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Coppery-Headed Emerald

Physical Characteristics
 

  • Measures 7.6 cm in length

  • Weighs 3 g

  • Adult male has a dull coppery bronze crown

    • Bronze green back, nape, rump, and scapulars

    • Underparts bright yellowish metallic green

    • Retrices are bronze and white

    • Undertail completely white

  • Adult female has metallic green upperparts

    • Retrices are white and bright bronze

    • Underparts are dull white

    • Flanks are spotted with metallic green

Habitat
 

  • Lives in and near humid montane forests

  • Males are typically at the forest canopy while females are in the forest understory

Songs and Calls
 

  • Coppery-headed Emerald calls are high, thin and very fast

  • Its song is weak and warblerlike

Behavior
 

  • They forage for nectar at flowering trees and shrubs

  • Also they eat small athropods

  • Coppery-headed Emeralds are usually solitary except the male singing groups

  • The male singing groups sing and chase one another at middle heights in trees

Other Information
 

  • Its Latin name is Elvira Cupreiceps

  • They are rated as Least Concern

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