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Purple Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes caeruleus
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About the Purple Honeycreeper
The purple honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) is a small Neotropical bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in Panama, on Trinidad, and in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Cyanerpes caeruleus
- Family
- Tanagers and Allies
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the tanagers and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Black-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
- Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
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