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Red-billed emerald

Chlorostilbon gibsoni (Fraser, 1840)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni) is a species in the family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes. Recorded adults weigh 2.61 g to 2.9 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni)
Photo: Neil Orlando Diaz Martinez from Bogotá D.C., Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the red-billed emerald

Weight
2.61 g – 2.9 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Nectarivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
woodlandsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
13 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
2src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Aerialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Partialsrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the red-billed emerald live?

Not recorded

What is the red-billed emerald?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

From the Wikipedia article “Red-billed emerald” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red-billed_emerald&oldid=1339797447), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the red-billed emerald endangered?

The red-billed emerald is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the red-billed emerald classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderApodiformes
  5. familyTrochilidae
  6. genusChlorostilbon
  7. SpeciesChlorostilbon gibsoni (Fraser, 1840)

Synonyms Chlorostilbon mellisugus gibsoni, Chlorostilbon prasinus gibsoni, Trochilus gibsoni

Other names and names in other languages (30)
  • colibrí maragda de GibsonCatalan
  • kolibřík GibsonůvCzech
  • emrallt picochWelsh
  • Rødnæbbet SmaragdDanish
  • RotschnabelkolibriGerman
  • GibsonsmaragdkolibriGerman
  • KolumbiensmaragdkolibriGerman
  • ruĝbeka smeraldkolibroEsperanto
  • Esmeralda piquirrojaSpanish
  • pensaikkosmaragdikolibriFinnish
  • Émeraude de GibsonFrench
  • zelena smaragdnicaCroatian
  • pirosfarkú smaragdkolibriHungarian
  • Smeraldo di GibsonItalian
  • Smeraldo beccorossoItalian
  • アカハシヒメエメラルドハチドリJapanese
  • raudonsnapis smaragdinis kolibrisLithuanian
  • RoodsnavelsmaragdkolibrieDutch
  • rødnebbsmaragdNorwegian
  • złocik czerwonodziobyPolish
  • esmeralda-de-bico-vermelhoPortuguese
  • Красноклювый изумрудRussian
  • Красноклювый изумрудный колибриRussian
  • smaragdovec suchomilnýSlovak
  • Crvenokljuni smaragdni kolibriSerbian
  • magdalenasmaragdSwedish
  • Kırmızı Gagalı ZümrütTurkish
  • колібрі-смарагд колумбійськийUkrainian
  • 紅嘴翠蜂鳥Chinese
  • 红嘴翠蜂鸟Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the red-billed emerald

Other species in the same genus Chlorostilbon.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the red-billed emerald?

An adult red-billed emerald weighs 2.61 g – 2.9 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the red-billed emerald endangered?

The red-billed emerald is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the red-billed emerald?

The red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni) belongs to the family Trochilidae in the order Apodiformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/red-billed-emerald

MLA

“Red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/red-billed-emerald.

BibTeX
@misc{red_billed_emerald_2026,
  title = {Red-billed emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/red-billed-emerald},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}