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| Cyanerpes lucidus (Sclater & Salvin, 1859) |
The Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus is a small bird in the tanager family. Philip Lutley Sclater ( November 4, 1829 - June 27, 1913) was an English Lawyer and Zoologist. Osbert Salvin ( February 25, 1835 - June 1, 1898) was an English naturalist. 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. It is found in the tropical New World in Central America from southern Mexico to Panama and northwest Colombia. 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. Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus, but the two species breed sympatrically in eastern Panama and northwest Colombia. The Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus is a small Bird in the Tanager family Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America.
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 the 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 with black wings, tail and throat, and bright yellow legs. The female has green upperparts, a greenish-blue head, buff throat and buff-streaked bluish underparts. The immature is similar to the female, but is greener on the head and breast.
The call of this honeycreeper is a thin high-pitched seee, and the male’s song is a pit pit pit pit pit-pit repeated for minutes at a time. Also see Honeycreeper (disambiguation. The typical honeycreepers are small Birds in the Tanager family
This species is similar to the Purple Honeycreeper, but the male of the latter species has a black belly, and the female lacks the blue tones of the female Shining Honeycreeper.
Shining Honeycreeper is easily distinguished from the larger Red-legged Honeycreeper with which its shares its range by the latter species’ leg colour and black mantle. The Red-legged Honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small Bird in the Tanager family
The Shining Honeycreeper is usually found in pairs or family groups. It feeds on nectar, berries and insects, mainly in the canopy. Insects ( Class Insecta) are a major group of Arthropods and the most diverse group of Animals on the Earth with over a million described It responds readily to the call of the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. The Ferruginous Pygmy Owl ( Glaucidium brasilianum) is a small Owl that breeds in south-central Arizona in the USA, south through to Mexico
References
- BirdLife International (2004). Cyanerpes lucidus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica ISBN 0-8014-9600-4
- Hilty, Birds of Venezuela by, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
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