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Chlorestes
The blue-chinned sapphire (Chlorestes notata) is a hummingbird that breeds from Colombia south and east to the Guianas, Trinidad, Peru, and Brazil. There have been occasional records from Tobago. For Brazil, the species' range is along the main Amazon River Basin, as well as the Atlantic Forest, both in the northeast, as well as far south on the southeast coastal strip, (an entire coastal strip, north-east-south of about 3000 km). It is sometimes placed in the genus...
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
White-bellied Emerald
speciesChlorestes candida
Violet-bellied Hummingbird
speciesChlorestes julie
Blue-chinned Sapphire
speciesChlorestes notata
Blue-throated Goldentail
speciesChlorestes eliciae
White-chinned Sapphire
speciesChlorestes cyanus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71683.