden green. Nominate females are shining green above and plain gray below with dusky cheeks and a short white line behind the eye. Voice: The red-billed emerald's song is "a continuous series of wiry trilled notes, 'wirrr...wirrr...wirrr...'". It also makes "high-pitched penetrating 'tseeee' and a reedy 'tzreee'" calls.
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When to see the Red-billed Emerald
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red-billed Emerald
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Red-billed Emerald
The red-billed emerald is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Garden EmeraldChlorostilbon assimilisThe 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).
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).
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).
Side by side: Red-billed Emerald vs Western Emerald · Blue-tailed Emerald vs Red-billed Emerald · Garden Emerald vs Red-billed Emerald · Oasis Hummingbird vs Red-billed Emerald · Red-billed Emerald vs Short-tailed Emerald
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