Green-bellied

Common name: Green-bellied Hummingbird
Scientific name: Saucerottia viridigaster
Clades: Trochilini - Emeralds

The Green-bellied Hummingbird is 8 to 10.5 cm (3.1 to 4.1 in) long and weighs 3.1 to 4.5 g (0.11 to 0.16 oz).

Green-billed Hummingbirds have rusty-brown rump and tail plumage. Despite its name, its belly is usually brown or buff, not green. While their bills are similar to those of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, they have a darker bill, a browner rump, and less rufous tail. Plantations, forest edges, and clearings are all home to this species. There is now a separate species of hummingbird found in the Tepui region, the Copper-tailed Hummingbird.

2 subspecies:

1. S. v. viridigaster
   Distribution is found on the eastern slope of the East Andes of Colombia in Boyacá, Arauca, Casanare, Cundinamarca, and Meta, southward as far as the Sierra Macarena in western Meta. Northward, it is replaced by iodura in the Venezuelan Andes

2. S. v. iodura
   Distribution Andes of western Venezuela in southwestern Barinas, southern Mérida, and Táchira, and also extreme northeastern Santander in Colombia.