Glittering-throated Emerald Gallery

Chionomesa fimbriata

The Birds of the World website introduces the Glittering-throated Emerald with this descriptive information:  Despite its name, the throat of the Glittering-throated Emerald is not very helpful in its identification. Overall, this emerald is fairly nondescript, but the area of white on the central and lower underparts is fairly unique. Glittering-throated Emeralds frequent the borders of dry, humid, and gallery forests, and also inhabit second growth, open woodlands, and gardens. They feed on nectar from flowering plants of all heights, and even gather nectar from a perch. These aggressive emeralds breed throughout most of the year and have an insect-like song. The southeastern Brazilian subspecies (C. f. tephrocephala) is perhaps the most mobile and migrates southward along the Atlantic coast.

I met my first Glittering-throated Emerald on the morning of Tuesday, August 23, 2023.  Our Jeff Parker Tour group was staying at Southwild’s Santa Tereza Lodge and I watched this bird during one of my walks around the lodge.   On the river side of the lodge, near the pool, there are several hummingbird feeders– I saw this bird at one of these feeders.  For details of my Brazilian trip that include the sighting of this bird, look here.  Below is the only photo I got of this bird, and it is not really in focus, but good enough for identification purposes.