Canivet's Emerald

Canivet's Emerald
Canivet's Emerald
A male in Ulita, Honduras
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Chlorostilbon
Species: C. canivetii
Binomial name
Chlorostilbon canivetii
Lesson, 1832

The Canivet's Emerald or Fork-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon canivetii) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

The subspecies C. c. salvini is sometimes split as Salvin's Emerald.

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