Green Honeycreeper

Chlorophanes spiza

The Green Honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. It the only member of the genus "Chlorophanes".
Male Green Honeycreeper  Chlorophanes spiza,Fall,Geotagged,Green Honeycreeper,Trinidad and Tobago,asa wright,black,green,yellow

Appearance

The Green Honeycreeper is 13–14 cm long and weighs 14 to 23 grams, averaging about 19 grams. It has a long decurved bill. The male is mainly blue-tinged green with a black head and a mostly bright yellow bill. The female Green Honeycreeper is grass-green, paler on the throat, and lacks the male's iridescence and black head. Immatures are plumaged similar to females. The call is a sharp "chip".
Green Honeycreeper and Silver-throated tanager, Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Ecuador Feeder shot. The green bird in front is a female Green Honeycreeper, the yellow bird in the back is the Silver-throated tanager. Chlorophanes spiza,Ecuador,Ecuador 2021,Fall,Geotagged,Green Honeycreeper,Milpe Bird Sanctuary,South America,World

Behavior

This is a forest canopy species. The female Green Honeycreeper builds a small cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two brown-blotched white eggs for 13 days. It is less heavily dependent on nectar than the other honeycreepers, fruit being its main food, with nectar and insects as less important components of its diet.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyThraupidae
GenusChlorophanes
SpeciesC. spiza