The white-chinned sapphire (''Chlorestes cyanus'') is a species of hummingbird in the family

Trochilidae Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics aro ...

. It is found in northern

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. Its natural

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest,

subtropical or tropical dry shrubland Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The biome is dominated by grass and/or shrubs located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and t ...

, and heavily degraded former forest. This species was formerly placed in the genus ''

Hylocharis ''Hylocharis'' is a genus of hummingbirds, in the family Trochilidae. It contains two species that are both found in South America. Taxonomy The genus ''Hylocharis'' was introduced in 1831 by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie. The type speci ...

''. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that ''Hylocharis'' was

polyphyletic A polyphyletic group is an assemblage of organisms or other evolving elements that is of mixed evolutionary origin. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as homoplasies, which are explained as a result of conver ...

. In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the white-chinned sapphire was moved to '' Chlorestes''.

Description

The male has a prussian blue head and is green with a red beak while the female is brown and white with a black beak.

References

white-chinned sapphire Birds of Venezuela Birds of the Guianas Birds of the Amazon Basin Birds of the Atlantic Forest Hummingbird species of South America white-chinned sapphire Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot Birds of Brazil Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{hummingbird-stub