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Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis)

Garden Emerald
Photo: Joseph C Boone via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Garden Emerald

The garden emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis) is a small hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. The garden emerald was at one time considered a subspecies of the blue-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon mellisugus). As its own species, it is monotypic.

Source: Garden emerald on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Garden Emerald. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:16) via xeno-canto.org/1028541, licensed Public Domain / CC0 — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Costa Rica, Panama · xeno-canto lists 4 recordings for this species in total.

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