![]() Meet the Green Honeycreeper Charles James Sharp – CC BY-SA 4. The females have similar legs and feet to the males. ![]() The tail feathers and its flight feathers have a darker green color, and her eyes are a reddish-brown color. The female Green Honeycreepers are not quite the same as their male partners, with even more dull green plumage in general, and this blurs significantly more of their midsections. This bird’s legs and feet are both dark, and its eyes are red in color. The Green Honeycreeper's bill is sharp, pointed, and extremely straight, and it has a radiant yellow color. It is the only member of the genus Chlorophanes. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. ![]() There is an additional yellow-green tinge between the blue-green and black plumage on the chin and scruff. The green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) is a small bird in the tanager family. As referenced earlier, the head of the Green Honeycreeper is covered off with a dark hood and crown, while the two sides of the chin and throat are a dazzling blue-green. This bird’s upper wings and tail happen to be both darker than the rest of its body, with black edges on the flight plumes and feathers of the tail.īoth the wings and tail have an underside that is blackish as well. If you do not see a menu on the left, you may have arrived at this page from another site.A radiant emerald plumage mixes seamlessly with a more obscure green and dark tail, all covered off by a dark hood, which makes the Green Honeycreeper a delightful bird to see. Just moving into full male plumage while the bird in photo 7 is a juvenile with a shorter looking bill lacking the yellow on the lower mandible of an adult bird. The bird in photo 5 has a tick on its throat the bird in photo 6 is an immature male guatemalensis where the male, photo 10, is significantly greener than the other In contrast photos 10 and 11 from Honduras are of the sub-species C. Is slightly greener than the nominate sub-species seen in photos 1 and 4 which itself differs from the even bluer sub-species that are found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru andīolivia. The birds in photos 5 to 7 are of the sub-species C. It also has a black face and crown and has a redder eye than the female. The male has a similar colour of pointed bill, bright yellow with a black culmen but is a brightĮmerald to bluish green. ![]() Until one noticed the distinctive bill and the lack of blue on the head. In this particular flock, it could have been confused with the many female-plumaged Blue Dacnis The bill is slightly decurved and is yellowish below. The female is apple green in colour with darker wings and straw yellow on the throat and on the belly. Male but was in a flock of Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana, Red-necked Tanager Tangara cyanocephala and Green-headed Tanager Tangara seledon. The female in photos 2 and 3 taken at Ubatuba, was unaccompanied by the more colourful Spiza and was at a fruiting tree on Cristalino Lodge in a mixed flock with Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana, Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer and Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata. The male in photos 1 and 4 belongs to the nominate sub-species C. They are found singly or in pairs and often in a mixed honeycreeper-tanager flocks. It favours forest and secondary woodland, normally high in the canopy but it comes out in clearings and forest edges.įeeding mainly on fruit they also look for nectar from flowers and occasionally eat insects. The Green Honeycreeper is found from southern Mexico to the Amazon Basin with a disjunct population in south east Brazil.
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