La historia
This Western Emerald (Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus) was at Hacienda Guadalajara in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia when I photographed it. The male has a glittering green crown with gold highlights and a steel blue tail. The female has a blackish face with a pale gray spot behind the eye. It readily accepts man-made habitats and is fairly common across its range. It is found from the Western Andes of Colombia south into Ecuador. Palmira lies on the east bank of the Cauca River and is a center of the valley’s large sugar mills.
I made this frame with a Pentax K-1 and the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6, at 1/3200 sec, f/7.1, ISO 1600. IUCN includes the Western Emerald in its assessment of Chlorostilbon mellisugus, which it lists as Least Concern, with a decreasing population.
©2020 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Western Emerald (Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus) pertenece a la familia Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2024), with the population trend listed as decreasing. IUCN does not yet assess the Western Emerald separately; this is the assessment of Blue-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon mellisugus), which IUCN treats as including it. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
