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When to see the Short-billed Honeycreeper
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Short-billed Honeycreeper
The map shades 8 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 French Guiana.
About the Short-billed Honeycreeper
The short-billed honeycreeper is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Easily confused with
Shining HoneycreeperCyanerpes lucidusThe shining honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family.
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.
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.
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