Chlorestes notata
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The blue-chinned sapphire or blue-chinned emerald (Chlorestes notata) is a hummingbird that ranges from Colombia south and east to the Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, and Brazil. There have been occasional records from Tobago. For Brazil, the species' range is along the main Amazon River Basin, as well as the Atlantic Forest, both in the northeast, as well as far south on the southeast coastal strip, (an entire coastal strip, north-east-south of about 3,000 km (1,900 mi)). It is sometimes placed in the genus Chlorostilbon.
It is a bird of forests and sometimes cultivated areas with large trees. The female lays her eggs in a deep cup nest, made of lichen and other fine plant material and placed on a horizontal tree branch. Incubation is 16 days with a further 18–19 days to fledging.
Blue-chinned sapphires feed on insects and nectar, mainly in trees but sometimes on vines, shrubs, herbs, epiphytes or smaller plants like Heliconia. The song is a high metallic ssooo-ssooo-ssooo. The blue-chinned sapphire is 8.9 cm (3.5 in) long and weighs 3.8 g (1⁄8 oz). The bill is fairly straight, with the upper mandible black and the lower reddish. The male has mainly green plumage... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 2 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 4 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Blue-chinned Sapphire sighting in João Pessoa on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 68th most-seen of the 99 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Blue-chinned Sapphire in João Pessoa on a given day, against under 5% in March, May–July and October–November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blue-chinned Sapphire sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Blue-chinned Sapphire sightings, João Pessoa ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Belém (Brazil, about 30%) and Maceió (Brazil, about 20%).
Same family: Trochilidae
The closest relatives of the Blue-chinned Sapphire that you can see in João Pessoa (family Trochilidae, Hummingbirds) are Plain-bellied Emerald (about 50%), Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (about 30%) and Rufous-breasted Hermit (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blue-chinned Sapphire is recorded against all the birds logged in João Pessoa (21 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
