Appearance
The blue-chinned sapphire 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.
Behavior
The song is a high metallic ''ssooo-ssooo-ssooo''.Habitat
It is a bird of forests and sometimes cultivated areas with large trees.Reproduction
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.Food
Blue-chinned sapphires feed on insects and nectar, mainly in trees but sometimes on vines or smaller plants like ''Heliconia''.References:
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