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Shining Honeycreeper

Cyanerpes lucidus

Range & Recent Observations

Shining Honeycreeperis a year-round resident and doesn't follow a migration flyway. See the Range tab for where it lives.

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About the Shining Honeycreeper

The shining honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World in Central America from southern Mexico to Panama and northwest Colombia. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the purple honeycreeper (C. caeruleus), but the two species breed sympatrically in eastern Panama and northwest Colombia. This is a forest canopy species, but also occurs in forest edges and secondary growth. The female builds a shallow cup nest in a tree, and incubates a clutch of two eggs. The shining honeycreeper is 10 cm long, weighs 11 g and has a long black decurved bill. The male is purple-blue with black wings, tail and throat, and bright yellow legs.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name
Cyanerpes lucidus
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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