The female has the distinctive greyish look with dark eyebrow of female Emeralds in general, but has a blue tail.
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Canon
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III
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f/5.6
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Uncalibrated
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0 EV
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Aperture Priority
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No Flash
Focal Length
600 mm
ISO
800
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Multi-Segment
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1/1600 sec
Date/Time
Thu 17 Apr 2014 09:26:37 AM EDT
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Defined: DKZ00023
English Blue-tailed Emerald
Scientific (Chlorostilbon mellisugus)
Order APODIFORMES
Family (Latin) Trochilidae
Family (English) Hummingbirds
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions SA
Breeding Range Subregions n, ne
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Bolivia,Brazil,Colombia,Ecuador - mainland,French Guiana,Guyana,Netherlands Antilles,Peru,Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
caribaeus ne Venezuela, Trinidad and Netherlands Antilles
duidae Mt. Duida (s Venezuela)
subfurcatus s Venezuela, Guyana and Rio Branco region (nw Brazil)
mellisugus Suriname, French Guiana and ne Brazil
phoeopygus upper Amazonia
napensis ne Peru
peruanus se Peru and e Bolivia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Blauschwanz-Smaragdkolibri
French Émeraude orvert
Chinese 蓝尾翠蜂鸟
Japanese アイオヒメエメラルドハチドリ
Russian Синехвостый изумрудный колибри
Spanish Esmeralda coliazul
Portuguese esmeralda-de-cauda-azul
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Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)