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Green-throated mountaingem

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532: 56: 42: 122: 80: 413:. Their central tail feathers are black and the rest pale gray. Their throat is white with bluish green spots, their breast white, their belly grayish with green spots on the sides and flanks, and their undertail coverts dusky gray. Adult females have emerald green upperparts and an unspotted white throat but are otherwise like the male. Juveniles are like adult females but with a pale buffy throat. 573:
has assessed the green-throated mountaingem as being of Least Concern, though its population size is unknown and believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified. It is considered generally common and is found in some protected areas. However, it has a restricted range and "parts
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What is thought to be the green-throated mountaingem's song is "a complex warble of squeaky notes and buzzy, gurgling trills, 'tsee-tsee-glr-tsee-glr-tsee-glugluglugluglu-glr-glr-tsee'." Its calls include "a hard, buzzy 'zzrrt', a short 'tsik' and high-pitched thin 'see'."
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The green-throated mountaingem is 11 to 12 cm (4.3 to 4.7 in) long and weighs about 5.4 g (0.19 oz). Both sexes of all subspecies have a straight black bill, a white stripe behind the eye above a dark cheek, and a slightly forked tail.
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The green-throated mountaingem forages for nectar at all levels of the forest. Details of the plants it visits have not been described. In addition to nectar it also feeds on insects captured by
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The green-throated mountaingem is known to breed in March, April, June, and July, but no other information about its breeding
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Adult males of the nominate subspecies have green upperparts with a bronzy rump and bluish black uppertail
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and pine-oak forest. In elevation it ranges between 900 and 2,700 m (3,000 and 8,900 ft).
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differs from the nominate only in having a lesser extent of green spots on the sides and flanks.
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of habitat are under threat of deforestation not known to tolerate man-made habitats."
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Züchner, T. and P. F. D. Boesman (2020). Green-throated Mountain-gem (
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is darker overall than the nominate and is less bronzy on the rump.
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The subspecies of green-throated mountaingem are found thus:
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The green-throated mountaingem has sometimes been considered
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has dark green upperparts and an intensely bronze rump.
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The species inhabits the interior and edges of humid
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Green-throated mountain-gem


Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
CITES
CITES
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Strisores
Apodiformes
Trochilidae
Lampornis
Binomial name
Bourcier
Mulsant
Synonyms
hummingbird
Lampornithini
Trochilinae
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
conspecific

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