Blue-tailed Emerald

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Chlorostilbon

eBird Code

blteme1

Subspecies (7)

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus caribaeus

  northeastern Venezuela including Isla Margarita, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, and Trinidad

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus duidae

  tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Duida)

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus mellisugus

  Suriname, French Guiana, and lower Amazonian Brazil

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus napensis

  northeastern Peru

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus peruanus

  eastern Peru and eastern Bolivia

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus phoeopygus

  upper Amazonia

• Chlorostilbon mellisugus subfurcatus

  southern Venezuela to Guyana and northwestern Brazil (Rio Branco region)