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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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When to see the Purple Honeycreeper
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Purple Honeycreeper
The map shades 11 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in France.
About the Purple Honeycreeper
The purple honeycreeper is a small Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found in the tropical New World from Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. A few, possibly introduced, birds have been recorded on Tobago.
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Easily confused with
Shining HoneycreeperCyanerpes lucidusThe shining honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family.
Short-billed HoneycreeperCyanerpes nitidusThe short-billed honeycreeper is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
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.
Side by side: Purple Honeycreeper vs Red-legged Honeycreeper
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