Glittering-throated Emerald

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Chionomesa

eBird Code

glteme1

Subspecies (7)

• Chionomesa fimbriata apicalis

  Colombia east of the Andes

• Chionomesa fimbriata elegantissima

  far northeastern Colombia to northern Venezuela

• Chionomesa fimbriata fimbriata

  northeastern Venezuela to the Guianas and Brazil north of the Amazon

• Chionomesa fimbriata fluviatilis

  southeastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador

• Chionomesa fimbriata laeta

  northeastern Peru

• Chionomesa fimbriata nigricauda

  eastern Bolivia and central Brazil south of the Amazon

• Chionomesa fimbriata tephrocephala

  coastal southeastern Brazil (Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul)