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The white-tailed emerald is 7.5 to 8 cm (3.0 to 3.1 in) long. Males weigh about 3.3 g (0.12 oz) and females 3.1 g (0.11 oz). Both sexes have an almost straight black bill whose mandible has a pinkish base. The adult male has bronzy green upperparts that becomes dark copper-bronze on the uppertail coverts. Its central two pairs of tail feathers are copper-bronze and the other three pairs white with black tips. It has a glittering green throat and chest and white belly, vent, and undertail coverts. The adult female also has bronzy green upperparts. Voice: The white-tailed emerald's song is "a prolonged, thin scratchy twittering mixed with buzzing or gurgling notes". It also makes "soft scratchy chipping notes" when foraging and "high-pitched, buzzy notes" when chasing.
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When to see the White-tailed 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 White-tailed Emerald
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the White-tailed Emerald
The white-tailed emerald is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is native to the Talamancan montane forests.
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Easily confused with
SnowcapMicrochera albocoronataThe snowcap is 6.5 to 7 cm (2.6 to 2.8 in) long and weighs about 2.7 g (0.095 oz).
Coppery-headed EmeraldMicrochera cupreicepsThe coppery-headed emerald is about 7.5 cm (3.0 in) long and weighs about 3.0 to 3.3 g (0.11 to 0.12 oz).
Side by side: Coppery-headed Emerald vs White-tailed Emerald · Snowcap vs White-tailed Emerald
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