Purple Honeycreeper vs Red-legged Honeycreeper

Purple Honeycreeper

Cyanerpes caeruleus

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The purple honeycreeper is 4.5 in (11.5 cm) long, weighs 0.42 oz (12 g), and has a long black decurved bill. The male is purple with black wings, tail, and belly, and bright yellow legs. Females and immatures have green upperparts and green-streaked yellowish-buff underparts. The throat is cinnamon, and there is a blue moustachial stripe. The Trinidadian subspecies C. c. longirostris has a longer bill than the mainland forms. The call of the purple honeycreeper is a thin high-pitched zree.

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Red-legged Honeycreeper

Cyanerpes cyaneus

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The red-legged honeycreeper is on average 12.2 cm (4.8 in) long, weighs 14 g (0.49 oz) and has a medium-long black, slightly decurved, bill. The male is violet-blue with black wings, tail and back, and bright red legs. The crown of its head is turquoise, and the underwing, visible only in flight, is lemon yellow. After the breeding season, the male moults into an eclipse plumage, mainly greenish with black wings. Females and immatures are mainly green, with paler, faintly streaked underparts. The legs are red-brown in the female, and brown in young birds.

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Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez · CC BY 4.0

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