- Also see: Honeycreeper (disambiguation).
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See text. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The tanagers are a family, Thraupidae, of birds in the order Passeriformes. |
The typical Honeycreepers are small birds in the tanager family. Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The tanagers are a family, Thraupidae, of birds in the order Passeriformes. They are found in the tropical New World from Mexico south to Brazil. The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth specifically the Americas and Australia. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld
They occur in the forest canopy, and, as the name implies, they are specialist nectar feeders with long curved bills. Nectar is a Sugar -rich liquid produced by plants It is produced either by the Flowers in which it attracts pollinating animals or by extrafloral Anatomy Stegosaurus --> Beaks can vary significantly in size and shape from species to species
The four Cyanerpes species have colourful legs, long wings and a short tail. The males are typically glossy purple-blue and the females greenish.
The Green Honeycreeper is called a Honeycreeper, but belongs to the monotypic Chlorophanes genus. The Green Honeycreeper, Chlorophanes spiza, is a small Bird in the Tanager family It has a larger, stouter bill than the Cyanerpes group, and is less heavily dependent on nectar.
Species
- Short-billed Honeycreeper, Cyanerpes nitidus
- Shining Honeycreeper, Cyanerpes lucidus
- Purple Honeycreeper, Cyanerpes caeruleus
- Red-legged Honeycreeper, Cyanerpes cyaneus
References
- Birds of Venezuela by Hilty, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
- ffrench, Richard (1991). UserPolbot. -->The Short-billed Honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes nitidus) is a species of Bird in the Thraupidae The Shining Honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes lucidus) is a small Bird in the Tanager family The Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus is a small Bird in the Tanager family The Red-legged Honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small Bird in the Tanager family A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, 2nd edition, Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
External links
- Honeycreeper videos on the Internet Bird Collection