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.
The Blue-chinned Sapphire hummingbird
is 8.9 cm long and weighs 3.8 g. The bill is fairly straight, with the
upper mandible black and the lower reddish. The male has mainly green
plumage, darker above, with white thighs, a forked metallic blue tail and
blue upper throat. The female differs from the male in that she has
green-spotted white underparts.
The Blue-chinned Sapphire hummingbird
feeds on
insects and
nectar, mainly in trees but sometimes on vines or smaller plants like
Heliconia. The
song is a high metallic ssooo-ssooo-ssooo.
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