Shining Honeycreeper

When to see the Shining 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 Shining Honeycreeper

The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Mexico, Colombia.

About the Shining Honeycreeper

The shining honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World in Central America from southern Mexico to Panama and northwest Colombia. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the purple honeycreeper, but the two species breed sympatrically in eastern Panama and northwest Colombia.

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Easily confused with

Purple HoneycreeperCyanerpes caeruleusThe purple honeycreeper is 4.5 in (11.5 cm) long, weighs 0.42 oz (12 g), and has a long black decurved bill. 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.