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title: "Blue-chinned Sapphire"
description: "Chlorestes notata — Vogels. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/blue-chinned-sapphire
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Blue-chinned Sapphire

> Chlorestes notata — Vogels. 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.

- Scientific name: *Chlorestes notata*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 763
- Wikidata: [Q690521](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q690521)
- iNaturalist taxon: [72661](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/72661)

## Names

- en: Blue-chinned Sapphire
- de: Blaukinn-Smaragdkolibri
- es: Esmeralda gorjiazul
- fr: Colibri à menton bleu
- pl: Szafirek modrogardły

## Countries with the most observations

BR (434), TT (180), GF (53), VE (15), GY (8), CO (6), PE (3), SR (3)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-chinned_sapphire

## Photo

![Blue-chinned Sapphire](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-chinned-sapphire/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244066867

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-chinned-sapphire?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).