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White-bellied Emerald

Chlorestes candida

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) linderman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

Mexico	827
Quintana Roo	261
Chiapas	179
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	157
Guatemala	104
Petén	76
Tabasco	61
Yucatan	56
Campeche	53
Oaxaca	47

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

HoveringCan hover in place while flyingChecked by the maintainer

Group and habits

Nectar feederDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly feed on nectar.Inferred from its group
Cup nestingListed by a harvested source as building cup nests.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Tree nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in trees.BIRDBASE avian traits database

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Birds · Aves
Order	Swifts and Hummingbirds · Apodiformes
Family	Hummingbirds · Trochilidae
Genus	Chlorestes

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: BIRDBASE avian traits database (CC BY 4.0)
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