White-chinned sapphire

White-chinned sapphire
Female (above) and male (below) in São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Hylocharis
Species: H. cyanus
Binomial name
Hylocharis cyanus
Vieillot, 1818

The white-chinned sapphire (Hylocharis cyanus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Description

The male has a prussian blue head and is green with a red beak while the female is brown and white with a black beak.

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