Short-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani)
About the Short-tailed Emerald
The short-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has also been called Poortman's emerald hummingbird. Two subspecies of short-tailed emerald are recognized by the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), and the Clements taxonomy. They are the nominate C. p. poortmani and C. p. euchloris. However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World includes as a third subspecies what the other three taxonomic systems treat as a full species, the green-tailed emerald (C. alice). In addition, subspecies euchloris has been treated as a separate species by some authors.
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Listed as recorded in Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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- Garden EmeraldChlorostilbon assimilisrecording
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