Male © Peter Hawrylyshyn eBird S64915859 Macaulay Library ML 213060041
Female © fernando Burgalin Sequeria
Male © Carly Wainwright
Female © Christopher Becerra
Male © Matt Brady

Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus

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Identification

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Small, warblerlike tanager of foothills and adjacent lowlands. Found in humid evergreen forest and edge. Feeds at all levels, mostly in the canopy of fruiting and flowering trees and bushes. All plumages have more strongly decurved bill and shorter tail than the more common Red-legged Honeycreeper. Also note distinctive yellow legs. Male is deep blue overall with black throat and wings. Female has a necklace of bluish streaks across chest.

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