![]() The female resembles the male for the most part, but her plumage below is brownish-grey with green flanks. The undertail feathers are white and the tail is deeply forked. The plumage above is dark green and the plumage below is glossy green with a hint of metallic blue. The male has a short bill with a black upper beak and a red lower beak with a black tip. Both sexes have a whitish spot behind the eye. The female weighs about 0.12 oz or 3.4 grams and the male ~0.18 oz or 5 grams. The male averages 4 – 4.5 inches (10.5 – 11.5 cm) in length and the female 3.7 – 4.1 inches (9.5 to 10.5 cm). The Cuban Emerald Hummingbirds is a smallish dark-green hummingbird. They are common in parts of their native range (Stotz et al. They occur in a wide range of semi-open habitats but also live in forests and gardens. USA: They are vagrants to the United States ( Florida).The Turks and Caicos Islands (located east-southeast of Florida, USA) and Cuba.The Bahamas (southeast of USA) – Grand Bahama, Great Abaco, Andros, Green Cay) casual in rest of Bahamas.The only other hummingbird in Cuba is the Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) – the smallest of all birds - and the occasional Ruby-throated Hummingbird in transit. Cuba (south of Florida) – including Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo and nearby cays) and Isle of Pines (now renamed to have renamed it the Isle of Youth).Spanish: Esmeralda Cubana, Esmeralda Zunzún, Zunzún … Italian: Colibrì smeraldo di Cuba, Smeraldo di Cuba … French: Émeraude de Ricord … German: Kuba Kolibri, Kubakolibri, Kubasmaragdkolibri, Ricord-Kolibri … Czech: Kolibrík kubánský, kolib?ík kubánský … Danish: Cubasmaragd …, Finnish: Kuubansmaragdikolibri … Dutch: Cubaanse Smaragdkolibrie … Norwegian: Kubasmaragd … Polish: zlocik kubanski, z?ocik kuba?ski … Russian: ? … Slovak: smaragdovec drobný … Swedish: Kubansk smaragdkolibri, Kubasmaragd … Japanese: kyuabahimeemerarudohachidori, kyu-bahimeemerarudohachidori, ?, ? … Chinese: ?Ĭuban Emerald Hummingbirds are native to: ![]() However, this form is now by most authorities considered to be a separate species. These three species were formerly separated in genus Riccordia and included the Brace’s Emerald (Chlorostilbon bracei) – an extinct race that was endemic to the main island of the Bahamas, New Providence. ![]() The Cuban Emerald Hummingbirds ( Chlorostilbon ricordii, Gervais, 1835) forms a superspecies with the Hispaniolan Emerald (Chlorostilbon swainsonii) and the Puerto Rican Emerald (Chlorostilbon maugaeus).
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