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Green Honeycreeper

Chlorophanes spiza

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestCup nestSmall · 19 g
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 1
Photo: yongestation · CC BY 4.0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 2
Photo: Stephen Lewis · CC0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 3
Photo: Stephen Lewis · CC0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 4
Photo: Isis I. Castro Alberto · CC BY 4.0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 5
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Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 6
Photo: Josh Noseworthy · CC BY 4.0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 7
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Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 8
Photo: Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 9
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), photo 10
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0

What the Green Honeycreeper sounds like

Sonogram of the Green Honeycreeper: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Esmeraldas: 7 km WNW Lita, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The green honeycreeper is 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in) long and weighs 14 to 23 grams (0.49 to 0.81 oz), averaging about 19 grams (0.67 oz). 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 similarly to females. The call is a sharp chip.

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When to see the Green Honeycreeper

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green Honeycreeper

Regular range

The map shades 17 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Colombia Panama Ecuador Brazil Trinidad & Tobago Peru Belize Honduras Venezuela Mexico Guyana Guatemala Bolivia Suriname French Guiana Nicaragua

About the Green Honeycreeper

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 is the only member of the genus Chlorophanes.

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Easily confused with

Golden-hooded Tanager (Stilpnia larvata) Golden-hooded TanagerStilpnia larvataThe golden-hooded tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) Red-legged HoneycreeperCyanerpes cyaneusThe 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. Cinnamon-bellied Saltator (Saltator grandis) Cinnamon-bellied SaltatorSaltator grandisThe cinnamon-bellied saltator or northern grey saltator is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Side by side: Green Honeycreeper vs Red-legged Honeycreeper

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