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Blue-tailed Emerald

Chlorostilbon mellisugus

Classification

Class
Aves

The blue-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon mellisugus) is a hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in tropical and subtropical South America east of the Andes from Colombia east to the Guianas and Trinidad, and south to northern Bolivia and central Brazil. Taxonomy and systematics The blue-tailed emerald was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus mellisugus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 3,585Brazil · 487